Andrew Mobbs

A very pleasant evening. Didn't get on a punt in the end, but spent the evening chatting in or near the Mill to kaet, ptc24, meirion, and keirf (who it was good to meet for the first time I recall).

Auf der Maur Lightning is my Girl is probably written about a drug, but I can't work out which one.

Argh. Why don't people understand that with a sufficiently write-intensive application, RAID 1+0 will be faster than RAID 5 for the same number of disks; as well as incidently offering better redundancy, better failure-mode operation and better recovery time? Capacity is cheap, IOs aren't.