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What I’m reading and finding for January 23rd 2012 through January 28th 2012:

• At Twitter, The Future is You!-
  youtube.com
• Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search-
  searchengineland.com
  - Danny Sullivan
  

  The debate about what should — and shouldn’t — show in a Google search result for “santorum” has been well-documented, at this point. But I’d like to use this now famous search to illustrate something else: how it appears Google is taking its eye off the ball of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
• State of the Union 2012 | The White House-
  whitehouse.gov
  WhiteHouse.gov presents your portal to the 2012 State of the Union Address. Watch, Discuss, and Engage all week long
• Facebook Timeline Now Pushed To Everyone, Users Get A Week To Clean Up Profiles | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  

  You can run, but you can’t hide. Facebook’s biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, the Facebook Timeline, is now becoming mandatory for all users. According to the company, over the next few weeks, everyone will get the new Timeline. And here’s the important part: when you do, you’ll have just seven days to preview what’s there now, and hide anything you don’t want others to see.
• Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops | Privacy Inc. – CNET News-
  news.cnet.com
  - Declan McCullagh
  

  Colorado federal judge gives Ramona Fricosu until February 21 to decrypt her PGP Desktop-encrypted Toshiba laptop–or face the consequences.
• From Twitter – http://t.co/M6LVsDBR Google+ Relaxes Real Name Policy, Still Prefers ‘Frank Ricard’ Over ‘Frank the Tank’
• From Twitter – RT @bjschoneCheck out this site before you build anything with HTML5. Very helpful. http://t.co/Y0maLcvZ

Sites that I found interesting for November 13th 2008 through November 15th 2008:

• How Old Is Your Work Computer? – It used to be that every three years, workers would get brand new computers from their businesses' tech departments. But for many those days are over
• 8 Laptops Under $800 – MSI Wind – At A Glance – Reviews by PC Magazine – Out of all the UMPCs available in the market, the MSI Wind is the best deal.
• Silverlight: Live Mesh Integration, Surviving the Olympics and Future Expectations – Interview with Scott Guthrie – developerFusion podcast: Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future.

Last time I talked about the parts needed for the media server I built. I thought I would take a moment and show how I have the disks set up.

At left is a screen shot from the storage manager. I partitioned one of the 320GB hard drives into 2 partitions. The C: partition holds the operating system. The other 4 320GB drives are set up in a RAID 5 configuration. RAID 5 isn’t known for its speed but it does give me lots of space and redundancy should a disk suddenly stop spinning.

Our other computers are set up to back up their documents, etc. to The Media Server via a mapped drive. I will go more into that in the future. A RAID array isn’t the best back up solution. Removable media and offsite storage is better. Still, the data is mirrored from tiny spinning disks on laptops to a much more secure location so that gives an additional layer of redundancy. Plus, with all the data on the server I can devise a backup scheme to encompass everything.

The Tempstore partition (E:) is where all Recorded TV goes and is basically a staging area for ripped music and other things that will eventually get moved to the RAID array. The goal here was to keep temporary files from fragmenting the operating system partition. Additionally, there is no need to put these files onto the RAID array as they aren’t critical.