Posts by Martin

Where has all the bad storage gone?

Microsft's new backup

Want a bad product? Check out the "backup" solution that ships with Windows Server 2008(and I think Vista, I haven't dared brave that quagmire for long enough to check). Gone is the simple yet flexible NT backup, replaced by what can only be considered a cruel joke. Want to backup, say, just your OS on a schedule? You have to dedicate an entire drive for it, even if you only need 20gigs or so, and you don't get to choose what to backup. Just entire drives. That drive then disappears to the operating system. Recovery? Who knows how well that will work.

For some stupid reason you CAN backup just what you want, and not dedicate a drive for it, but YOU CAN"T SCHEDULE IT! SO you either get to schedule an invisible backup taking an entire extra drive, or you can pick what and where you want it, but you have to redo it manually every time. Even MS admitted in a posting on a blog somewhere that this was a have cocked rushed beta of a backup program.

And don't even get me started on their new disk defragmenter . . .You want shoddy products? Just go hang with Redmond for a while. Didn't their "home server have massive data corruption problems to?

Now off to upgrade firmware on a bunch of Seagate drives. No bad storage anymore???. . .look around.

Canadian cable giant slips Yahoo! name onto Google home page

slippery slope

Google puts ads on web pages at the request of webpage owners, who in turn get money for that. or when you use Google services, they get money from ads. This is totally different, and does begin to breach net neutrality.

Just think though, if your ISP can get away with "adding content" to your web pages, when will it end? Will every network that your data travels through get to start adding their own stuff too?

Hypersonic hydrogen airliner to bitchslap Concorde

Energy source

They just need to setup a refueling stop in Iceland. Make the hydrogen there, since they have all that "Free" geothermal energy.

Pentagon's raygun-packing 747 to visit DC

rediculous. . .

Ok, someone explain to me how this will work in practice. Since it needs to be shot down in the first few minutes, we would need to assume this thing will actually be in the air. Now, its a good bet that Kim Jong Il isn't going to ring up the Whitehouse and let them know he is going to fire off a missile, should he REALLY want it to be effective. So, is this plane going to just circle around North Korea and Iran, forever in the air? Unlikely. Or do they plan a fleet of them, rotating through service for continue coverage? Sounds expensive. Or did they not think that far ahead? Sounds like the most probable . . .

Glad my tax dollars didn't go towards this monstrosity.