Here’s the tech scenario: I now have seven active Seagate Barracuda SATA2 500GB drives in a RAID5 array, using a Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 card. This setup gives a total capacity of 3TB and can survive one drive completely dying.
Under Windows, drives are formatted with a Master Boot Record partition map. This format imposes a 2TB [...]
In an effort towards achieving additional data security and fault tolerance, I recently purchased a Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 PCI Express card for my media server. The card supports up to 8 Serial ATA drives in various RAID levels. It’s an x4 card electrically, but fits into a PCI Express x4, x8 or x16 slot.
While [...]
I’ve made a few statements in the past – both in real life and online – about how certain Web sites seem to attract certain types of users and commenters. There’s a very clear relationship between the audience a site attracts and the comments contributed by users. One can clearly go from quality, interesting comments [...]
Also tagged commenting, facebook, idiot, myspace, something awful, youtubeDave and I came up with this creative public shaming today at lunch. Full credit to Dave for the actual work.
This is what happens when you don’t pay your hosting bill for several months. I’m sick of your excuses.
Chris Fitzpatrick Owned 2 (NSFW text)
Also tagged angry, chris fitzpatrick, dave lahn, ownedI don’t really have much in the way of new or interesting music to recommend to people. Phil’s Thursday posts of random greatness pretty much have that covered, and my iTunes library contains quite a number of bands that are distinctly on the side of “emo“, “screamo” or “god why do you have that.” Sure, [...]
Also tagged a day to remember, escape the fate, friday, illscarlett, link, mp3, underoathMy good friend Phil has joined the ranks of the whiny bloggers union and installed WordPress. He will likely complain about things even more vocally than I, perhaps in a more emo-tastic way. Go visit him and convince him to keep things online, since he gives things up quickly if not encouraged.
Also tagged blog, emo, wordpressI’ve decided to take a look at my Webalizer statistics for the months of April and May to figure out what people are searching for. It also helps me tailor the content on this ugly green and beige page to what people might be interested in.
If you’ve got a question about something I’ve written, or [...]
Update: Sold.
Details follow. If I don’t get a response from here or the Facebook crowd, this is going on uw.forsale and perhaps Craigslist in Kitchener.
Model: RCA F27650, 27″ CRT TV
Details: TV has been in use for approximately 4 years. Has component, S-Video, and three composite inputs. Also has a 1/8″ stereo headphone jack [...]