Fermilab: still kicking ass

Via slashdot - Last week, they announced finding a slight preference towards matter in matter-antimatter production. The articles today indicate that the asymmetry is significant enough to indicate that there may be up to 5 Higgs bosons, not just one.

Holy fried retinas, Batman!

DealExtreme is selling a 3500 lumen LED emitter. Yowza. 60 bucks. 3.5 amps at 33 volts nominal. Bring a car battery. Actually this might be competitive with a good car headlight with the right optics.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.39872

RAID project, phase 2

I created a basic 3 drive RAID5 set (this took 3 days to initialize the drive) and copied 2 drives worth of data to it (another 2 days since I tried to do it over the network before giving up and moving the drives physically into the machine (they were going there anyway) and copying the data directly). That freed up the two source drives, so those have now been repartitioned and added to the array, and it's reshaping itself. It says it'll take about 4 days. Perfect timing, it will be just about done when I get back from Duckon.