Hardest game ever, I’ve yet to defeat the connection to the server.

In the Tech World there is a lot going on, for years Mac Computers have been attacked by viruses and the users were never informed, and if questioned the people at the apple store they were turned away in discuss.  Well that’s over, now Apple has confirmed that their computers, and iOS devices are truly vulnerable, so if you have one, i’d invest in a Anti Virus. Problem is now that Apple has admitted to the problem that AV that was once $30 is now $60..

You may or may not have heard but the US Government signed into law the right to take someones private property, with out due process, and with out any real evidence.  They are in the process of seizing domain names of companies they dont like or they think are breaking the law.  Case in point, they seized some domains of Over Seas businesses.  They did it just by a private company here in the states asking them to do it. Read more Here.

On the home tech front, i’m redoing my home network, making room for some expansion.  Parts of my cluster went down and everything is now limping along on two systems.  Not Ideal but hey I’m working at getting it back up to speed.

Last nigt I was doing some updating to the website when, I deleted and corrupted some important data that when lost caused the site to go completely down. Lucky for me I keep backups, lots of backups. Currently my backups run every 12 hours at midnight and noon and I have 600 restore points (almost a year). The only down side is it takes about 2 hours to restore from a backup

Never the less, the site was backup and running before I went to bed.

Moreal of the store is Make sure you have backups, make sure you have the ability to restore from backups, and make sure you test that procedure several times a year.  Now my 600+ backups are stored on site on a large NAS device, only 4 days worth are pushed off site so even if the worst of the worst happens, I could bring my website backup in just a few hours.

So how about that Super Bowl?  Great game, but i had less than 0 cheering interest.  Thats about all I have for current events, now lets talk tech.  Nothing new has come out in recent months.  MS is pushing their office 365, and if you’ve use it and paid for it congratulations for being a paying beta tester, because that’s an unfinished product. And you can get the same functions (just not as pretty) using free (or far less expensive) Google Apps..

I’ve now seen the first every (to me) working hybrid computing cloud.  It allows near instant access to replicated servers that are hosted off site in fully redundant data centers.  Heres my question though, If you need 99.99% up time, and are willing to pay for that sort of up time why not just build the data center, or move to fully hosted? To pay a company for that extra .09% is crazy for most businesses.  For the ones that need that 4th 9, they are the ones that can afford to build that data center and have everything under one roof.  Never the less, 330T.com is running in a local cloud, and has the ability to spin up in a moments notice in an off site cloud and the data is never more than 4 hours old.  Why? Because its my job to know who these things work.

Not much to report on the Tech field.  Some new software, hoping to get some new hardware soon.

I have figured out one thing, the older i get the more i dislike cold.