Bright auroras on Jupiter. [video]
Looks like something from Forbidden Planet.
Hmmm.
A Strange World
Very strange, very uncomfortable things are happening in the world.
15 Years
15 years married today! One kid raised and another two well under way. Lots of hardship mixed with lots of joy. Marriage is a partnership of work, commitment and love. I’m glad I have you John! Happy Independence Day! July 4, 2016
House Boats
Because boats. That’s why.
Data Protection: In progress
I have a 2nd-generation Drobo in the house. Once per week, we have a planned power outage (yes, really, follow along) for about 10 hours. House server and media libraries all get shut down cleanly and powered off before power is cut to the house. Not a big deal, right?
Power it all back up 10 hours later and Drobo occasionally says, “Hey, you’re missing a disk… replace the one with the red light.”
Occasionally.
So, I reseat the drive… then wait three days for the array to rebuild.
Three. Days.
Yep, first world problems.
It’ll only get worse as I upgrade those disks to 3 or 4TB capacities.
the rest of me 