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135 terabyte, 4U server for $7,384 is pretty cool! It’s been over a year since Backblaze revealed the designs of our first generation (67 terabyte) storage pod. During that time, we’ve remained focused on our mission to provide an unlimited online backup service for $5 per month. To maintain profitability, we continue to avoid overpriced [...]

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Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on an automated pricing program. This was not one of the algorithms I was looking at. A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – [...]

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I keep our web site source files, stored procedures, and assorted programs in a source control management(SCM) program called Subversion. Since I am a small shop I track my trouble tickets using Spiceworks. My normal work flow is to enter the trouble ticket into Spiceworks and then start working on the problem. When I am [...]

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I got a parse error when I upgraded from 0.14 to 0.15. I deleted the word “static” from the functions in the lightbox.php file as a temporary fix.

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Jason left a comment on a previous post about wanting to see the script I am using to email NTBackup log files. Recently I converted the script to powershell from vbs. Here is the old file.

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PrtScr I was just about to pan PrtScr until shortly after I installed it I wanted to add a copy of an embedded Flash animated graphic. Foolish me! My first choice was to make a PDF of the web page. It turned out to be a terrible choice.  The original chart had subtle shades of [...]

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I gave the Portable Ubuntu program a run today. I manually extracted the files using 7Zip since the executable had an error when it extracted the files. Then it took about three runs before my firewall, Comodo, and I agreed on the executables to unblock. I did get Portable Ubuntu to burp and stick my [...]

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Windows only: Free application DropboxPortable makes the popular file-syncing application thumb-drive friendly, so you can access your synced bucket from your thumb drive no matter what computer you’re using. Downloads: DropboxPortable Syncs Files to Your Thumb Drive I finally gave this program a test run and I was pleased with the results. Recently I split [...]

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The folks at MakeUseOf.com have a nice article on Right-Click Menu utlities, 3 More Tools to Bring Power to the Right Click Menu (Windows). One of the tasks I perform often is changing folders so any improvement in this area is always appreciated. I had been using QTAddressBar to quickly change between folders. It looks [...]

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I had several versions of Java on my PC and I lamented the fact that I needed to use “Add/Remove Programs” to remove them. This script came in handy although my copy and paste of the code needed several fixups before it would work. The single and double quotes from the copy were funky according [...]

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Recently I was debugging why a backup of a QuickBooks file was not working. A scheduled job running on the server was supposed to create a compressed encrypted version on a removable USB drive. The job was written by someone else and I guess they never checked to see if it worked!? I found that [...]

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I found an interesting problem today. If I run the DNS Randomness test at work using Doxpara’s widget, our ISP fails this test. If I run the test at DNS-OARC, I get mixed results. Sometimes the source port randomness is good and sometimes it is bad. Hmm… I am guessing our ISP has not patched [...]

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Andy wrote: My jaw dropped this morning as I read Chester Finn’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled The Self-Inflicted Economic Death of Ohio.  First, because the piece quantified some of my gut feelings about Ohio’s talent drain, and second, because of the magnitude of the problem. It’s So Important To Keep Talent In Ohio [...]

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As seen from del.icio.us I must be seen as…

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Last night I used the WordPress Scanner on two of my blogs and I got this message. dangerous-check-[0] PHP configuration file found in http://www.somewebsite.com/ I guess it is complaining about the fact that I have a php.ini file. I guess there is a security implication I am do not know about. I googled php.ini and [...]

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Here are two favorites from this post I found via Del.icio.us. The first tip I knew about one of these but forgot how to do it. The second tip I never knew about it. Make your Outlook Contacts take precendence over the global address list Make the cmd shell have decent copy/paste Win32 cheat sheetfozbaca [...]

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Through the grapevine I heard that FeedDemon is now free! Since GreatNews has been crashing on me recently, I decided it was a good time to give FeedDemon a try. Greg Reinacker just announced that NewsGator Outlook, FeedDemon and all the NewsGator clients are now totally free! The NOT-FREE thing about FeedDemon has always been [...]

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From Vlad we get this jewel: I am not going to claim that I am, ever have been or ever will be a lonely 13 year old girl. However, I am rapidly becoming more and more familiar with grown men and women that act like 13 year old girls when it comes to communication. Apparently, [...]

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Re: Blue Screen Stop Error – HELP!! (PCD5SRVC.pkms and Dell Support Center 2) I find it strange that no one from Dell has addressed a root cause solution to Dell Support Center 2 which is the obvious cause to this problem.  Most users are uninstalling the software so their systems still work; pretty sure that [...]

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Comodo™ Free Firewall Software Download I have been using the latest  version is 3.0 for several weeks now but have decided to go back to the previous version. Although the latest version has several new features that increase security, it does not allow me to make a VPN connection. I found the problem when I [...]

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