I am a pilot that was on the first American C-17 aid flight into Nepal. This is what we brought.
Interesting cargo from Fairfax, VA.
Redit Discussion about this trip.
I have no issue as a US Taxpayer seeing our money spent in this way. Much better to be helping others, than the other things our DoD...
DVDisaster – Replacement for ddrescue for optical media?
The manpage says:
DVDISASTER – data loss/scratch/aging protection for CD/DVD media
I’ve used it here to recover a few old DVDs that couldn’t be read by ddrescue at all. It failed with a few other DVDs too, so it isn̵...
Below is the 4th of 6 questions from a reader. I definitely don’t have all the answers, but I’m not short on opinions. ;)
Previous articles:
Part 1 – LVM+JFS+RAID | Part 2 – Service Virtualization | Part 3 – Virtualizing Media Storage
duijf asks:
Q4: Maybe I’ll host the email for my own d...
Below is the 2nd of 6 questions from a reader. I definitely don’t have all the answers, but I’m not short on opinion. ;)
Part 1 – LVM+JFS+RAID | Part 2 – Service Virtualization | Part 3 – Virtualizing Media Storage | Part 4 – Hosting Email
duijf asks:
Q2: I read everywhere about Virtualis...
Today I wanted to add another OS to a netbook, an Asus Eee. My common practice is to boot a gparted ISO from a USB flash drive, move some data and partitions around and add a new logical partition to the end of the extended partition space. Write everything back out to disk. Then I’d boot th...
Below are a few incidents that I’m personally aware of which impacted a few different projects. Some are from my personal desktop to production dispatching systems with 20K+ users to some that impacted a space shuttle launch data.
People like Top 10 Lists, but I could think of only 9 near disas...
Your computer guys are always talking about some coming disaster and trying to get budget for a DR, Disaster Recovery failover location. There never seems to be enough funds. Heck, you may be lucky to get backups rotated to an offsite location.
A story in Dallas Morning News, Water-main break cripple...
Here’s an insightful article at the Boston Review on How Software as a Service Takes Away Your Freedom. SaaS has been hyped as the way to deploy solutions quickly, pay for only what you need, when you need it, and avoid all the infrastructure costs. There are some important things that the hype...
This is a series of articles around building a new Intel Core i5 server for use in a small business. Please start with New Server Build Part 1
Part 1 – Parts is Parts
Part 2 – Build
Part 3 – Burn In and OS
Part 4 Conclusion
In Part 3, I ran a few tests. They all completed clea...
The entire world knows that Haiti was hit by an magnitude 7 earthquake recently. This was a terrible disaster.
The Haitian government said in this article that they can lead the rebuilding effort.
Haiti’s government is ranked 168 out of 180 on the Corruption Perceptions Index. Should a governm...
Recently, I’ve been running IT for a small business. Backups and Disaster Recovery are critical for us AND our customers. With our background in enterprise solutions, we were limited in knowledge for low-end solutions that didn’t cost an arm AND a leg to implement. High end solutions fro...
Background for SaaS
SaaS, Software as a Service, is the rage in the computing world today. Every big company is getting into it and using Web 2.0 as the initial buzzword. I read a few IT news aggregaters every day and each of them constantly link to SaaS websites. You know them too. A short list:
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Most new IT efforts have a Green Component to them. At a minimum, the amount of power used is to be minimized for any new equipment. Other projects involve consolidating servers with a 4:1 or higher reduction. That reduction, when combined with fewer total number of CPUs, hence fewer licenses, more e...
What’s Your Backup Plan?
Over the next few days and weeks, we’ll try to discuss what you need to plan in advance and what to take with you when a disaster occurs in your part of the world.
Part 1-the scenario
Part 2-Preparation is Key
Part 3-System Backups
Don’t think disaster ...
These are the main links I send friends:
Slickdeals
BensBargains
Woot
/.
Freshmeat
Lifehacker
Linux.com
http://www.voipgo.com/
http://www.hotwire.com/
Weather-Marietta
http://bigal.jdpfu.com/
Security Now!
SwansonRules
http://manifestinvesting.com/ – [[NAIC-based|http://www.bette...
These are the main links I send friends:
slickdeals
bensbargains
woot
Slashdot
Freshmeat
Lifehacker
Linux.com
VoipGo
Hotwire
WUnderground-Marietta
BigAl EV
SecurityNow from GRC.com
SwansonRules
ManifestInvesting | NAIC-based Investing Site | M* Dashboard:TinCup | M* Dashboard: Solomon...
