Archive for August, 2009

Airline seat pitches

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

In response to this article on The Age
Is seating space a big issue for you? Would you pay, say, 5% more for extra legroom in standard economy, instead of the high rates currently being charged for premium economy? Which airlines have given you the best deal on space – have allowed you to sit in [...]

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Backup – what you need to consider

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Ah a topic dear to my heart. Both my business partner and I care fanatically about data integrity and hence backups. I guess that makes us appropriate people to manage data for people
We address backup from multiple dimensions:

Prevention
Technology
People
Risk Events
Recovery Times
Economics
Communication

1. Prevention
We use software RAID1 under Linux on commodity PC hardware. We also use [...]

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