Thinking out loud about cars, computers and security
I hereby challenge the Internet to collate the hell out of some papers. Remember to link to the original.
The Internet’s resilience and ability to heal itself and work around intentional or unintentional damage are the stuff of legends. As with most legends, however, it is only partly true. Key components of the Internet’s technical infrastructure are still, to a large degree, and despite repeated efforts to decentralize them, concentrated in and controlled by the United States.
As a non-US resident who makes his living largely from the Internet, I am extremely pleased to see that the United States House of Representatives has recognized this weakness and is considering decisive measures to remedy the situation. Continue reading “Dear Members of Congress”
Around one in the morning…
“This is blasphemous, you know.”
“Hmmm?”
“This colostrum-based cold medicine. They have a promotion where they’ve hidden images of golden calves in some of the boxes and you win a prize if you find one. It’s blasphemous.”
“Huh?”
“You know, the golden calf? The false idol the Israelites made while Moses was up on the mountain and he got so angry when he saw it that he broke the tablets and had to go back and get a new set?”
“Yes?”
“It’s blasphemous. I’m probably going to hell for taking this cold medicine.”
“…”
“If I go to hell, will you come with me?”
“Yes. Now go to sleep.”
I’m tired of Windows 7 complaining every time it boots about the Bluetooth radio not being discoverable. The irony is that the Bluetooth settings dialog recommends that you turn off discoverability (for obvious reasons), but when you do, it will bitch and bitch and bitch until you turn it back on. Does anyone know how to make it stop nagging?
ZFS has a couple of very useful functions, zfs send and zfs receive, which allow you to serialize a complete ZFS dataset and recreate it in a different location. They can also be used to serialize a delta between two snapshots and apply that delta to a previously created copy of the dataset. You see where I’m going with this… That’s right, incremental backups of a ZFS dataset or even an entire pool to a different ZFS dataset or pool. Continue reading “ZFS-to-ZFS backups”
