Chris Farris

Of course we could just stop storing so much damn data no one will ever use. 🙂 RAID’s Days May Be Numbered – www.enterprisestorageforum.com.

“When employees are too effective at hiding the consequences of bad management decisions, they act as enablers and do nobody any favors.” -Craig

I’ve not tested this as I don’t have a Win7 VM anywhere (yet). Cavet Emptor. VMware vSphere Client on Microsoft Windows 7! | Virtual Lifestyle.

British PM apologizes for treatment of gay code-breaker – CNN.com. No single man did more to win the war in Europe than Alan Turing, who is also the father of modern computing. The fact that closed-minded homophobic bigots caused him to take his life is a tragedy that must never be repeated! Kudos to Prime Minister Brown for acting quickly and decisively once the matter what brought to his attention, rather than trying to weigh its political consequences in the next election.

An excellent presentation by Georgia Tech’s Stephen Fleming on the economics and physics of Hydrogen as an alternate fuel. Presented at Dragon*Con.

Striking color photographs of Imperial Russia taken by the Tsar’s official photographer. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog. Hint: My birthday is coming up. 🙂

How to open CLI to VMware ESXi. How to Clone Virtual Machines. | HowConfig.

In case anyone was wondering, you can run the VI client inside Parallels Desktop on a Mac. As I plan to switch to VMware Fusion if I get Snow Leopard for my birthday I hope it works in that too. I’d really like to virtualize my Windows box. Ew, assuming I can get the USB pass through to work in ESXi. I need to be able to use the scanner in my VM.