Anybody remember Jerry Pournelle’s column in Byte Magazine? In the spirit of that long-running account of Jerry’s struggles with technology, here’s a blow-by-blow of my experiences with the Drobo boxes. You are welcome to enjoy a bit of schadenfreude. Conclusions in the next post. I ordered the first box from Amazon. It arrived in two… [Read More]
New off-site backup options
Only eighteen months have passed since I wrote the paper on backing up photographic images, but there have been some changes that affect the off-site component of the backup strategy that I proposed in that paper. The biggest difference is the price reduction of one terabyte disks. It’s now hovering close to a hundred bucks… [Read More]
From Tortoise to Hare
Over the last year, you may have noticed the performance of this blog diminishing: pages taking longer to load, timeouts, and the navigation tools not loading properly. If you’re a diligent reader, at the end of December you saw a complete outage for about a day. Since then, performance has increased markedly. Pages load crisply,… [Read More]
POD specifics
I promised some specifics about my POD experiences. Here we go. I have produced books using both MyPublisher and Blurb, running both of the downloadable page layout aps on Vista. Some of my experiences, especially regarding fonts, may not apply to the Mac OSs. MyPublisher has a few advantages over Blurb: The big books are… [Read More]
More on publishing
Let’s say you wanted to go into the print-on-demand book business. You want to get started on the cheap, so you rent some time on an hp Indigo, cobble together some kind of fulfillment service, and start taking orders. To make customer support less of an issue, you go after a market where your customers… [Read More]