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Running AbstractSpoon ToDoList under Wine

ian – Thu, 2007 – 08 – 16 21:31

I'm using Ubuntu Feisty with the Wine that's installed with it - version 0.9.41. I'm still using a relatively old ToDoList 4.10.2. I also tried version 5.3 - it started up fine, but would page fault while loading some of my task lists.

Copy these dll's from a Windows installation into the ToDoList directory:

  • mfc42.dll
  • mfc42u.dll
  • msxml2.dll
  • msxml2r.dll
  • msxml3.dll
  • msxml3r.dll
  • msxml.dll
  • msxmlr.dll

FIre up winecfg. Under the Libraries tab, add overrides for msxml and msxml3. Their load order should be (native, builtin).

What I learned from setting up ZFS on my fileserver

ian – Fri, 2007 – 07 – 06 04:30

I've been using Linux with a software RAID5 array for my fileserver for a few years now. It's pretty good. I've had one drive failure in about five years. But, of course, I filled it up (again). I decided to switch to ZFS for the most recent array for a few reasons:

  • I believed that I could add drives to the RAID array whenever I wanted to
  • I liked the idea of end-to-end checksums
  • It's supposed to be more robust against power failures than RAID5

In particular, I liked the idea of having two parity drives (RAID6 or raidz2).

This is what I learned.


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