Archive for October, 2005

Rails Studio

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

So I signed up for the first Rails Studio from the Pragmatic Programmers guys (plus the one day Ruby intro). Really looking forward to it - hopefully afterwards I can really step up my involvement with the RailFrog CMS project.

Front Row - a Windows Media Center Edition Killer?

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Front Row - anyone see this as the first shot across Windows Media Center Edition’s bow? Make it extensible, add a TV capture section (to go along with TV show purchasing from iTunes)…

I just hope they let you add a Universal Dock and Front Row to any Mac.

Remember that extra header/slot on the Mac mini’s internals? Make a mini with the Universal Dock built in and add a Plextor ConvertX USB2 PVR - a great set top box.

Over One Terabyte

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Holy, um, crap. Yeah, so I just got the backup drive set up, and decided to count through the storage at my house. Here’s the breakdown (only drives over 10 GB counted)

Mac Desktop (80 GB Main and 160 GB iLife and Games) 240 GB
PC Desktop 30 GB
Mac Laptop 40 GB
PC HTPC 40 GB
FreeBSD Dev Server 30 GB
Mac File Server (40 GB Main/Website and 400 GB files and 320 GB Backup) 760 GB

(Oh, and 2 iPods - 20 and 40 GB)

Total: 1200 GB, or Over One Terabyte.

Final piece of the Backup Puzzle

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Just got the 320 GB WD drive in (the largest single drive I’ve owned), and hooked it up. Right now, here’s what’s being backed up to it:

Desktop home folder daily
Server home folder daily
Sites folder daily
iTunes and iPhoto libraries weekly
Quicken files weekly
Misc file server files monthly