David Kellam

After 10 years of ignoring them, I’ve finally earned the right to remove advertising from my slashdot page:

Whilst it’s a low-cost move (particularly as they can presumably make that offer based on me having clicked maybe 1 ad in 10 years), it’s an interesting way of building community… I wonder what the difference would be [...]

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 [...]

It’s a while since I posted on this blog, quite possibly because I’m too busy with my new company and reading much better or funnier blogs. Oh well, in the spirit of the Festive Season, I thought I’d share a few gems from the last year of RSS:

Great post on today’s generation that echoes my [...]

Dear all,
By now some of you will have heard my talk about my latest project – A Global Obligation. Well the good news is it’s open for all (Web 2.0-compliant beta mode of course!) Please do your part for humanity and check it out. If you have any feedback or bugs, please let me know. [...]

I usually whole-heartedly agree with John Gruber’s posts. This time, I think he’s got a little sloppy towards the end of his argument. Specifically:

People who are already buying from iTunes would continue to. People who refused to buy from iTunes because of DRM might start. And people who bootleg would continue to bootleg. This situation [...]

In response to Richard’s post, I provide as a rough guide the following regarding any new PC purchase:
I echo those pains! John and I are constantly complaing about it: particularly Dell. Apple is nice and easy to follow. You can even run Windows on their MacBooks now
My advice to people is thus:
1. If [...]

All I want for Christmas (a month late, but let’s assume OS X Leopard is Christmas ) is an operating system that copies something from location A to location B, without choking in the middle. Do what you can, then give me a list at the end of what didn’t work. Or prompt me [...]

I have just signed up for a BigPond Movies trial. The link I got sent was:
http://www.bigpondmovies.com/user/homeExistingUser.php
This is curiously similar to the think for my old (2004) service, Webflicks:
http://webflicks.com.au/user/homeExistingUser.php
Hmmm… more than a superficial resemblance (look at the URLs, not the sites). Let’s delve closer:

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This shows a section of the rendered html, differing only by bits in [...]

Just when you thought System Architecture didn’t really count…
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/accidents/20-mishaps-maybe-caused-nuclear-war.htm

Joel Spolsky’s rant is an absolute classic. I rant like this about restaurants (although with less clarity!) – expect a social reviews site soon.
DRK