Benjamin BryanI messed up my zpool with a stuck log device, and rather than try to fix it I decided to wipe out the zpool and restore the zfs datasets using CrashPlan. It took CrashPlan roughly a week to restore all my data (~1TB) which is making me consider local backups. All permissions intact. Dirty VM … Read more
Drudge Report. Run from an apartment, website never redesigned, HTML edited by hand, three man operation, yet it gets 2 million unique visitors per day and drives more news traffic than Facebook or Twitter… Here’s a rare press conference speech and Q&A session by the reclusive Matt Drudge from 1998.
I’m in the progress of switching my ZFS Server from OpenIndiana to OmniOS, mainly because OmniOS is designed only to be a server system so it’s a little cleaner, and they have a stable production release that’s commercially supported, and it has become Gea’s OS of choice for Napp-It. One of the last things I … Read more
Just saw on STH that the HP Microserver Gen8 specs have been released… Intel Pentium G2020T (2 core, 2.5Ghz, 3MB, 35W) OR Intel Celeron G1610T 2GB ECC memory (up to 16GB, 2 slots) One PCIe expansion slot. Dual gigabit ethernet ports (332i adapter) Dynamic Smart Array B120i/ZM 150w power supply HP iLO4 remote management port … Read more
For Year 2013 (June 2, 2012 to June 1, 2013). Notes: I think $0.56/mile is pretty good for city driving. Insurance went down (for reduced mileage maybe?), we ended up getting a credit so some of 2012 should be allocated to 2013. Service has been our biggest expense. This year was new tires, … Read more
Model UV-3R+ UV-5RA VX-7R VX-6R Brand BaoFeng BaoFeng Yaesu Yaesu TX 6 M no no 30-59MHz no TX 2 M 136-174MHz 136-174MHz 137-174MHz 137-174MHz TX 1.25 M no no 222-225MHz 222-225MHz TX 70 CM 400-470MHz 400-480MHz 430-470MHz 430-470MHz Wideband Receive No No 0.5-999MHz 0.5-999MHz Channels 99 127 900 900 TX Power 2 Watts … Read more
Good news for the cheap photographers, Yahoo! wants back in the photography sharing game. Flickr has redesigned its website and is now offering 1TB of Free photo storage to anyone. You can see on my grandfathered Pro account I have only used 0.035TB up in 2 years! To give you an idea of how many … Read more
Over the last few days some of you noticed a 403 forbidden error from time to time. So I’d login, check the Apache error logs and see this entry “(13)Permission denied: /home/benjamin/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable.” Well the permissions were set, I had the executable +x bit for www-data … Read more
The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its … Read more
Gas Price History from GasBuddy.com Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE) History from Google Finance Fuel prices at the pump are highly correlated with energy sector index funds (which invest primarily in oil since that’s the way the energy market is weighted) so if you want to smooth out your fuel budget you can do your … Read more