July 2005 - Posts
Playing with Flickr tonight... I just discovered that Flickr lets you post blog entries from Flickr to just about any blog engine, including .Text. So this is a test to see if it really works...
This is Kona, our Black Lab.
I wrote about it before, but it warrants more attention: The online SciFi novel being presented as a blog titled Simon of Space is simply fantastic.
Start reading it today at http://simonofspace.blogspot.com.
Every day I look forward to a new installment, and each one is as good or better than the previous. I can’t wait to hear how this story turns out.
This is an example of why I’m such a fan of Mark Cuban: These are the good ole days!
Poor Steve (Mr. Furrygoat). Like many geeks out there he bought a RAID5 system thinking it was a silver bullet providing massive reliable storage for all his precious data (precious to him, due to the time it took to back up all his DVDs, not necessarily because the content iteself is precious).
A drive failed in the array. The rebuild took over a day for only 300GB of stuff; that’s in addition to the time it took to get the replacement time. Steve was smart enough not to risk total loss by not using the array while it was in its compromised state.
We are facing a brave new world with the combination of massive amounts of storage in the home and horrible technologies for managing and dealing with it all. A RAID 5 rebuild of 300GB takes over a day. Copying 1TB over a 1.5Mbps broadband connection will take 2 months. Over a 100Mbps LAN it will take a day. Over Gigabit Ethernet still takes 2.2hours. Think about it.
I Am A Cheeseburger (
http://mfdh.ca/) is an immensly talented author who has been publishing some very creative things on various “Blogs”. I first discovered his
Darth Vader's Blog this spring and now am thoroughly enjoying
Simon of Space, a science fiction adventure published as a blog. Really great stuff. Read it.
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