Recent Posts From My Blog: Technically Sound

Seagate Sucks
Seriously! Two of three 750GB hard drives that I’ve bought for a RAIDZ array have died and required replacement. Then this morning one of the replacement drives died. Stay far away from them if you value your data.

Security Guru acts surprised when personal information sold
Out of business, Clear may sell customer data You’d think he would know better! “They had your social security information, credit information, where you lived, employment history, fingerprint information,” said Clear customer David Maynor, who is chief technical officer with Errata Security in Atlanta. “They should be the only ones who have access to that information.” I guess [...]

ZFS & Mac OS X: A Future Imperfect
My initial work with ZFS on my OS X laptop has left much to be desired. Let’s just say that on FreeBSD the code has been worked on more extensively and that it feels much more mature compared to the work that Apple engineers have done on OS X integration with ZFS. The main snag is [...]

libvirt & python-lvm
For work, I’m coding a suite of utilities that understand virtualization and storage technologies to automate a lot of dull operations that administrators have to deal with on a day to day basis. I plan on using libvirt, a virtualization API to query the hypervisor for virtual machines that are running on the systems. Ideally I’d [...]