31 Mar 07 The Pirate Bay finds permanent hosting solution!
“Today we announce that we’re moving some of our servers to the North-Korean Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.” Wait. What? Those crazy Swedes!
All I have to say is… wow.
Wow as in… you gotta love April Fools 
It’d be scary if this were true, thats for sure.
27 Mar 07 Speakeasy acquired by Best Buy
Found on digg.com:
One of the largest and certainly most popular DSL providers in the United States has been acquired by Best Buy, according to the two companies. The plan is to run the company as a subsidiary, and promote its business services.
Wow, what a scary thought. BB buys Speakeasy. I’m not terribly surprised. When I worked there about 2 years ago the business was suffering. They had just moved (consolidate properties), their wimax experiment was failing and their prices were stagnant. Sometimes premium isn’t better. I give it another 2 years before the tech supported will be outsourced to either Canada or India. Well there goes the neighborhood….
27 Mar 07 I’ve had it with Bluehost…
Considering I once worked for a web host… they suck. Sure $6.95 per month is great but their servers are slow and then it has this buggy CPU usage meter. The idea is great but the implementation sucks.
If you are reading this that means you are reading it on the new host. Which, when I access my blog at least, is a helluava lot faster then Bluehost.
Bluehost made me Blue…. hopefully my new host, Dreamhost, won’t.
EDIT: Netfirms was even worse. Their environment is anything but pleasant. I can’t believe a web host can screw up FreeBSD so badly.
16 Mar 07 Oh! Oh! I get to try something exciting next week!
Yes yes. The nerd in me is anticipating and jumping in joy. The last time I felt like this is when I had to wait for my iMac to come so I could start playing around with OS X. Next Wednesday the parts will come pouring (literally) into my office. We had a bit of a…. data problem… two weeks ago that caused me to basically spend almost 90-100 hours at the office in one week. It wasn’t as if there weren’t any backups its the people responsible over the [tape] backups (a different division, and country… yes you know which one) are not the brightest of the bunch. This caused mass panic and people to whip out POs and credit cards as if it was nothing (age old expression, in Holland at least, “when the calf has drowned, the well is closed”).
So 7 days later and next week I get to create a 6 TB (8 x 750gb drives so 5.8 TB to be exact) backup server running Solaris 10 and ZFS. Both choices were my idea. Reading the ZFS white papers, it sounds like an amazing file system. No more volumes but storage pools and the dependency on hardware raid controllers goes bye bye. Not to mention the file system makes snapshots as well (much more graceful then making snapshots on an UFS or ext3 system). ZFS looks terrific. Furthermore it isn’t endian dependent (Sun calls it endian-neutral) making it easy as pie to move over to a different platform (as ZFS is opensource… who knows where it could end up) if the need arises.
Hopefully I can some pics when building the box. I know… lame… but hey… the nerd in me can’t wait to try out this technology.
More on ZFS:
ZFS: the last word in file systems
Solaris ZFS Administration Guide
ZFS, Sun’s Cutting-Edge File System: (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability) & (Part 2: Ease of Administration and Future Enhancements)
