June 30th, 2011 | 
This is my third Thinkpad – first from IBM and now Lenovo. They have been my laptop of choice for as long as I can remember. An X40, then an X60s and now this new baby. Not as stylish as those unibody Macs that almost everyone I know uses these days, but I’ll take [...]
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I had a long power outage yesterday that caused my servers to shut down. While they are on UPS’s, 5 hours or so without power ran ‘em dry. When I tried to hook my desktops up to them after the outage, I couldn’t access the shares one of the servers. I kept getting an [...] This is great (thanks Techking for creating it and @djilk for pointing it out). A humbling look at where computers started and how they advanced. There are many missing, including some of the more recent super-duper computers produced to work on some nasty computational problems and a couple built to become chess-masters and Jeopardy [...] It’s difficult not to respect all that Apple has achieved both as a computer company and as a consumer electronics crack dealer. They have great products and hugely loyal fans customers. Their terrific execution has allowed them to buck the trend of openness by providing what a wide swath of consumers want – a [...] Being a software guy myself, I often find that I dig a little deeper into the successes and failures of the software-oriented startups that I work with than I do with the non-software oriented ones. When I do, I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised, although I routinely am, at how often I come [...] When it comes to my data, I’m a suspenders and belt kinda’ guy. It can’t be in too many places or have too many layers of security. As with investing one’s hard-earned cash, diversification is critical to success. As such, I have loads of internal backup and security methods that are part of my [...] I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a netbook to use as a cross between my iPhone and my desktop. My trusty Lenovo X60s has filled that role for years, but the combination of my crack-addiction-like need for new technology combined with the allure of a netbook’s lighter weight has been my [...] I was an early adopter of the Terastation when it was released a few years ago. The Terastation is a pretty typical (well, now pretty typical) SOHO-type NAS that is a fairly inexpensive solution to getting loads-o-disk space on your local network. It’s not screamingly fast, but it’s got loads of features including a [...] I mentioned that I worked for DEC to someone recently and they had no idea what I was talking about. Granted, the person was young, but he was an adult. Funny how the second largest computer company in the world in its time, and the inventor of the mini-computer could be so quickly forgotten. When [...] I mentioned last week that I was moving this blog off of an internal server to an externally-sourced one at 1&1. Further, that I chose to use a VPS, or Virtual Private Server, for the installation. For servers that don’t require loads of disk space, CPU power or memory, a virtual server makes loads [...] |
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