kz's blog

People were sad and over all not having good days because of too much trust in the black box. ... Sure we were using raid5, but the data itself was not n+1 in that particular environment, and for that reason bad things were bound to happen.

So I think I have a condition that could be known as Microsoft Tourettes Syndrome. It occured to me while trying to open a docx document. For those of you who don't know. docx is that new MS XML format that's been getting so much press lately but that pretty much no one uses yet.

So I had the pleasure of going to OSCON this year and seeing a few hero's in the OSS world. I got to meet one of the people that inspired this site, Dan Langille. Though he said he'd never heard of this site (ok this isn't really a big site at all), it was fun to finally meet him. He was the one who I learned a lot of my basics on FreeBSD on via freebsddiary.com years ago (like late 90's).

I usually don't get nigerian scam e-mails, but I got the first one in a while and I found it entertaining: ---Begin Email--- From: NASH MAHAR Subject: Dear Beloved Dear Beloved As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is NASH MAHAR I am a merchant of Oman nationality but presently residing in london.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

These days my life has been all about backups. I've set up two backup systems recently, one at home and one at work. The one at work has just been a Veritas Netbackup system. Netbackup is great if: You're backing up to tape and need offsites. You're familiar using it.

Actually since I last posted I've gotten married, and been working a ton at my new job. Also I haven't had as much time to do much with this site but I've been doing new things piece by piece. I was starting to get tired of the look of the old site so I managed to get a new look. So far I've got mixed reviews with about half the people I know liking it and not really caring for it. I guess that's the fun in having a site that's mine that isn't really that used. Slashdot couldn't pull something like that off! Then again, they make a lot more money off this than I do.

Well it looks like I've been accepted by the fine folks at seasscp. I'll still still need to fully configure the new server. Also, I have a new job. Whoohoo! After being at my current job for 4 years...and really looking for something worth moving to I found something. Looks like I'll be working for a preveyour of background checks now. Fun stuff!

Well I've sent some e-mails to seaccp.org. So far no response but I'm going to be persistant like they suggest on their site. I have a server just about ready and I can do additional configuration there. A few people have expressed content with the current site and I see no dissent. If danimal doesn't come up with a new theme then I'll probably work with what I have here. There are some issues with css on this theme even tho it's based off the spreadfirefox site. I'll have to work on some of the placement of some of these boxes, as well as the colors. What I did here took me about 6 hours from the original theme.

Half of the reason I updated this site was to post blogging entries about whatever so now I can! Anyhow last week I got an upgrade to my old TiBook. The TiBook worked out pretty well but like all things it had some issues. During it's life it had about 3 issues: -Bad pixels on the display (which were replaced courtesy of applecare) -An iffy cdrom drive -cracking on the plastic edge of the case -poor wireless reception The iffy cdrom drive wasn't so bad. Writes worked about 50% of the time, and sometimes it would get testy if I inserted media by spitting it back out at me, or it would seem to get "caught" and do the same.

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