Category: English

True Love

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.”

ZFS-to-ZFS backups

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”

More Advanced Format drives: Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen and Seagate Barracuda Green

I’ve acquired a couple more 2 TB Advanced Format drives: a Seagate Barracuda Green (ST2000DL003) and a Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen (HD204UI, no data sheet available online). Continue reading “More Advanced Format drives: Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen and Seagate Barracuda Green”

Stalkers

I don’t get Google+.

Much of it looks like a better facebook, with e.g. far better photo
handling and a more nuanced relationship system—where facebook tried to
patch the black-and-white “friend” concept by adding “pages” and
“groups”, Google+ simply generalized it, eliminating the need for such
hacks.

However, I don’t understand why Google+ allows people I have never even
heard of—including people hiding behind pseudonyms and whose identity
even a Google search (hah!) can’t reveal, so much for their
controversial “real name” policy—to push updates into my “Incoming”
stream. I thought the idea was to let me decide who I wanted to
follow, not the other way around.

I almost feel like I’m being stalked, except it’s a weird sort of
reverse stalking where, instead of following me around and poking their
noses into my private life, the stalkers follow me around and grind my
nose into their private lives.

Who the hell are you people?