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Comment Backblaze, Amazon S3 or Google Storage (not Drive) (Score 1) 241

by itr2401 (#55066891) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend?
Backblaze, Amazon S3 and Google Storage all provide great cloud backup capability. What you need tho is the NAS to support sending your data to your preferred provider when required - daily, hourly and so on. Additionally, you want to be able to store that data encrypted at rest either locally and store (or optionally the unencrypted data) the encrypted data in the cloud as well. Have a look at MyNAS Storage Appliance (www.mynas.com.au) as it seems to have the cloud replication, encryption and local data integrity part sorted out

Comment Re:Nexenta Community Edition (Score 1) 182

by itr2401 (#37784586) Attached to: Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared
Similar reasons why I went with NCE as well. Interesting that you have a slower throughput than me, but given that your doing de-dupe (im not at the moment & no compression) it's probably warrented. Do you have an SSD for ZIL and L2ARC etc?

On the HP N36L I also had to update the bge driver as it didnt support jumbo frames even with manual editing of the files - now everything is sweet :)

Comment HP N36L (Score 1) 182

by itr2401 (#37770518) Attached to: Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared
HP N36L - 4 bay, non hot swap + space for 5th hdd in CD Drive bay space. If you want to use 2.5" drives, can swap that out for a 4 in 1 unit for 8 drives.
This server + low profile PCIe SATA expansion card running NetxentaStore Community (ZFS + DeDupe) accross 5 drives (3TB, ~15TB with ~12TB usable) + 2.5" boot drive + SSD gives me ~97MBytes read / write when exporting via iSCSI to VMware, NFS / Samba shares.
Moon

Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon 147

Posted by Soulskill from the always-in-the-last-place-you-look dept.
cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."

Comment Try Billion Routers (Score 2, Informative) 344

by itr2401 (#31972468) Attached to: Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL?
Have a look at Billion http://www.billion.com/ They may not be Open Source like DD-WRT etc, however for around the same cost as your Belkin, Netgear, Buffalo etc - they totally kick ass, and generally give you a much more feature rich feature set. Some models are 802.11n + gigabit ports + DSL or FTTH + USB for 3G backup path if DSL or FTTH goes down. They have voice integrated models too for VoIP + VPN as well so they are certainly worth looking at.
Hardware

GUI-Based Asset-Tracking Tools For a Datacenter? 113

Posted by timothy from the your-gigantic-whiteboard dept.
toruonu writes "How do you keep track of what's in your datacenter, where it is, what it's connected to and what is it doing right now? I mean I have built a datacenter from scratch over the years and I have machines from Sun, IBM, HP, Supermicro. I have machines that are simple workernodes and machines that are heavy grade storage consolidation machines. Then there are tens of switches, some for interconnect, some for management and don't get me started on the UPSs etc. So how does one keep any kind of decent track of such a system as the current form of twiki pages with various tables just doesn't cut it anymore and I'm looking for a freeware solution that could actually show me a visual representation of the various nodes in the racks, their connections and dependencies. Just to give a simple example, if I'm going to disconnect UPS #3 right now and swap switch #5, which machines should I even consider taking offline?" (The best-looking such system I've seen was being used at OSCON at a display booth for the Open Source Lab, and I think it was home-grown. Anyone who can shed light on that system?)
Science

Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat 210

Posted by timothy from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.
ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
Image

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus from the nice-feed dept.
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Comment Hardware I use (Score 1) 272

by itr2401 (#27292837) Attached to: Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation?
What I would do is look at what you need in hardware terms to run something like VMware ESXi. Firstly ESXi is at the best price point (it's free) whilst giving you most of the VI3 capabilities. The hardware that I run it on is pretty much whitebox hardware - Intel CPU (Q6600, 8GB RAM), Intel or Supermicro motherboard. The main requirement is that in order to install ESXi there needs to be a hardware controller that it can find and install to. Have a look at the VI3 HCL (http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=base&deviceCategory=server) to find your hardware to ensure things will run. On one system I use an Adaptec 19160 to boot ESXi from, then use iSCSI to an OpenFiler machine where all the VM's are stored. The other machine is a Dell T3400 where the onboard SATA when configured as non raid / AHCI, ESXi can install directly to any of the attached SATA drives. Another solution is to use an Adaptec SATA RAID card for local storage.
GNOME

OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop? 223

Posted by timothy from the appealing dept.
Ahmed Kamal writes "Is Linux getting too old for you? Are you interested to see what other systems such as OpenSolaris have to offer? OpenSolaris has some great features, such as ZFS and dtrace, which make it a great server OS — but how do you think it will fare on a laptop? Let's take an initial look at the most recent OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release on recentish laptop hardware."

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