Dispelling Common Cloud Myths
Is there someone in your office that complains constantly yet offers no useful suggestions on how to fix the problem at hand? Do you wonder if some people just thrive on complaining and tickling the skeptic bone in others? Are you sick of the abundance of conflicting and often confusing information? When it comes to [...]
Strange G-Mail Delays
This morning, I began noticing that e-mail was being delivered up to several days late via G-Mail. I haven’t seen anything on Google’s blogs or updates regarding it, so I’m guessing that I’m the beneficiary of a very minor and localized bug. How fortunate for me. If you have been sending e-mail to my G-Mail [...]
Backup To .deb Or .rpm ?
A silly but interesting thought came over me today while I was working on a backup suite, wouldn’t it be easier if full system backups produced archives that could be re-installed via the system package manager? This would allow a bare metal restore on top of a base system, up to any version of the [...]
From The Ashes – The Commodore Phoenix
Reader beware: This whole thing could be a hoax, as Martin Decky pointed out in comments. See this, its identical to the Phoenix. This confirms my concerns about the Commodore logo being absent. To avoid linking and adding to hype, the original post has since been deleted.
Going Beyond HIPAA
Behind every rule or regulation that you can imagine, you will find an intent. The intent of speed limits is to reduce deaths and injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents. The intent of HIPAA is to safe guard HI (health information) thereby transforming it into PHI (protected health information). Its one thing to implement HIPAA [...]
144 Petabytes On Compact Flash (Yes, Just One!)
You did not misread the title, its not 1.44 petabytes, its 144 (as in 12×12) on a single CF card. Read more about it here. It will still limp along at an unimpressive 32MB/sec (well, for CF, that is rather impressive) according to the CF 5.0 specification CAUTION: LINK LEADS TO AN ANGRY FRUIT SALAD. [...]
Fun With EncFS
A lot of you have probably, at one time or another, had to deal with PCI/DSS compliance. I’ve dealt with it too, but this is the first time that I’ve really confronted conforming to HIPAA and HITECH, which dictate how medical records should be stored. EncFS is the perfect solution in such a case. Its [...]
Skype To Open Its Linux Client?
I came across this while reading my e-mail this morning and almost lost a mouth full of coffee. The last time that happened, Microsoft had just sent patches to the Linux kernel mailing list. It appears that soon (as in very soon), I’ll be able to actually get rid of the only copy of Windows [...]
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