Come on you know the lines...

In 2001, my late friend (who would later succumb to complications of his diabetes) and I were attacked on the street by thugs. They tried to rip his insulin pump from his body, thinking it was a pager, as he begged "I need that to live!" It's great now to see that we have thugs in our own government doing the same thing. He must be rolling over in his grave. Part of me is almost glad he doesn't have to be here to see the insanity that we now regard as the 'new normal'.

I cannot praise this versatile little free* program more. I have given up on personal RAID. I can't afford RAID 5, which is the only RAID I might feel assurance from. I started playing with the original consumer Promise cards and dealt with the headaches. Even the Medea RAID 5 units I used at work became a hassle. I learned the hard way not to trust these plug-and-play RAID 1 units offered by LaCie and the like. I had one where the controller circuitry failed, but both internal drives (and ostensibly the data on them) were intact... But they were housed in an proprietary format, so I had no way to get the data off even if i pulled the drives out. I sent it back to LaCie and even though they noted that it was just the controller they replaced, they still nicely formatted the volume, destroying all data. I have since taken too keeping two physical drives of the same size in separate enclosures and have them incrementally update one to the other nightly. The app I use to do this is GoodSync (Win/Mac). It's really low-profile/low-overhead and very configurable. My nightly updates are just a simple A->B incremental job. But I also have a job that connects to my colo server via SFTP as a midpoint, effectively allowing me to run my own Dropbox-style file locker. For this it has the ability to handshake with the server whenever any file changes in the specified local folder. I then run the client on multiple machines. Additionally it has ability to work with commercial cloud services, such as Azure and Amazon, but I haven't tried those. *There is a pay-version, but I haven't found anything yet that I couldn't do with the free version.

this is blatant harassment, worthy of a lawsuit, if not criminal charges. they couldn't ask you to undress during the interview... why this?

Even in the digital world, I'm sure I'll still manage to have one...

And the 3G is operable under Linux?

Here's the big question... Are there any tablets where you can run Linux and use it on 3G or 4G cellular?

Ohphuckus!!

I have taken to chosing one really strong password that I use for everything. But I add a two-character prefix to each one that corresponds to what the site/service/application is... For instance, let's say my base password is 4n4lr4p3! That means my login for Slashdot is really sd4n4lr4p3! ...and my login for Google is go4n4lr4p3!

i know that better handling and smoother ride definitely makes me a more 'impatient' driver. i've caught myself riding the ass of someone driving an '89 sundance and cursing them for going so slow until I remember how tenuous it felt to go more than 62mph back when that was my car...

the thing that kept me from straying from my exercise routine was to get a cross-training treadmill with a suitable bookholder that could hold a laptop. i put a piece of foam to cushion it to keep the vibrations from interrupting the hard drive. if it wasn't for this, i would be way to bored to stick to my regimen. don't use your shiny new macbook pro tho. foam or not, i wouldn't advise using any laptop that you really care about. i typically have a really old skinny vaio at any given time that i use for this purpose. i use it till it craps out and have had to replace the hard drive periodically. but the entertainment value has been worth it. i took about 30 lbs. off this year.