If you're making a game that requires a lot of tiles (ala Scrabble) then buy small seramic or glass wall tiles, as used for bathrooms and kitchen walls. They go down to about 1" square, look good, and a whole sheet/box of them is quite cheap.
Anyone picking up one of Banks books expecting a throwaway SF paperback is in for a nasty surprise. I think they are excellent, but not what I would call easy to read, they demand a little more thought and attention than, for example, a David Weber SF book (not that Weber books are bad or anything).
I just finished Use of Weapons (it's still on shelves in New Zealand). That ending is disturbing.
What I use for backups is a separate box that updates itself using rsync every night. It exports the backups via a read-only NFS server. Doing a full restore involves:
Drop a rescue CD into the machine.
Format all drives.
Mount drives in the corrent places, but under/mnt.
"cp -a" the files back from the backup.
Run lilo.
Reboot.
It's more complicated, but not a lot more complicated.
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If you're making a game that requires a lot of tiles (ala Scrabble) then buy small seramic or glass wall tiles, as used for bathrooms and kitchen walls. They go down to about 1" square, look good, and a whole sheet/box of them is quite cheap.
Anyone picking up one of Banks books expecting a throwaway SF paperback is in for a nasty surprise. I think they are excellent, but not what I would call easy to read, they demand a little more thought and attention than, for example, a David Weber SF book (not that Weber books are bad or anything).
I just finished Use of Weapons (it's still on shelves in New Zealand). That ending is disturbing.
Drop a rescue CD into the machine.
Format all drives.
Mount drives in the corrent places, but under /mnt.
"cp -a" the files back from the backup.
Run lilo.
Reboot.
It's more complicated, but not a lot more complicated.