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hard disk economy

Posted by cafuego on Thursday 13 March 2008. In categories &hardware  &graphs

Over the past few weeks I've bought a handful of Western Digital 500GB hard disks for various clients to use as rdiff-backup targets and also for use with mythtv at home. As a kind of might-be-interesting exercise, I kept an eye on hard disk prices at my local CPL to see if there might be more or less opportune moments to buy disks.

The prices used in the price per GB calculation are for the cheapest SATA model of a specific size.

The resulting graph is mainly unsurprising:

zimbra musings

Posted by cafuego on Wednesday 12 March 2008. In categories &zimbra  &kindacool  &features

I spent some time today upgrading a Zimbra (OS edition) installation from 4.5 to 5.0. I run it an install locally and a client also runs it on-site for their own mail.

The client in question wanted to be able to share mail folders between users, something that version 4.5 never did on the "free" version. However, 5.0 does.

Taswegia

Posted by cafuego on Monday 10 March 2008. In categories &open source  &conference  &linux.conf.au  &marchsouth  &GREEN

The ghosts of conference(s) past meeting took place in Hobart over the past weekend and some members of the Mel8ourne team as well as a few other previous LCA organisers all got together with the LCA09 team to pass on information and share experiences.

I had been to Tasmania for a few days many moons ago, but had forgotten what Tasmania looked like. Wonderful, even though the grass is a sickly green instead of a healthy brown like on the mainland. If nothing else, 2009 will be the most beautiful LCA to date.