Bogdan`s venting place

If it wasn’t for some talented people with a sense of humor, one could get in to a serious depression. Here are two funny clips from increasingly my most favorite place on Internet – YouTube:

Here is the first proof for “global warming” to exist:

Also, in our schools we can find tangible proof for the climate change (in addition to decaying education in US schools):

Funny, aah?

For years, I’ve been telling my friends – “Don’t go to Mexico- it is not safe out there!”. It seems that in recent years it became so dangerously, that EVEN AP started noticing the obvious:

Personally, I don’t see ANY reason to go to this corrupt, third world country. It has nothing to offer that US or Canada or Europe can (Have you been to Poland or Slovakia lately? They ARE both, beautiful and safe!). Oh yea – the pyramids. HOW CARES about a pile of rocks? Wouldn’t you rather go to Hawaii, have a good time and NOT be raped like one of the women described by the article :

Lori Hoffman, a San Diego-area emergency room nurse, said she was sexually assaulted Oct. 23 by two masked men in front of her boyfriend, San Diego Surfing Academy owner Pat Weber, who was forced to kneel at gunpoint for 45 minutes. They were at a campground with about 30 tents, some 200 miles south of the border.
The men shot out windows of the couple’s trailer and forced their way inside, ransacked the cupboards and left with about $7,000 worth of gear, including computers, video equipment and a guitar.

So, you obviously have serious crime in the region and the authorities (that includes American) are not concerned too much.

Local media and surfing Web sites that trumpeted Baja in the past have reported several frightening crimes that U.S. and Mexican officials consider credible.

Like there was NO credible evidence of police corruption and crimes committed on foreigners in the past… suuuure.

Americans have long tolerated shakedowns by police who boost salaries by pulling over motorists for alleged traffic violations

So the police extortion was considered “normal” and not a problem. Thanks for clarify this small “misunderstanding”…

It is a rainy day here in California, and here goes my 3 post today. This time I need to say something about my other passion – computers.
The time when there was only one computer in a household is gone for ever. Today, it is not a matter of “if” but “how many” computers are at home. Also, the amount of stored data has grown from megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes or few terabytes. We store more and more files that represent not only spreadsheets or (for the savvy ones ) Quicken/Turbo Tax files. Today we need to protect pictures and movies that represent our memories, our lives.

The “evil” empire (for some of the computer folk) fought back and … provided us with a fabulous (IMHO) solution. Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS). Product based on mature Windows 2003 server modified to provide headless access (no monitor required), backup of all attached workstations (actually- XP and above only) with software raid support (redundancy at the folder level), etc. .. One can buy this program on a CD ($170-$180 + tax) and install it on his own hardware or … (and this one is a better one) by an appliance from reputable vendors like HP.

Speaking of HP and WHS. The good folks at HP released server HP470 and HP475 which is basically a PC based appliance which is capable of supporting internal 4 disk drives (we talking 2-4 TB of storage babe!) and additional storage using external USB and eSATA interfaces. You can access this little and VERY quiet box via 1GB/s Ethernet card. You can “have” it for about $600 in a single drive configuration (add 3 extra 750 GB drives at $160 each and you have a monster).

Groovie….