It’s the Note Taking theme from The Style Contest. I thought it was kind of neat. Still tweaking it a little bit here and there.
Where did everything go???!!!
Stupid me. I accidentally dumped my blog directory when I hit the delete button, thinking I only had a file selected when the folder was selected instead. Then I watched helplessly as Windows zipped through and trashed everything. No recovery from the recycle bin either, because it was on a mounted Samba share from the server, and naturally I have no recent backup since the tape drive bought the farm on me.
sigh
Fortunately the main part of the blog is recoverable with a simple rebuild. About the only things lost are the images that were part of my blog posts. Considering how many of them there were, I may just bag it and not bother with recovering too many of them.
MT 3.33 security update
There’s a security related update for Movable Type that just came out. Patches can be found at the Pronet blog. Updating is highly recommended.
Woot! for dogs!
Check it out! OneDoggieGoodie.com is just like Woot!, but they sell dog stuff instead. I have to admit I didn’t really see too much in their previous offerings that I would actually buy for my dogs, but there were a couple of toys that I might have considered.
This Woot! thing must be catching on.
Found via Doggienews.com.
50 years of the hard drive
Can you believe it? 50 years ago, some big brained people at IBM developed the first hard drive. The hard drive is truly one of those things that revolutionized computers, enabling quick and easy access to data as opposed to much slower tape access.
From the Yahoo! article:
The integrated RAMAC was about two refrigerators in width and not quite as tall, and it literally weighed a ton. Its 50 24-inch platters were in a stack inside the unit, in an assembly that spun at 1200 revolutions per minute. The unit used two magnetic recording heads. The RAMAC could hold 5MB–about the storage that today is needed for one 5-minute MP3 encoded at 128 kilobits per second.
I remember my first encounter with a hard drive. It was a heavy metal box capable of storing 10 MB of data and fit into an IBM XT. Now there are hard drives with 750 GB capacities in a 3.5″ form factor and no signs of capacity increases slowing down in the near future. This week we brought 20 TB of hard drive storage online and are in the process of populating it with stuff from the existing 5 TB RAID and stuff off the tape archive. It should be enough to hold about a year’s worth of patient images online although we’ve projected that in a few years we’ll need about 50 TB to hold the same amount of data online. Amazing isn’t it. Makes me think of that saying “Data will always expand to fill your available storage”.
Plenty of good reading out on the net for this notable anniversary. Over at Tom’s Hardware they interview someone from Seagate about what’s in store for future spinning disk technology.
Found at Slashdot