Better idea, mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n2 -l1 /dev/ssd --write-behind --write-mostly /dev/loop0
Raid1 with a ramdisk and the SSD, ramdisk will queue up writes and flush them to disk, if you happen to accumulate writes to the same portion, both of them won’t happen to the ssd :)
Wondering if that would actually work..it would be pretty cool.
Thanks to Anonymous Coward @ Slashdot (Comment)
When you say “That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all year!” or any of the year-related phrases, how do you use ‘year’?
A.) Year is the current year (January ‘09 – December ‘09)?
B.) A sliding year (a year leading up to that point, ie. February ‘08 – February ‘09)?
C.) The fiscal year (for varying forms of fiscal!?)?
I prefer B, myself.
A gentleman just came in to the shop I work at and sold me a 2009 calendar, ‘The Way We Were,’ containing old photos from c. 1908 to the 1940s.
Interestingly, the calendar has a short list of the years when this calendar was good in the past, and when it will next be good.
Here’s the list for 2009:
1891, 1903, 1914, 1925, 1931, 1942, 1953, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1987, 1998, and 2015.
Pretty cool in conjunction with the photographs, including one showing where the Liberty Theatre’s original entrance was.
From this Slashdot post
Anonymous Coward:
This reminds me of a joke where how students are treated in high school is compared with their treatment in college. We keep telling students to “behave” in elementary school, where “behaving” usually means keeping quiet, not causing trouble, not questioning the teacher. Then we wonder why people turn apathetic in college…
Well, it seems that the next thing after traditional anime and manga to come from Japan is: light novels.
The name is a pretty good description of the books themselves. They’re smaller stories, often split across volumes, in handy-sized forms. Both the Full Metal Panic (Wikipedia) series and Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (Wikipedia) are actually based around light novels by the same names.
So, at A Book For All Seasons (A Book For All Seasons) in Leavenworth, WA, I grabbed up the first volume of a light novelization for Pita Ten (Wikipedia). The book itself was a about 20% thinner than some ‘young readers’ books, and about 3/4 as tall. For being a light novelization based on the manga by Koge-Donbo, it was remarkably good. What it primarily covered, however, was things that came up before the original series, which seemed like an excellent fit. Plus, the light art was excellent, too.
Now, seeing as how this was printed in March 2008, the second volume will likely be available by March 2009.
I read the first 2/3 of the book this morning. It felt good to be reading something anime/manga-related again.
So, over a year since I’ve last blogged. Heh, whoops.
Decided to get back into it, as I set up WordPress for the department I’m working for. I’m not sure which I like better. I’m kind of tempted to make my own server and host my own WordPress blog, but, I guess we’ll see. Have to wait until I’ll have some always-on connection after I leave school, I’m sure.
So, if you looked over my previous post, you might have noticed (at the very end) a discrete mentioning of Harvest Moon: Magical Melody.
Harvest Moon is a farm-simulation game: grow crops, work on your husbandry with cows, goats and sheep (the latter two in later games) or with chickens. However, in the console-based incarnations of the game, you also woo a potential spouse (which is required in atleast two/three of the games) and get a child. Before HM: A Wonderful Life for the GameCube, you couldn’t really do much at all with your child. He’d just stay basically as a toddler.
But, with A Wonderful Life, you got the ability to begin influencing your child’s future among quite a few possibilities. The drawback with A Wonderful Life (and Another Wonderful Life, the version that lets you play as a girl) is how restricting it is. You -must- marry in your first year or your game ends. Also, the original edition of AWL had a very short number of years for you to play, along with the horrible other things taken out of the line (proper festivals, 30 day seasons, some other things).
Magical Melody? Ahh, boy oh boy did Marvelous Interactive [mmv-i.net, Japanese] and Natsume [natsume.com, English, Flash Heavy] make up for A(nother) Wonderful Life! It is very cel-shaded and very toony looking, but having proper village festivals back along with the ability to now raise and train multiple horses for racing has made it more than worth it. Plus, much to my happiness, many characters from past games have been brought back, including Nina, one of my favorite potential wives from essentially the first two-ish console-based versions of Harvest Moon (HM SNES and HM64). Plus, they finally incorporated playing both the boy and girl player characters into the game, so you no longer have to buy a second console game if you want to play the girl’s side of the story (which..I will…undoubtedly…try at some point)
Now, here is the list of consoles that Harvest Moon has been on:
SNES, Nintendo 64, PSx/PSOne, PS2 (twice), GameCube (thrice), and soon to be Revolution/Wii, if I remember correctly.
On handheld:
Original GameBoy (twice?), GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance (twice), Nintendo DS (soon, if not out by time of this post).
So, as you can tell, it has quite a good line of previous versions going for it. I’ve played the SNES, N64, one of the PS2 versions, and two of the GameCube versions along with Harvest Moon GB2, though I’d have to check my cart collection to confirm that.
And just because I’m strange, here are the names, in order to what I posted for console and handheld:
Console: Harvest Moon (SNES), Harvest Moon 64 (N64), Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (PSx), Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland (PS2), Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life SE (Special Edition) (PS2), Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GC), Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life (GC), Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (GC)
Handheld: Harvest Moon GB (GameBoy), Harvest Moon GB2 (GameBoy), Harvest Moon GBC (GameBoy Color), Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town (GameBoy Advance), Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town (GameBoy Advance), Harvest Moon DS (Nintendo DS)(soon!)
Yeah..so I’m a Harvest Moon fanatic. I remember playing the SNES version, I was really emotional after I played the game to the end…it didn’t allow continuing past the end of the game and I had probably been obsessed with the game for about a week before completing it. I don’t have a destructive obsession like that anymore, but the HM games definately have a special place in my heart. Now ridicule me if you like, but it won’t matter because I play what I like. I’m not about to pretend that I only play bloody slaughtering games. There isn’t much engaging behind most of those.
…And just as I was doing some research for this post (just before this sentence here), I found out that the next-gen HM game will be Harvest Moon Online…Oh My God, thank you. Goosebumps all the frick over. It’ll probably be on PC, with the possibility of Xbox360, PS3 and Nintendo Revolution/Wii. I’m going to go spaz in the corner now..eee, HMO..
Notes: The original house behind Harvest Moon was Victor Interactive, which begot Marvelous Entertainment, which begot Marvelous Interactive.
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