philpem’s blog

Some more fun on Fedora… I’ve just upgraded my desktop PC to Fedora 8. Now, this machine has some oddities — namely, two separate SATA controllers (a VIA that’s built into the chipset and a Promise FasTrak that’s a separate chip on the motherboard). The problem with this arrangement is that the scan order depends [...]

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… Or more influenced by xkcd comics maybe. Picture this: Big sign. Two red seven-segment displays, incrementing daily, and a big red button at the bottom. Text: “n DAYS SINCE SOMEONE WONDERED WHAT THE BIG RED BUTTON DID.” Yep. Boring. Simple minds and all that.

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