Category: Real Life

Items that apply to ‘interesting’ subjects in my Real Life.

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

A Busy March

My apologies for being so lax here, at least from a posting perspective. Never said I’d be updating this on regular basis. ;)

Anyway, I really have been busy this month. Several things happening in rapid succession:

– A new desktop PC, which I *think* is on my ‘Computer Specs’ page (see sidebar). There’s a pain I don’t want to consider again…

– The loss of access to D’mala shard, and its fix about 1.5 weeks later (granting a last-minute access to this year’s St Pats Parade).

– Said Parade (very enjoyable day), as well as the hurried week beforehand doing my only practice. Thank Goodness for dealing with this before, as well as keeping it up the past year as an Honor Guard.

– Helping out on some scripting issues regarding the InnerLife plot in Tavarua (SL). I still need to check on the status of that.

– And (finally!) getting to do the research work on the presentation in July. I’ll be sending my application for it this weekend I hope. Again, I have another page in the sidebar if anyone’s interested in following that.

Anyway, I also just made the mistake of getting Oblivion. Not installed it yet, but probably will soon…

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