I haven’t been posting a lot… partially to keep the blog a bit more official while looking for employment and partially because I’ve been busy.
work updates: So I’ve been working at Via, from home, as a contractor. I’ve been doing that since Feb. Working with friends and doing mostly LAMP development (thankfully). The only downside is that it’s a smaller company and can’t afford to pay me what other places can.
This video involves a not-so-subtle analogy…. I give it a clever rating of 3.8 stars (out of 5), but I liked it enough to post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHty_S0TU0
Petition to save Internet Radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetr
I’ve been reading up on copyright laws in America and internationally and it seems blatantly obvious that the extra costs and constraints put on internet radio are one symptom of a larger problem… that our copyright system is outmoded by the technologies of the past 20 years. That’s a larger problem for another day {read “Free Culture” for more information}.For now… lets look at Internet Radio.
So, due to a degraded HDD in my RAID5 array, I decided to build a new array.
I bought 4 320G Seagate drives… those drives have many benifits, not least of which, a 5 year warranty.
I already have a 3ware escalade RAID controller (7506-4LP), one of the best options for a hardware RAID controller.
Instead of building another RAID5, I chose to build 2, RAID1 arrays. I chose this because it’s much easier to buy 2 hard drives (upgrading one mirrored pair) than to buy 4 hard drives (to upgrade a 4 disk array).