In the mid eighties, I wandered into a dive shop looking for new fins. On the counter was a coffee table book of underwater photographs. The title was Within a Rainbowed Sea, and the photographer was somebody I’d never heard of named Chris Newbert. I picked it up and leafed through it, my jaw dropping… [Read More]
A Windows 7 upgrade
Normally, I don’t upgrade my OS until the new one has been out at least six months. Conventional wisdom in an industrial setting is to wait for Service Pack 1, but I don’t wait that long at home. Nevertheless, I’ve been reading about Windows 7 for a long time now, and I’m intrigued. There’s always… [Read More]
Upgrading a Drobo
A few days ago I was down in the server room, and I noticed an orange light next to the top disk in Drobo2 (my second Drobo box). I brought up the Drobo dashboard, and it said that my disks were OK, but that the array was getting full, and I should install a larger… [Read More]
A disk upgrade
When I got my present workstation last February (for the story, click here), It came with a single 1 TB disk. I planned to put two more in it, since there were supposed to be two free bays. When I opened up the case up to stick the new disks in, one of the bays… [Read More]
Flash card data loss
When I talk to digital photographers about the nuts and bolts of the craft, there’s a topic that comes up unusually often: what size flash cards to use in your camera. There are photographers that say that you want to keep the card size small, so when there’s a file system error, you won’t lose… [Read More]
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