backups
You may notice that commenting is currently disabled, and many old Coding Horror posts are missing images. That’s because, sometime early on Friday, the server this blog is hosted on suffered catastrophic data loss. Here’s what happened: 1. The server experienced routine hard drive failure. 2. Because of
programming languages
It’s pop quiz time! Put away your notes, and let’s begin. a) Do you own this book?* b) Do you know who this man is? c) Does this FAQ look familiar to you? 3) OUR LITTLE FRIEND, THE COMPUTER 3.1) Are there any OSes that don’t
storage
I’ve always been leery of RAID on the desktop. But on the server, RAID is a definite must: “RAID” is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. The different schemes/architectures are named by
hardware
I was thrilled to discover that Santa Claus left a little unexpected present on my doorstep on Christmas Eve: the two Lenovo ThinkServers that I ordered for stackoverflow.com! They weren’t supposed to arrive until sometime next week. I immediately began unboxing the servers with all the eagerness of