Kernel 2.6.x and firewire drive

To make external drive work correctly in Kernel 2.6 linux (i.e.
avoid sbp2 aborting error and hanging data transfer), the module.conf
must be altered to include “options sbp2 serialize_io=1″ (also the sbp2
must be compiled as modules rather than embedded into kernel). In
Gentoo, we can add a file (whatever name) in /etc/modules.d/ folder for
that line, and run “modules-update” to generate the new modules.conf
file.

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Library

Though it is a small library, but it has some good books on development and bioinformatics. The funny thing is the library is 100% self managed, meaning that staff can pick up the book as long as it is available on the shelf and return whenever the book is not used. The borrow/return registration is recorded by borrower hisself, so it is totally dependent to self-consciousness.

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