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In an utterly fascinating paper (only if you’re a Geek that is.  And if you’re not, what the hell are you doing reading this blog?) titled Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population [PDF] Google researchers discovered that self-monitoring data isn’t useful for predicting individual drive failures and that temperature and activity levels do not [...]

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Thanks to Chxta, I found a link to Guardian (UK) article by Charlie Brooker lambasting those funny but invidious commercials we’ve all seen by now.
The first shot across the bow:
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they [...]

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Holy shit!  I may be a Johnny Come Lately, but did you know MIT has many of its courses online?

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Of my workgroup:

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I’ve decided to go minimalistic with the blog theme.  I like the original Tonus, but this, this is … good!  Don’t you think?  Minimalism, hmmm yes, I like it.

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Nothing lasts forever, yes, but one can try. This blog post lists several (really good) ways to make digital photographs last.  Forever!

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it …
You know the rest.  To me, AD backup and even more importantly, restoration, is a mission impossible.  Not literally, of course, but there seem to be many intricacies enough so that one can get really messed up if not careful.  Jorge hits one out of the park with [...]

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Sometimes, magazines like Information Week contain actually useful information!  This tip (which I’ll be quoting verbatim) is actually very useful as part of a security plan for a wireless access point:
Limit Those IP Addresses
When one of your computers connects to your network your router [Huh? Oh, the access point, which is acting as a router, [...]

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Reading Joe Richards’ blog this morning (great guy, lousy politics! I’d still like to buy him a beer), I caught his treatise on developers versus operations. Most computer people are one or the other, the best are both. I have to admit that, in the Windows world I have suddenly found myself, I [...]

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At long last, it seems my Exchange problem is on its way to getting resolved. Get this: it may not be Microsoft’s fault! Gasp. Well … , apart from the crappy documentation that should have pointed in the right direction, that is; but one cannot fault Jabba The Hutt for being a pig.
From Chad [...]

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