Backblaze built their own crazy 67TB 4U servers made up of 45 1.5TB drives configured in 3 RAID6 pods of 15 drives each. All I can say is WOW, when are they getting into selling these things? I’m thinking of this setup combined with my hope that Oracle GPLs ZFS and I’m having a home network storagasm.
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog.
So this is pretty cool. Harvard Med School did a study that says that fasting during sleep deprivation helps to reset your clock (and let’s face it, Harvard Med School probably knows about sleep deprivation).
My only flaw with the suggestions is that trips are pretty much the only time I can plan to fast. The other times that I end up staying awake for a long time tend to be random, work, parties, etc…
How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night | Wise Bread.
I’ve been poking around looking at 24 and 30 inch monitors. A few things jump out quickly in this kind of search, the first is that there aren’t actually very many 2560 res monitors out there (because really, what’s the point of a 1920 res 30″ monitor?) I have no idea what’s up with that, but there’s basically five or six choices and none of them are particularly new.
The second point that just baffles me is the disparity between the new HDTVs and large monitors. You basically have the really good Dell 24 and 30 inch screens, the Apple [...] Continue Reading…
Summary of a conversation at work…
Me: “Okay, you know how in the real world every building has an address?”
PersonNotGettingDNS: “Yea”
Me: “Okay, the internet is like that, but on the internet you only need to know the name of a place to get to the address. So, DNS is like a cabbie. All you have to say is ‘Empire State Building’ and the Empire State Building could have moved to Brooklyn and the cabbie would still get you to the Empire State Building. And it doesn’t matter at all that it has a whole new address. So when we say [...] Continue Reading…
Via IM:
Jesse
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/
nick
oh man
i’m not even going to bother
to read that
since its a 2009 draft
Jesse
read it
its interesting
nick
which means its not going to happen til 2030
at earliest
in IE31
The big blue/white theme with the Twitter bird was spitting out raw PHP in the RSS feed so I reverted it to this. I will try to debug the other theme, but I am trying to get out the door to the Gold Cup.
It’s funny, for the most part I’ve gotten over my obsession about not sharing local computer data with big entities. I let my crash reports send their info, I store my RSS feeds on a server, etc. But Nike+? What?!?? No WAY am I letting anyone know how out of shape I am.
Over the last decade or so, I’ve written CMSes from scratch, used other peoples’ CMSes and talked about them to death. This is one of the best overviews I have ever read. It’s intended to be in the context of Plone, but can easily be read in a general context:
Plone and its competition: choosing a CMS — Martin Aspeli.
Nick sent this my way and it spurred an interesting IM discussion. The piece is about a month old, but it’s fascinating. The basic gist is that even with single payer (i.e. government) health care, we will still have crazy expenses so long as doctors are incentivized to provide more care.
When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen—and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care—you come to realize that we are witnessing a battle for the soul of American medicine. Somewhere in the United States at this moment, a patient with chest pain, or [...] Continue Reading…