Interesting Snippets from 2012-07-04

• Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux

  Once a remote prospect, an important barrier in disk storage has become a reality: the venerable master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme can't fully handle disks larger than 2.2TB (2TiB). With disks as large as 3TB readily available and with much larger RAID arrays common, alternatives to the MBR partitioning scheme have become important to understand. The heir apparent is the GUID Partition Table (GPT).

• Why learn C? - O'Reilly Radar

  Though C has been around for decades, it's still consistently ranked at the top of any list of programming languages used and studied today. I recently spoke with David Griffiths (@dogriffiths), coauthor of Head First C, about the reasons for C's continued (even increased) popularity and what his book offers in such an established market.

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