I went and did it. I created a Twitter account for reasons. Late adopter, yeah, I know. But it is what it is, and it be what it be. Follow me: @PhaysisCom Initially, I created it so I can follow various accounts of the National Weather Service, as recommended by my recent SkyWarn training. What …
Category Archives: Technology
Interstitium
My tenure at Hostway has come to an end. Long live Hostway. I put in my two weeks notice, then walked away a free man yesterday afternoon. It was a long, tangled, messy 4 years, 5 months, 3 weeks. I learned a lot while there, but the biggest lesson of them all is that I …
Transit
Ultimately, all technological systems are mediums for human systems. As much as I love computers, networking, radio, etc., I still have to wrestle with the human factor. People are why those things exist. I can study and focus and fixate on the tech, but the tech is completely, irrevocably, in service of human communications. I …
FBI
Sometimes my buddies on IRC are alright.
Slap Head
For those who are keeping score, I’m a dumbass. So, I have a file server at my home that’s running FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD, a popular Unix distribution. I have around 7.4 terabytes of storage capacity across 5 disks; that’s a lot of personal files. I bought a single 8TB disk for the …