I was blog surfing this morning and started with a “link post” (one of those posts where the writer lists a bunch of links and perhaps includes a one-line comment. From there I followed it to a sane post (but not one I necessarily agreed with). And from there I got to an editorialized […]

Doing sufficient backups, building virtual machines, and storing my transient video collection “on-line” requires storage, storage, and more storage. With three computers now getting sufficient backups to give me moderate peace of mind, I needed more storage than my RAID1 NAS (network addressable storage) was ready to serve. I had 2 750GB drives but […]

I’ve been watching the migratory birds along the Chesapeake Bay off an on over the past couple of months. And in that time I’ve also tried to photograph them on multiple occasions. I seldom was happy with the results. Today was different …

I am trying to create an backup solution for a Windows machine. I have grown to really like the SimpleLinuxBackup solution I have on the rest of my machines. It is simple (obviously) and performs both full backups and incremental backups.
There are five characteristics I need …

“what to include” - directories and files […]

… rustling in the leaves was a small creature, not more than 4 inches in length. On a forceful day, it might be found standing on its hind legs and even then it would be little more than half a foot high. Still, it was the ruler of the forest from which it […]