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12/22/2007
Corporate Entity…
Businesses don’t succeed or fail because of the actions of the “corporate entity.” Businesses succeed or fail because the individuals with influence either do the right things or they do not.
Great Band…
I was catching up on some Smallvilles during breakfast this morning and the episode I watched had some amazing music. Now Smallville *usually* has great music which is one of the reasons I like the show but this music was outstanding and oddly it was something I had never heard even a little bit before. So I waited patiently for the end of the show for them to tell me who it is and it was….
I looked into it, it is Juliette Lewis the actress…. Yes that Juliette Lewis
The one who was in Starsky and Hutch, Old School, Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear, Christmas Vacation, and tons of other stuff. She is one of those actresses that you almost certainly have seen somewhere at some time…
Well she is an amazing singer/songwriter and her band rocks; lead guitar wails. To be honest, when I started listening to their first CD on Rhapsody it reminded me very much of the sound and flavor of a Guns and Roses concert I went to back in about 1987 or so in a relatively small club called the State Theatre (now called The Filmore Detroit) in downtown Detroit (the part of downtown that you used to be very scared to walk around in but is ok now that they built a couple of stadiums right there) before they hit really big. But then some of the other stuff reminds me of early Sinead.
I have been listening to Linkin Park music solid now for the last 3 months because that is the mood I have been in, this actually provoked me enough to order the CDs from Amazon _and_ I downloaded the first/second album through Rhapsody and burned them so I could listen in my truck while driving around.
Outstanding, highly recommend. I am quite upset with my British friends (especially my Aussie/British friend who never responds to her emails I send her but dings my blog occasionally with comments (which that is better than nothing)) for not telling me about her because she hit the UK Singles charts with several songs but never hit anything in the US.
The first two albums are tough to get so get them from Rhapsody for like $16 USD for both.
12/20/2007
Reflection…
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
– Mark Twain
Leaking memory…
That is some ugly looking code, to be sure. As written, the function really doesn’t do anything except reliably leak memory.
– Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]
Your heart…
Temper your emotions with logic…
…but listen to your heart.
– I have no clue who said this but I love it
12/17/2007
Come on Western Digital Part Deux
So I spoke a little too early on my last blog post about my new Western Digital MyBook World Edition.
I ran into some huge issues with it, I haven’t gone looking for a firmware update yet but that is my next step. However, the issue I found shouldn’t be in any version of the product so I wouldn’t be betting on it being fixed in a firmware update. Anyway I set up several RichCopy[1] threads to copy data to the unit. They seemed to be going ok only after a very short time, they started going slower and slower. I started at about 35% utilization on my network on my PC and it tapered down to about 5% and the copies took a couple of days to finish. Now only that, but whole chunks of files were missing. Now it could be a problem with my PC granted, however an identical copy to one of my Windows Server 2003 R2 Servers (Super Fast Virtual Mofo if you recall…) and it went very fast (Consistently 40%+) and finished within a couple of hours.
I haven’t seen any issues if single threaded copying is what I am doing. Sad really, I do so little single threaded.
joe
[1] If you don’t know what RichCopy is, I am sorry… If you do know what it is, it is version 2.51 so while I only get 3 threads, it isn’t calling the mothership and bailing out on me. I just spawn 5-10 instances of it and everything is good. I love RichCopy, kudos to Kenzaburo.
12/15/2007
Come on Western Digital…
So I am setting up my new Terabyte MyBook from Western Digital….
Complaints so far
1. The little getting started leaflet basically just says install the CD and use our software…
My problem with that is I hate installing software on my PC that I don’t really want and don’t want that software. So I check my DHCP reservations and sure enough, I find it pops up as MyBookWorld using my scope options… cool. I look in DNS…
2. Doesn’t register its own DNS Address nor ask DHCP to do it for it.
Grrr.
I go to the IP address in a web browser and voila it pops right up. Very cool. I start going through configuration.
3. It asks for an admin ID and password… Great. No clue, the little get started leaflet says nothing about it.
I search the internet and find it in about 33 seconds. Thank you yet again Google. For the curious, the default userid is admin, the default password is 123456
4. For TZ it doesn’t give standard names, it says things like America/Detroit.
Ugh.
So now I try to create a new user, I like to use $joe for anything that will be admin like actions and since this is for backups, that is an admin action.
5. Can’t use anything but letters and numbers for userid….
Come on, really?? Seriously???
So now I say, well I guess I better use joe…
6. Userid has to be between 5 and 20 characters
M u s t C o n t r o l B l o o d P r e s s u r e :o)
So I choose something else and it has me set the permissions for the default share named PUBLIC. Default permission is none, very good default. I pull up the security sheet for the PUBLIC share.
7. Everyone FULL control…
KAPOW!
8. No mechanism to see who is attached to the NAS.
9. Nothing to see the state of use of space by share.
10. No mechanism to maintain file level permissions via web manager
11. Look at permissions through Windows Explorer and see Everyone Read and Execute and a group called www-data(BACKUP\www-data) with Full Control and a group called www-data(Unix Group\www-data) with Read and Execute…
wtf
12. I can’t monkey with those permissions even though it lets me pick users defined on the NAS. Attempts result in access denied.
So much for this being a cool little small business file server. Not that I needed that, but come on. This wouldn’t have annoyed me as much except for 1-10. To use different perms you need to use different shares. A bit annoying, I like the idea of a single share with permissions on subfolders.
Its not all bad, for the money I still think it is a steal and it is pretty fast and a heck of a lot easier than setting up a file server be it Windows or BSD. Also if my house ever catches on fire or starts flooding I can grab it and throw it under my arm and run with it in case the stuff in the fire safe for some reason doesn’t make it.
joe
12/14/2007
Secret to a good relationship…
“The secret to a good relationship is not compromise. It is to do what makes you happy regardless of the consequences and then find a mate who finds joy in your happiness.”
– probably misquoted from some random TV show
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