Wow, what a day! Some great stuff today It ended with configuring a kickstart file, starting an unattended installation via PXE by referring to said kickstart file on an http-server. Before that we were playing with partitioning, making swap, encrypting with cryptsetup and LUKS. Also very interesting. After we learned …

This is the third book in the Malazan world. The previous ones by Ian are Night of Knives and The Return of the Crimson Guard. Beware, this post will/may contain spoilers. I'm now roughly 41% through the book (reading it on my Kindle) and I must say that the …

Been reading a bit, is nice to get to read something other than fibre channel :) 1.) The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison If you like Douglas Adams this should work for you too. It's quite old books (first one is from '61) but the language does not feel archaic …

From about 2/3 to the end: And as usual - there's lots of spoilers below. If you haven't read the book yet, I'd advise you not to read the below. Part1 Part2 Part3 There is actually quite a lot going on about the First Shore. The malazans found the kids …

Part 3 Review Part 2 Part 1 I think this book is easier to read than the previous ones. For some reason I kind of like all the thinking, pondering and analyzing that the characters do. They grow on you? I wonder if it's just the book or maybe the …

Read about 1/3 of the book now. Here is part 1. The Review There's a lot more 'Books' in this one compared to the other one. I'm already at the fourth one. This also means that there is a lot more jumping between sub-stories in this book than all …

Warning: this post contains spoilers if you haven't read Dust of Dreams or the previous books in the series Malazan Book of the Fallen. This post is part of a series, I will create additional one throughout the book (basically I'm just testing which is best: use one post and …

Grabbed this book a week or two ago and have been steadily pulling myself through it. Not done yet, some 300 pages left. I have crappy memory so if I write down what's going on right now, maybe that will help me remember the book later :) It is the 9th …

** 2011-08-18 Just updated the link to the HP forum. I also wrote a primer to Data Storage. Just listened to this podcast episode #96 of Infosmack on theregister (about storage). Very interesting to hear what some really experienced people say about storage and the future. Like hybrid disk drives becoming …

Where to find them? Where are some good second hand shops, new book shops, any tips on buying from the Internet. Number 1: the library. The library system here in Finland is actually quite awesome. You can go to their website and search and reserve books (costs 50c this year …