Server hard drive crash, upgrades and more such fun…
The Fun Begins So on Thursday 12/30/2011 I was in the basement and I heard a pretty loud noise coming from the server rack. I thought I was just losing another ...
Category: Computers
iomega NAS and CrashPlan Backups
I bought a CrashPlan (a local company) subscription a little while ago and managed to back up my data by mounting my old FreeNAS shares on my Windows 2003 serve...
iomega StorCenter ix2-200 First Impressions
My iomega NAS arrived at work yesterday and I started using it last night. Here are some first impressions. Storage Capacity: They sell it as a 2TB unit. But it...
I have a storage dilemma
So I have this FreeNAS server that I built a while ago. I’ve been pretty happy with it but recently it lunched it’s OS drive. I farted around with i...
Thoughts on why I think Android Phones are so cool
When I was growing up I read a lot of Science Fiction. I still do actually. Lots of things that I read about have come to pass. Science Fiction has been an amaz...
Perl on my Droid!
Sitting at lunch today I was musing about how cool it would be to be able to program on my phone in Perl. I have one interpreter on the phone already – Fr...
My Droid does apps
Here is the current list of apps I have on my Droid and my comments about them – It’s a long list… Roughly grouped by category. Rated 1 –...
Geeking Out
I just created an xls spreadsheet in OpenOffice on my Ubuntu laptop, put it in my Dropbox folder, installed Documents To Go on my Droid, and edited the spreadsh...
Bought a Droid
Wow, a blog post. It’s been a while. If you read my Facebook wall, or follow me on Twitter, you know I have a Droid now. I love it. One of my friends aske...
Anti-DRM Screed
Look! A blog post! This morning I posted a link to an anti-DRM comic on my Facebook feed. There was a comment thread that I wanted to save, so I decided to put ...