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04/02/2003 Archived Entry: "Questions of reality & geekdom"

I came home today pretty late, and ended up watching the last half of DonnyDonnie Darko (thanks Jen) with Jen. It deals with a number of "what is reality?" topics: the trials of being schizophrenic, time travel, parallel universes, God. Well worth seeing, but if you are one of those people who end a movie by saying, "well that was too weird for me", don't bother. You aren't going to 'get it' anyway. Think of it along the same vein as the ending to The Sixth Sense.

Geekly stuff: How to add a new (IDE) hard drive to a linux box

• Install the drive
  
• 'fdisk /dev/hdx', where x is a, b, c...p depending on how many drives you already have in the box (ie. the first HD is hda, second is hdb)
  
• Make a partition (n) or more than one, write your changes to the partition table (w)
  
• Format it to the file type you want with 'mke2fs /dev/hdxD' where D is the number of the partition you created in the previous step (ie. first partition is hdc1, second is hdc2)
  
• Edit /etc/fstab and create an entry for those partitions (ie. '/dev/hdc1 /mnt/mp3s auto auto,user 0 0'). This step is optional, though if you skip it you will have to mount the partition as root every time you want to use it
  
• Reboot to test the above step