Understanding RAID (Part 2)

This week's article is going to continue in identifying some of the Terms and Concepts of Hardware and Software RAID, specifically the remaining players of RAIDs 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 0+1. For detailed information on RAID 0, 1 and 5, please see Understanding RAID (part 1).

Industry Trends: Plug and Play

Technological advances over the years have driven the manufacturers of information technology products and systems to add "plug & play" features into their systems as much as possible. The industry direction has been to lower the level of technical knowledge/skills required for system installations and configurations. However, the by-product of this has been to add a tremendous amount of overhead into all aspects of networking.

Red Hat Linux 9 Review

Red Hat installations are becoming pretty boring now - always the same thing - which is a very, very good sign.

How to Market your Programming Skills

Marketing and selling are hard things to do deliberately. We all do it all the time unconsciously, but to actually ask for money is often difficult for those not used to it.

What is the purpose for your site?

I had a meeting with a client a few weeks ago and I shocked myself completely. The client requested that I design a Flash intro for his site. Before I could think twice the words had already come out of my mouth.