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  • Backup master class: no attendance required

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    In October of last year, I ranted about Joel Hruska’s article at ExtremeTech about his “Backup Master Class” article on RAID. After reading the whole series of articles I realize Joel was expanding on his recent data loss experience. Now his articles have given me context. While I heavily criticized his article about RAID, his…

  • The PC is not over; it's just changing very, very slowly

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    For the past year, I’ve been reading numerous opinions of how the PC is over. My first PC experience was well over twenty-five years ago so today I find the supposed demise of the PC extremely hyperbolic. I find tablets and smartphones as specialized extensions of PCs so you’ll excuse me if I don’t buy…

  • Behind schedule

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    I’ve been sick for just over a week now and I haven’t posted much. I had a goal of posting at least three times a week but the flu and an inner ear infection have put a halt on my daily routine. I’m just getting back in the swing of things so I’ll get back…

  • Onward to 2013

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    It’s been a busy year for me. I haven’t conquered the blog schedule quite as strictly as I intended but that’s going on the resolution list for next year. I’m aiming at minimum three blog posts per week but I’d settle for two. I’m still writing the Digital Storage at Home mini-series and it’s taking…

  • Digital Storage at Home: My storage story

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    For years I never had any kind of storage or backup plan. From the late 90’s to early 2000’s, I had used 1GB Iomega Jaz drives for storage but over time, I thought I could resort to using CD-ROMs. I also kept adding larger hard disks figuring that I wouldn’t need anything serious. Four years…

  • Digital Storage at Home: Planning for storage nirvana

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    You’ve decided to take the plunge into sharing digital storage between your computers, tablets, phones, home theater PCs, etc. Fantastic. It may seem like overkill, but as I’ve pointed out before we have so much to capture, share and download from the Internet, while keeping all the old artifacts will eventually lead to problems with…

  • Digital Storage at Home: Why should anyone care?

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    Over the past five years, my storage needs have grown at a faster rate in comparison to all other technological needs (computers, gaming, consoles, phones, laptops, etc.). At first, I didn’t realize just how large applications and games had become just to install. I didn’t even take in updates and patches for consideration to the…

  • New mini-series: Digital Storage at Home

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    So, I’m going to be writing up several articles all related to my adventures in home storage technology; namely Network Attached Storage (NAS). Over the past five years, I’ve been investing my time/energy and money into several different storage solutions so I’ll be sharing my experience over the coming weeks.

  • Election Day 2012

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    I can’t say I’ve been looking forward to this day but after all the ads on TV and rhetoric on Facebook and among friends, this election cannot be over soon enough. After being through several elections in which I’ve participated (I think three including today), I admire the fact that we can still have a…

  • Why I won't buy any Android phones

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    I really want to like Android phones. The new Samsung S3 is very impressive and Android seems to be making more and more progress with each release but the carriers absolutely kill me. According to this article from ArsTechnica, it appears that Motorola won’t be updating their Atrix 4G phone to ICS. Well, I guess…