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- @haacked I drink beer, and live in Snoqualmie. According to my data sources that is near your current location?
- power is still out (36 hours) but I have a good book, light, and bottle of yummy @ArgyleWinery #snoqualmie #WaSnow http://t.co/S2nEMqcy
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Author Archives: Jono
iCloud Syncing
Today Apple introduced iCloud and their Scan and Match music syncing system. It’s a mechanism for multiple devices to synchronize file contents by transmitting all files to cloud based storage. Then when a new iPhone/iPad/Macbook Pro/iEtc is added to the … Continue reading
American Express Usability Failure
For a long time I’ve wanted to create a section on my blog related to web application usability. This morning I was pushed over the edge. So here it begins. While trying to sign up for a business credit card … Continue reading
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Aside >> Lost a drive in ZFS
I upgraded my storage machine to Open Indiana. Then after doing a zpool upgrade and a scrub I noticed a drive is marked as faulted. So far my data is still safe on three drives, but it makes me nervous … Continue reading
The First Roast
Last week my new Behmor coffee roaster arrived along with 10 pounds of green beans from Sweet Marias. Ideally you’re supposed to let the beans rest for about 48 hours before brewing them, so I had to time my first … Continue reading
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Thunderbolt in iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro
Thunderbolt is the new I/O technology that Apple released in the latest revision of the MacBook Pro. It’s basically PCI Express over a mini display port connector. It will replace FireWire in the future as it’s about 12 times as … Continue reading
Aside >> Quad Core MacBook Pro Released
Wow, the first time we’ve ever seen a quad core processor in a MacBook Pro. The processor speeds are lower than in previous generations but they all have the turbo feature to speed up individual cores to 3.4 GHz. The … Continue reading
Aside >> Adobe Flash 10.2: Great Taste, Less Filling
Nice work Adobe on releasing a faster, less battery sucking version of Flash. Now we can watch more YouTube without worrying about draining our MacBook Pros. I still don’t think Steve is going to let you run your code on … Continue reading
February 9, 2011
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Get Hot Yoga Website Launch
Today we launched GetHotYogaMV.com. It’s a website for a new hot yoga studio in Maple Valley, Washington. The owners are really hip ladies and did a great job designing the yoga studio and building their business. My wife has been … Continue reading
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Aside >> Where I’d Go
Brent Ozar asked the question as part of his iPad contest, “where would you go if you didn’t have to worry about your servers?” I’d take my 3 year old hiking in the Issaquah Alps. More than a few times … Continue reading
December 13, 2010
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Mirroring in SQL Server Denali
The new mirroring features in SQL Server 2011 sound great. The clustering technologies are getting a much needed update, and will no longer require shared storage. Having recently troubleshooted a broken SQL failover cluster with a quorum drive issue I’ve … Continue reading