Assorted musings (Episode 1?)
Not enough to warrant a full blog article, but here are a few things that have caught my attention of…
Category: Aside
Adventures in Solar
In my first job at BHP Information Technology in Newcastle — back in the 1990s, there was a running joke…
Of Home Labs and Commercial Ventures
Hannibal Datacentre: “You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of…
Random Thoughts on Moving
Or, “You can’t deduplicate your house but when you move you wish to hell you could”. Building a house is…
Working in the Hour of the Wolf
Introduction Whether you call it the hour of the wolf or the witching hour, that time between midnight and dawn…
Dreaming of 8-Bit: The Raspberry Pi 400
8-Bit Memories On November 15, 2020, I ordered a Raspberry Pi 400 kit. I’ve mentioned the order date because I…
Summer Holiday Adventures
My relaxing summer break is coming to a close, which means I’m days away from returning to work and the…
Goodbye, Drobo
The FARR model of data protection starts with fault tolerance – a fundamental requirement to provide a guarantee of data integrity…
DON’T PANIC
One of the most important lessons I’ve learnt over the years in data protection is a simple caution: DON’T PANIC….
…and that’s a wrap for 2019
So, that’s it for 2019, for me at least. This isn’t really going to be a post about data protection…