Comments for Jeff Mery http://www.jeffmery.com Father, husband, health nut, IT guy. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:41:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Comment on What a month (or two) by Todd http://www.jeffmery.com/2010/04/27/what-a-month-or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Todd Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:41:54 +0000 http://www.jeffmery.com/?p=98#comment-6 Brittany should slap you for misspelling her name so many times :) Brittany should slap you for misspelling her name so many times :)

]]> Comment on A few of my favorite (free) things by Josh Sokol http://www.jeffmery.com/2010/02/23/a-few-of-my-favorite-free-things/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Josh Sokol Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:23:19 +0000 http://www.jeffmery.com/?p=82#comment-5 We took pictures every day for the first year of Olivia's life. Those pictures were stored both in a directory on my Windows box and in an online gallery on my Linux box. One day my wife says to me "The pictures in the online gallery are all messed up." Sure enough, they were, so I went to my foolproof backup on the Windows box. Heh, those were foobared too. I was able to restore all except for about two weeks worth. Unfortunately, those two weeks also included our first trip to the zoo with Olivia. Sadness. It was then that I decided my backup strategy was totally retarded to say the least and I found Mozy@Home. I signed up for a 2 year deal at $5/month, but then also found some coupon online for more off. I think I paid like $50 for two years of unlimited backups. The service is truly awesome. Having that level of peace of mind is well worth the money. We took pictures every day for the first year of Olivia’s life. Those pictures were stored both in a directory on my Windows box and in an online gallery on my Linux box. One day my wife says to me “The pictures in the online gallery are all messed up.” Sure enough, they were, so I went to my foolproof backup on the Windows box. Heh, those were foobared too. I was able to restore all except for about two weeks worth. Unfortunately, those two weeks also included our first trip to the zoo with Olivia. Sadness. It was then that I decided my backup strategy was totally retarded to say the least and I found Mozy@Home. I signed up for a 2 year deal at $5/month, but then also found some coupon online for more off. I think I paid like $50 for two years of unlimited backups. The service is truly awesome. Having that level of peace of mind is well worth the money.

]]> Comment on My morning by WendyMery http://www.jeffmery.com/2010/02/09/my-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-4 WendyMery Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:11:43 +0000 http://www.jeffmery.com/?p=74#comment-4 Just blame the XBox :-) Just blame the XBox :-)

]]> Comment on Experiment Over by jeff http://www.jeffmery.com/2009/08/06/experiment-over/comment-page-1/#comment-3 jeff Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:59:06 +0000 http://www.jeffmery.com/?p=44#comment-3 I agree. FreeNAS looks awful promising for storage though. iSCSI target mode, simple configuration. The only thing I haven't dug into is whether or not RAID sets can be expanded on the fly or if they have to be managed "traditionally". If it can be done online, I'm sold. If not, it's still pretty sweet, but not killer just yet. I agree. FreeNAS looks awful promising for storage though. iSCSI target mode, simple configuration. The only thing I haven’t dug into is whether or not RAID sets can be expanded on the fly or if they have to be managed “traditionally”.

If it can be done online, I’m sold. If not, it’s still pretty sweet, but not killer just yet.

]]> Comment on Experiment Over by Todd http://www.jeffmery.com/2009/08/06/experiment-over/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Todd Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:34:34 +0000 http://www.jeffmery.com/?p=44#comment-2 Mmmm FreeNAS. You know, the reasons I'm still in Windows are very similar to yours. The main one being Driver Support. The last time I tried porting over, I had a hell of a hard time configuring my peripherals to the point where I said enough is enough. When I get on the computer I want to use it, not configure it day in and day out. New peripherals and software should be plug and play, until then I don't think I'll bother with any linux distro for daily use. (Except FreeNAS and maybe BackTrack...) -- Todd Mmmm FreeNAS.

You know, the reasons I’m still in Windows are very similar to yours. The main one being Driver Support. The last time I tried porting over, I had a hell of a hard time configuring my peripherals to the point where I said enough is enough. When I get on the computer I want to use it, not configure it day in and day out. New peripherals and software should be plug and play, until then I don’t think I’ll bother with any linux distro for daily use. (Except FreeNAS and maybe BackTrack…)

– Todd

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