#book Articles


  • 2011-12-14
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RHCSA – Rapid Track – Day 3

Wow, what a day! Some great stuff today It ended with configuring a kickstart file, starting an unattended installation via PXE by referring to said kickstart file on an http-server. Before that we were playing with partitioning, making swap, encrypting with cryptsetup and LUKS. Also very interesting. After we learned …

Book Review - Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont

This is the third book in the Malazan world. The previous ones by Ian are Night of Knives and The Return of the Crimson Guard. Beware, this post will/may contain spoilers. I'm now roughly 41% through the book (reading it on my Kindle) and I must say that the …

Science-Fiction Books

Been reading a bit, is nice to get to read something other than fibre channel :) 1.) The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison If you like Douglas Adams this should work for you too. It's quite old books (first one is from '61) but the language does not feel archaic …




Fantasy Book Review - Steven Erikson - The Crippled God - Part 1

Warning: this post contains spoilers if you haven't read Dust of Dreams or the previous books in the series Malazan Book of the Fallen. This post is part of a series, I will create additional one throughout the book (basically I'm just testing which is best: use one post and …

Fantasy Book Review - Steven Erikson - Dust of Dreams

Grabbed this book a week or two ago and have been steadily pulling myself through it. Not done yet, some 300 pages left. I have crappy memory so if I write down what's going on right now, maybe that will help me remember the book later :) It is the 9th …

Learning Storage

** 2011-08-18 Just updated the link to the HP forum. I also wrote a primer to Data Storage. Just listened to this podcast episode #96 of Infosmack on theregister (about storage). Very interesting to hear what some really experienced people say about storage and the future. Like hybrid disk drives becoming …

Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books in Helsinki

Where to find them? Where are some good second hand shops, new book shops, any tips on buying from the Internet. Number 1: the library. The library system here in Finland is actually quite awesome. You can go to their website and search and reserve books (costs 50c this year …