Here's an AppleInsider article that claims to have information from inside Danger and Microsoft.

Additional insiders have stepped forward to shed more light into ( Read more... )

More links on the T-Mobile/Sidekick disaster.

This article on Engadget is probably the best of the lot -- it blames it on Microsoft outsourcing an upgrade to the storage-area network without making a backup first. You would think... And there may be another disaster in the making, if their $50 all-you-can-eat plan comes out and ( Read more... )

The Device, Patented Process Indicating Apparatus - GizmodoBilled as "possibly with world's first hand-crafted luxury computer peripheral" - The Device is a status-indicator for virtually anything your computer monitors. Connecting via USB, packaged software can customize what The Device tracks. Examples include CPU usage, Counterstrike frags, Ebay ( Read more... )

Sun's Project Blackbox -- datacenter in a container - EngadgetWe're typically not of the ilk to bust out a post on a Sun datacenter solution or yet another clustered supercomputer, but technically Sun's Project Blackbox is portable -- if you consider a shipping container portable. We wouldn't believe it if it were anyone else, but the gimmick here ( Read more... )

... part mumble. Just before leaving for six days of Westercon, I very sensibly put my backup drive in another room and made a second set of backups (just of the important stuff: /home, /local/starport, and /mm/record) on yet another ( Read more... )

My order, of three replacement UPS batteries, arrived from APC this morning. One is for the BackUps 500 I've been having trouble with in the office. The other two went into the two BackUps Pro 650's that I salvaged from the discard pile at work. I may do a little shuffling-around.

This afternoon, after a successful demo (and a ( Read more... )

My new backup script seems to be working -- about 8 minutes to mirror a day's changes in over 100GB of files. Still needs to be parametrized, then I'll write it up and put it up on my website. And I really need to move the Debian mirror to a larger disk on the gateway; it's occupying 70GB that I'm going to be needing soon.

Finally got my daily backup script up and installed on the fileserver. Basically all it does is mount the backup drive and all of its partitions (which are identical to the ones on the main drive), mirror each partition with rsync, and unmount the backup drive.

It still needs to be parametrized better -- right now it's specialized ( Read more... )

While the flower_cat and chaoswolf were off at Baycon and Furcon meetings (I just barely missed them coming back from my walk), I mostly stayed home and puttered. Got the new patio chairs assembled, upgraded the memory on super_star_girl's computer ( Read more... )

Sometime yesterday evening I mounted the USB drive, fired off my backup script, and went out for dinner. Made the mistake of leaving the drive online when we went back to Consonance (more about that in a later post) for the dead dog Schroedinger's Cat filk. This morning, I found that the drive was busy, and the locate database ( Read more... )