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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Backing up a small business, Help wanted
Does anybody have any thoughts on how to successfully backup a growing small business? We have a total of about 100GB that we currently backup on a daily basis to an external 2.5″HD (very portable). The amount of backup storage we need is increasing at a slow but steady rate, so that we will be exceeding it within a few weeks. When we do, I have to manually archive files on the client computers to reduce the amount of data that gets backed up. This is very time consuming and defeats the purpose of the automated task idea. In addition, there is only one backup set. The data gets overwritten/added on to on a daily basis. FYI, we run Dantz Retrospect to pull the files from 5 clients and one server (all OS X).
So here are the two goals we are trying to achieve:
1) Increased backup security by going to 2 or more sets (Right now there is only one medium, and once that gets overwritten or if it should ever break, there is no other backup layer)
2) Increased storage capacity to allow for future growth (Right now we have to either manually archive or buy a bigger HD each time we exceed our current GB limit)
Any thoughts on the subject are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim.
New Banner and Other Whatnot
It was high time we replaced that picture of Richmond, VA with one of our own fine city, I installed a new banner.
The original photograph was taken by our own Tim Eian. I did a quick crop and just the tiniest levels adjustment and tossed it on-line. Many thanks to Tim for the photo!
Read on for an overview of coming minor changes. Continue reading New Banner and Other Whatnot
MacBook and Parallels
Just got done reporting on this on my blog. Check it out.
Watch the World Cup in ASCII
That’s right, live streaming ASCII straight to your terminal. I’m probably ruining my chances of actually seeing this by posting it. I can’t imagine that they’re prepared for too much traffic. Who can pass up “The best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII!?”
telnet ascii-wm.net 2006
Of course, there's always: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
All hail Patrick & Bethany!
Today is their big day. Congratulations and all the best for a wonderful and inspiring future together as husband and wife.
Kickin’ It Old School #12
Found via Uncrate, there’s a guy who makes Nixie Wrist Watches. At first it looks a bit odd with just a two digit display, until you realize that the thing has a tilt sensor built in. Rotate your wrist one way for hours, and slightly differently for minutes.
At $395, it’s kind of expensive. Then again, it’s not like Nixie tubes are actually made any more.
I’m still tempted to find or build a Nixie wall clock. Preferably something with big digits that you could read from 20 feet away.
Linux Public Web Terminal
The Dunn Bros on Washington Ave (north loop) has two Linux-based free web terminals. They’re well done too. The interface is KDE 3.3, but they’ve limited what the user can do so that you can basically open Firefox. Right-clicking is disabled, they’ve limited the KDE menus and the menus within Firefox as well (no ‘open location’ and browse the system).
Everyone go buy a cup of coffee there to thank them for using Linux.
patrickrhone.com on SVN
I feel like Michael and I have just been knighted by the queen! My website, co-designed with Michael, has been picked as one of the Screens Around Town by the 37 Signals guys. This is a regular feature of web design they deem to be top notch and examples of “Getting Real”. It is quite an honor.
How do you know when you’re old?
When you can’t hear the ring tone any more. Looks like students have started using a ring tone that adults can’t hear to receive text messages in class. Also, racist chanting at soccer games is being silenced by confusing fans with delayed echos of their own chants. Perhaps acoustic research is the next big frontier.