Lost a well-respected – even if pun-filled – financial host this week.
–TSK
Author: Sungak
Beginnings and Endings
I finished cleaning up the old Second Life parcel in Tavarua, ready for its next use. Probably for the InnerLife group temporarily, since that’s what I’ve asked it to be re-purposed for during the next (and final) two months of its rental.
And as one such project ends, another begins. I’m starting to take a peek at Blender now. There is still some setup before I’m willing to go full-out on Age Building experiments (or even just helping other projects), but I like the concept and allows me to putter about with things without having to be online – something that was lacking in SL, as I could not do such things there.
I may yet putter within SL – I have a half-finished project I’d like to complete, since its my only really complex build. Otherwise I’m pretty well off it now, other than some small things I may contemplate.
–T. Kimball
LTO Tape Hardware Encryption
[Edited to have link set correctly – rare problem with what I use for weblog formatting.]
Got a rather interesting topic sent my way tonight – Apparently the group that maintains the LTO tape standard is looking to include hardware encryption into its tape drive. Link here.
The person who brought this up had an interesting (and important to many in the backup field) comment: “If they get it right the crypto will be able to happen alongside the drive compression, and then we just have to worry about how we’ll feed 240MB/sec into the darn things.”
Yes, that’s 240 Meg per second. Should hold 800 Gig of data natively on a tape too, IIRC. ‘Fun’ enterprise-level stuff; Thankfully I don’t worry about that kind of insane workloads yet…
[Oh, P.S. – I did get out of jury duty after day two; Case got settled. *insert sigh of relief here*]
Jury Duty. Bah.
Morning all,
I am sitting here at a Jury Assembly room, getting ready for Day Two.
As in, ‘Two days or one Trial’ which this particular area of NJ has for Jury Service. I’ve not been picked yet, but am in an actual trial pool as of first thing this morning.
Obviously I can’t talk much about this particular experience, yet, but I have done this once before – back in late Jan / early Feb of 2000.
What I’m willing to say about *that* experience is that 1) I don’t much want to talk about the trial I ended up in, even to my parents, 2) It changed my feelings toward Jury Duty in general rather signifigantly from ‘I’m excited to finally do this’ to ‘I don’t really want to go through that ever again.’
I’m sure it’s not helping any that, well, I also work 3rd shift and so its been more of a drain to work than its expected. And the PCs they have in here with internet access (which in itself is rather surprizing) aren’t the best things on the planet either, or for that matter well taken care of.
Ah well, wish me luck that I’ll just have this day over with and I can get on with life for now…
–TSK