All of the news coming from the Wall Street, from State Department, and last election results got me into a very depressing mood. Luckily, WordPress.org announced a new version of their software.
The upgrade itself didn’t take that much time, and off I went into the new administrative interface. Different to be sure, but I do agree with the authors – much quicker and easier to use. I took some chances with this one, but it looks that there are no show stoppers that would make me consider a rollback. So far, I am happy camper.
It is just mind boggling how a New York money manager Bernard Madoff was able to pool a 50 BILLION $ scam being audited by a bunch of government geniuses from SEC … on a regular basis! BUT, the most ridiculous thing about this whole thing is – Lots of people knew that he was “cooking” the books, AND they still invested with him! HOW STUPID or GREEDY can you be? Well, this 70 old crook is going prison big time, but a lot of people will be left penniless. Sad.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
Alizee is a girl with REAL (unlike so called “Madonna”) talent, and she is so beautiful much more seductive, prettier that most of the rest. She certainly knows the difference between being sexy, and being vulgar (Brittney, you still need to learn that; Madonna, it’s WAY too late for you!). To prove my point, here is a YouTube clip with one of her famous songs.
I wonder if She actually recorded an English version of the same song» , but then again – who cares! She is French, and I love her music in her native tong.
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).
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