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Vermyndax on January 16th, 2011

I’m guessing from the amount of hits on the Drobo article from 2009 that people are still having problems with Drobos rebuilding the array in a decent amount of time. Ever since I got a DS4600 using standard RAID-5 I’ve been quite happy. Rebuild times on a 6TB volume are about 2.5 hours. Note: the [...]

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For some bizarre reason, the thought at the top of my head last night at bedtime was… “I wonder if sometimes… open source developers deliberately code bugs or withhold fixes for financial gain?” If you don’t follow what I mean, here’s where I was: often times, large corporations or benefactors will offer a code fix [...]

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Vermyndax on October 28th, 2009

For those of you who follow my adventures here, but not necessarily my adventures over there, you should be aware that we’ve posted NO CARRIER Episode #11.  This episode is very special to my heart because it’s the first show we did in our new studio (Whitey is still over Skype though).  I think the [...]

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Vermyndax on October 21st, 2009

Tony Maro, the CIO of Evrichart (and also my boss from my old job prior to NASA) was interviewed by ZDNet! Tony is an awesome, knowledgeable and forward-thinking guy.  He’s way ahead of his time in terms of CIO leadership and the IT industry.  He makes this look easy and roots his decisions in common [...]

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Vermyndax on October 6th, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife One of the industry buzzwords that needs to go to the grave is the user “experience.” Don’t quote me here, but I recall this buzzword being developed by Microsoft as part of the marketing campaign behind Windows XP.  XP was supposed to be “experience” or “expert” or “Xtra stuPid [...]

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Vermyndax on November 3rd, 2008

I’m all about negativity today. Sorry. Anyway, I’ve had something nagging at me for a while now and I think I’ve just figured it out. Powershell is Microsoft‘s answer to having a dumb command line through the Win95 – Win2003 years and it’s quite powerful, as the name implies. Microsoft likes it so much that [...]

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Vermyndax on May 12th, 2008

I’ve just posted NO CARRIER Episode #2: Diagnosis: Penguin. Yeah, this is the one I said you open sourcers might like. It has the telling of a Linux success story, one that I’m sure many of you already understand the model, but perhaps the suits do not. Check it out! NO CARRIER site. Bookmark to: [...]

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Vermyndax on May 11th, 2008

Those of you who read the open source parts of this blog may be interested in NO CARRIER Episode 2: Diagnosis Penguin. It’s a little over an hour long, but the second half of the podcast is dominated by an interview with a company who found Windows inadequate for their needs. It’s a wonderful Linux [...]

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Vermyndax on April 30th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia #477454 – Insulting source code – Debian Bug report logs …ran across this bug filing in my morning travels.  What a scream.  I love it when nerds get personal and start using source code to do battle.  That’s one of my favorite parts of Linux – just think of all the copies [...]

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Vermyndax on April 29th, 2008

plasma and the screensaver « ChaniBlog So, while trolling the feeds and coming across Chani’s post about this screensaver… and what amounts to one of the stranger use cases I’ve seen in a while… there’s this discussion about some plans to integrate plasma widgets into kdescreensaver and whatnot.  Yeah, she has a use case to [...]

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