Simple Thoughts (Technology) – Newsletter for December 28, 2010

Now, Palin claims her record-setting ‘refudiate’ gaffe was only a typo

WASHINGTON – In July, Sarah Palin hit the headlines when she compared herself to William Shakespeare, the literary giant who also created words, after coining a word ‘refudiate’ on Twitter.

However, the former Alaska Governor claimed on a recent episode of her reality show ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ that the word was just a simple typing error, … Read more >>.

How to parition a new drive before adding to RAID array in Linux

Run the following command, after reading the notes below:
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb

Notes:
1. This copies the parition information of sda to sdb. Be very careful with the drive letters, otherwise you might end up overriding the partition of a good drive with the partition from a new drive.
2. sda is the drive from which …. Source  : Gaea News Network.