I’ve been thinking about storage capacity lately. I had a couple of IO errors on my aging Synology NAS drive that caused a minor panic at the thought of losing all of my redundancy and archived media. At 6TB of RAID5 backing up all our photos, ripped DVDs and iTunes libraries, it’s a daunting prospect […]
Hi. I thought I’d come up to periscope depth to drop a few words about what I’ve been up to. WordPress is a tricky vehicle to publish with and it usually devolves into extended configuration and Linux spelunking but I think I’m through the worst of it. If I can just ignore that blinking terminal […]
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this year. Thanks to our organizers and IT staff for all the hard work they put into making everything run so smoothly. My GDC14 Flickr Set This was the first year Mozilla had an actual booth on the show floor […]
(This post is not really Mozilla-related, so if you’re not interested in open source flight-controllers and software, you can stop reading here. There are some parallels though and I draw a connection later on, so I did decide to push this to planet.mozilla.org.) A few weeks ago, a friend said, “hey, 3D Robotics has a […]
I have had a number of iPods over the years. Starting with my iPod 3G, then a 5G (whose screen is pictured above), a 1st-gen iPod Touch and lately an iPod 7G Classic with a 160GB drive in it. I’ve loved them all, but it really feels like “Device as a Music Player” is done. […]
