Thursday, December 23, 2010

Increasing a Hardware RAID 1 Array Size

In this post, the poster is asking whether or not you can increase the size of a hardware RAID 1 array by installing larger drives in half of the array, rebuilding the array, installing larger drives in the other half of the array and rebuilding again.  The answer seems to be no, you can't.

Rather, after googling around, the answer seems to be that you need to create a image of your system; replace all of the drives in the array with larger ones, create an new, larger and empty array on the new drives; and restore your image expanded it to fill the larger array.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Tooltips With Just CSS

Over at Six Revisions, Alexander Dawson has posted an article to how to create tooltips inside the browser using nothing but CSS.  There is a debate in the comments about whether or not this is correct usage of HTML and/or CSS.  Check it out.

CSS Resets

Prior to reading Michael Tucker's post at Six Revisions, I had not heard of a 'CSS Reset' before.  If you haven't either, Tucker explains the concept:
When you use a CSS "reset," you’re actually overriding the basic stylesheet each individual browser uses to style a web page. If you present a website with no CSS whatsoever, the site will still be styled, to a very limited extent, by the browser’s default stylesheet. 
Edit:  Part 2 has now been posted.

Edit:  Part 3 now posted as well.