technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Archive for June, 2008
Aaaaggghhhh!
Jun 11th
A friend of mine has a successful small company. He’s realised that he needs “backup” because he knows he’ll go out of business if he loses his data. He claims that he doesn’t have the budget for online backup, and his staff aren’t computer literate enough to be trusted to swap a backup tape and store it off site.
I decided to use him as a guinea pig for Restore, and open source client-server disk backup platform. He has a reasonably powerful server in the office (I bought it for him) and a web hosting account with 10GB of space (also More >
No photos allowed
Jun 3rd
There’s a big fuss in the US right now over amateur photographers being blocked from taking pictures of public buildings because they might be terrorists. If you whip out a pocket camera in any public space, the odds are that you’ll have a burly security guard demanding that you delete the picture within seconds. Now there’s no law against taking pictures, nor should there be seeing as your taxes paid for the things in the first place, but they keep harassing people anyway.
Fox News were interviewing a PR flunkey for Washington DC’s Union Station, and the PR guy was More >
