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I've found LTO4 tapes for as little as $19 each.

I don't know. I see signs every time I drive to Knoxville.

Some people pay good money for that sort of thing.

That's Kentucky. I think Interstate 64 in Kentucky is called the Kentucky Memorial Bourbon Trail or something.

Don't get Stereodude started...

Of course the ideal would be to have multiple drives. Single point of failure, etc. But in my experience from years of IT work, I've not seen issues of having a tape made in one drive not being readable in a different one. I've seen problems with god-awful backup software not being able to do a...

I had to become familiar with BE to help out a friend anyway. It's fine. Kind of. There are a bunch of different tape libraries out there. Dell and HP and Tandburg and several other companies make them. The distinctions are pretty minor. There are also larger library systems, but they don't...

You're going to have to look at library systems, not single drives. You'll find that your mid-range library system will be either an 8-bay or 16-bay changer that will fit in a 1U enclosure. You'll connect it to a SAS controller and the library's full function will be fully supported by only some...

If you're doing things right, you should probably have a near-line backup on a NAS or something and something offline for archival storage. Your redundant server might or might not be serving that purpose, depending on how you're syncing it, but it's still not the same thing as having something...

Seems like a function that's only found on the cheapest controllers, actually.

So you have $3500 worth of disk drives but you're not willing to consider a more stable form of storage?

You can specially configure a Windows install disk to point the users folder to a different drive. You could also create a symlink or a junction point in NTFS that points your stuff to where it needs to go, though I'm not 100% certain about whether Windows would be OK with doing that for a...

It's not going to happen that way either because there can always be a vastly more efficient codec given sufficient CPU power.

Apparently the new trend in e-tail is reducing costs for logistics. Newegg's getting worse, Amazon's getting worse. This does not bode well.

IIRC he worked for a bank and then for Pacific Bell, not PG&E.

In the end, that comes down to everyone wanting a piece of the pie. That's not going to change. Personally I want devices that are versatile enough to deal whatever is put in front of them. The devices that are best able to do that are computers with general purpose operating systems, not...

RDP can disconnect and very quickly re-negotiate a connection if the session remains open. I could very easily imagine a circumstance where someplace in the mess of RDP over VPN over internet connection where some part of that connection momentarily stopped working without actually ending the...

Coffin 2.0 needs tape backup.

That is correct. Some states won't let you. Indiana is another one. wine.woot.com can only operate in I think 21 states.

I'm still annoyed with Gigabyte and Intel didn't have any products that conformed to my needs. Asus has mildly annoyed me for years but I don't have any evidence of systemic inferiority in the way that I do for certain other disliked brands of hardware.

Not that I heard.

Why is that important enough that it's breaking news? People kill each other all the time. Someone came into my office to tell me about it a little while ago. Here's the rule: If it's not on NPR it's not news.

What's a Casey Anthony and why do I care what he or she did?

I live in a fireworks state. People buy their kids fireworks and they're let off continuously at all times of the day and night. There was a six year old wandering around my apartment building with a grill lighter and a bunch of bottle rockets yesterday. Because that's a good idea. You heard...

It sucked on top of suck. The penalty for fireworks after 9PM should be to have them shoved up your ass, then lit with a flamethrower.

The NEC USB3 controller still works. I haven't dug out the manual to see how that's routed to the rest of the motherboard logic. I'm halfway inclined to just slap a NIC in it and let it run until it dies some more, not in the least because that's my main desktop. Of course, I'm also going to...

For now it is. If I get to a point where I'm unsure about the quality of protection provided with Avast, I will evaluate Forticlient

That does make a certain amount of sense, since dcpromo is if nothing else going to involve installing a DNS server for a domain it can manage. If the only options are the reserved APIPA and loopback ranges, it makes sense that it would barf.

I used IE9 for the first time over the weekend. It was decidedly Chrome-like. I'm not sure how far I'd want the browser UI minimalism to go, but that's definitely the direction the biggest browsers are taking. Google is talking about removing the URL bar from the default view in future versions...

Well, my Asus P8P67 Deluxe died over the weekend at age 58 days. Neither on board NIC nor any of the USB2 ports are functional. So that's nice.

Fun, true fact for the IT guys here: MSE is only free for commercial installations of 10 computers or less. If you're going to ignore that fact, you might as well install better protection in the first place. I've been told Forticlient is another decent free option. I still haven't felt...

MSE is generally not acceptable. It's a drag on system resources, misses too much stuff and is lacking what I consider basic functionality. I've never liked Avira's stupid popup, either.

That really should be the outcome of any security breach, not just a rootkit.

Maybe some of them. But not Coug.

Coug is not a Canadian. You know better.

I have a Quantum Superloader library with an LTO4 drive. The setup has a very high startup cost (mine was lightly used) but tapes are cheap and will last, relatively speaking, forever.

Technically, no. In Indiana they're legal to sell but not to use. But no one ever gets in any trouble for it. It's ongoing bullshit and one of the things I hate about this place.

The fucking fireworks started a month ago. They've been going on for a month and they won't stop until about the time that all the inbred wombshits are rounded up and forced back into their schools. Everything about this holiday sucks.

No doubt. This is a perfect case of having a problem with a million solutions. Ages and ages ago there was a really cool thread in one of the UNIX groups on USENET about all the different ways you could make the standard utilities to give a directory listing. There were probably hundreds of...

Before I had my tape setup, my standard practice was to build a JBOD or RAID0 on some machine I could stuff full of drives for as long as I needed to move data around. If you're using a decent backup program, you can tell it to store backups as chunks of arbitrary file size. That's not all...

Oh, probably. But a lot of things Microsoft is doing now aren't exposed to VBS but are exposed to Powershell. Lots of Exchange functionality, for example.

On the other hand, awk is one of those swiss army knife tools that works on everything, once you know it. Microsoft changes its major scripting language at the drop of a hat. Or had you forgotten about Powershell?

Given what's in the theater right now, I think I'd rather pay my $8 to go sit in the lobby for two hours.

My ex is moving to Pennsylvania and other ladies that I know are busy doing holiday stuff. My apartment is clean. I have no contracting work to get done. It's going to be hot and humid and there probably hasn't been a 10 minute period of time any time in the last two weeks when there hasn't...

This weekend is going to be boring and stupid.

They won't do that in my area unless someone lives in one of the towns where Comcast isn't the only cable TV franchise.

They call it cheap now, but watch when they're released and 10x as expensive as equivalent flash modules.

The Vortexbox is pretty slick. I set one up on a dual core Atom machine with a Hitachi 2TB drive and then turned it over to my boss with the couple scripts needed to map its disk shares on her kids' PCs and Macs. They've been using it for about a week and they're not even aware that the box is...

Verizon sold its DSL business to a company called Frontier. I think Frontier has done more to sell Comcast cable than anything Comcast could have done in the history of ever.

That's what your non-marring pry tools are for.