I’ve noticed that Crashplan isn’t saturating my 400kbps uplink (Northland Cable… just barely faster than satellite) even though I’ve given it no upload restrictions… I think the problem is with Crashplan’s De-duplication running too intense of an algorithm for my mere AMD Phenom II black quad core processor to handle efficiently. Setting data de-duplication to minimal allowed … Read more
NexentaStor 3.1 uses OpenSolaris kernel with Debian userland so neither the Solaris or Linux version of Crashplan works out of the box. But Chris Moates wrote an excellent post (removed link since it’s dead) on getting Crashplan on Nexenta by combining files from the Linux and Solaris version of Crashplan. This works except Crashplan can’t … Read more
Purpose: Determine fastest small NAS/SAN OS/Appliance software solution for home running under ESXi.Constraints: Candidates must support ZFS, be relatively stable (I narrowed down my candidate list by only choosing solutions that other people have used successfully), and be able to run CrashPlan for data protection. If you’re not familair with ZFS (Zettabyte File System), read ZFS … Read more
Finally finished my 189.7GB backup to Crashplan’s servers. Started uploading on July 25th and completed on December 17th. Didn’t notice too much of an internet slowdown thanks to Tomato’s QoS routing to prioritize traffic during the process. Outbound QoS rules
This is a great example of someone recognizing something we all hate and making it better. We all despise our thermostats. And for good reason. A simple task like changing the temperature shouldn’t be very confusing, but the thermostat designers have made it complicated. My first apartment had this Energy Star programmable thermostat. I think … Read more
Sadly, my favorite credit card, the Schwab 2% Cash Back (and no foreign transaction fees) is being discontinued. I loved being able to get a straight 2% back on everything without being concerned about which card I was using… so time to re-consider our credit card strategy. We already have the Costco Amex and Amazon … Read more
Since moving to North Idaho our internet is slow, we’re regularly saturating our 1/2 Mbps upload doing cloud backups and uploading pictures and videos which can make gaming or web browsing painfully slow and unreliable. I tried to get QoS (Quality of Service) working on DD-WRT but it can only have QoS rules based on … Read more
Seems every show I like gets canceled.
Time for our half-year asset review: Compared to June 2010 the KBB value on the 2003 Honda-CRV rose from $11,200 to $11,555. The 2007 Mazda 3 value went up from $13,520 to $13,990 with a total value increase of $825. This hardly offsets what our house did to our net worth but that’s another story. … Read more