Inverted Reality

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Month: April, 2009

all corporation-y

“The corporations sit there in their…
in their corporation buildings,
and… and, and see, they’re all corporation-y
… and they make money.”
So cool, except the ‘make money’ bit. I work for the public health system, there’s no such thing as money. Anyway, I worked in the city today. I wore a white shirt, trousers, leather shoes and a [...]

Review: Western Digital Passport Portable Hard Disk

Everyone needs a place to store their precious photo’s of their kids (or cars hehe), space for video clips, downloads, or your work presentations.
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I’ve had handfuls of external hard drives over the years. I’m currently using a couple of 3.5″ external drives with eSata on my Macbook Pro at home for video editing (scratch disk). [...]

Review: Apiotek eSata Expresscard

This wasn’t going to be a review, because I basically hate this product, well, at least I did until last night when I finally got it to work.

I’ve owned this card for at least a year, I’ve never gotten it to work with the two Vantec Nextar3 enclosures I have (USB and eSata combo).
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Meteor hits Perth

OMG panic! no, just kidding. Russell and I put this bit of crafty video together. Well, he did most of the work (the animation, editing, etc). I just video’d it. BOOM!

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Cat and Mouse

This is pretty much what our cat does all day (if she’s not sleeping). hrmm

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Require Storage

I’m just sick and tired of having data spread across a bunch of hard disk’s lately. I need me a NAS, RAID, the bomb.
I’m thinking Thecus, I’m thinking four 1TB drives, I’m thinking accessability and reliability.
It needs to provide file serving for multiple machines with different operating systems, it needs to provide a DLNA/uPnP server [...]