Have you ever wondered why the pictures you take with your digital camera look different on your computer than they looked on your camera’s display screen? And the colors are different again when you look at the same picture on a friend’s computer? The same is true for the displays on televisions, cell phones, ipads, [...]

The software RAID management utility in Linux, mdadm, continues to exceed my expectations when it comes to powerful features. This weekend I discovered that in addition to creating arrays it can grow them (OCE) and even migrate to different RAID levels (RLM) under some circumstances. We use enterprise-grade hardware in the server room at Category [...]