Another year draws to a close but it's just another month on The OS Quest. There was the usual mix of frustrations and a couple new pieces of hardware. And yea, a few words looking back on the past year. Happy New year! Read the rest »
Cloudberry Continuous Data Protection
I enabled CDP for my "hourly" backup soon after installing the update. It didn't work exactly as I expected but the differences didn't affect the actual backups. I also did some additional stress testing to check out performance and this is what I found. Read the rest »
Backup Review
The end of the year is a good time to review my backup strategy and do some test restores. I did the test restores over the weekend without incident and in this post I review the tools and strategy used for my backups. Read the rest »
Comic Book Fonts New Year’s Sale
Comic Book Fonts (a.k.a. Comicraft) has long been a favorite of mine and their New Year’s Day Sale has become a tradition. During their New Year’s day sale they sell all their fonts for a penny per year, so this time it will be $20.12 per font. The catch here is that even fonts that normally sell for less are also $20.12, So it worth visiting the site or downloading their catalog (pdf link) ahead of time to view the fonts. Since this is their 10th annual New year’s Day sale their [...] Read the rest »
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Read the rest »
Motorola SURFboard SB6121 DOCSIS 3 Cable Modem
After serving me for nearly 10 years it was finally time to replace my current modem. I've always owned my modem, rather than leased. And at a current $7/mth to lease a cable modem it's paid for itself many times over. Read the rest »
Oh No! My iPhone 4s Is A Flop
I've had my iPhone 4S for about a week and now I read that it's one of the top flops of the year. Read the rest »
One Less Hard Drive Manufacturer
Seagate's purchase of Samsung's hard drive manufacturing is official today and Hitachi's drive business is going to Western Digital. Naturally my most recent drive of choice was Samsung with a couple Hitachi's thrown in when the price was right. Read the rest »
Cloudberry Backup For WHS 2.6 Released
Cloudberry has released Cloudberry Online Backup 2.6 which includes Continuous Data Protection. I've upgraded and have enabled CDP for one of my backup plans. I had some upgrade problems with the last couple of updates and tried to clean things up. Hopefully they're a thing of the past. Read the rest »
My Kindle Fire Review
I've had the Kindle Fire for a few weeks so it's time to review how it's settled into my daily routine. There are parts of it that are done well, some that are rough around the edges and one that's a horrible failure. Read the rest »