Where Computers Meet Conviction — Coram Deo
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
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Aetna Notification wrote:@autoemail.aetna.com> @autoemail.aetna.com>New Communication on Aetna Navigator®Dear BENJAMIN,You have a new communication to view on your secure Aetna Navigator® member website. Click here to display your online communication.(snip useless info) *** On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Benjamin Bryan wrote:@b3n.org> @b3n.org>Please send the contents … Read more
An educational behind the scenes look at how incoming mail is processed