Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-31

  • In Farmington #
  • Bored beyond belief talking about b usiness continuity and disaster recovery #

I hate failing at Googling

I read about some neat software awhile ago. In order to bring better signal-to-noise meaning to email, the software gives email users a fixed number of points each day. Then people assign point values to emails they send, effectively weighting them. This way you can assume that when someone spends 20 of their daily 30 points on an email for you, its super important. And you can see based on trends that you may need to spend 5 points to have someone even notice your email. It’s definitely available as an outlook plug-in/addon as well.

Problem is I never bookmarked it and I can’t freaking find this product on Google! Ahh! 1 hour of searching and the signal to noise ratio is off the charts when searching for email, collaboration, etc.

Help.

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-30

  • Can’t believe twitter IM is working #
  • Too much soda #

ZFS rocks my socks off

This Slashdot article really got me thinking. 1.4 Terabytes for $2,000. Then you can start adding drives at will to increase your storage without incurring any penalties.

Get a CoolerMaster Stacker enclosure like this one (just the hardware not the software) that can hold up to 12 SATA drives. Install OpenSolaris and create ZFS pools with RAID-Z for redundancy. Export some pools with Samba for use as a NAS. Export some pools with iSCSI for use as a SAN. Run it over Gigabit Ethernet. Fast, secure, reliable, easy to administer, and cheap. Usable from Windows, Mac, and Linux. As a bonus ZFS let’s me create daily or hourly snapshots at almost no cost in disk space or time.

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-29

  • L:home, very tired #
  • l:work, getting caffeinated #
  • Listening to Dark & Long by Underworld (dubnobasswithmyheadman album). What a way to start the day #

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-28

  • Dunkin’ Doughnuts coffee is > all #

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-27

  • 10 hoursa #
  • Of sleep is better than most everything #
  • Just had an amazing mexican breakfast with chorizo #
  • Pp #
  • Filing a complaint with the better business bureau on how much 1800flowers.com sucks ass #

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-26

  • l:chicago=chicago,IL #
  • reading somethingawful forums #
  • Had waayyy too much to eat for lunch. I think the double grilled cheeseburger with hot peppers did some damage #

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-25

  • @work, Waiting for the twitter IM client to come back #
  • eating my tasty brownbag lunch #
  • Taking a lunch break with the King #

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-23

  • Taking a mental health day #
  • Also recovering from a WoW session #
  • Feeling full #