This Simon guy wrote a bunch of useful things about running a ZFS fileserver at home, including a discussion of why he chose it and why he went with OpenSolaris rather than FreeBSD/MacOS/Linux. He went through the same sort of setup process and decision-making that I did, but he did a much better job of documenting it for posterity. If you’re considering running (or replacing) a home fileserver, I recommend giving this a quick read. (via)
I’m back in Boston. Been back since Monday, but too lazy to blog. Plus I’m sure you don’t particularly care. Anyway, I posted some photos from my trip:
Photos from around the Google mothership. I realized after I came home that I didn’t take enough pictures of the iplex, but oh well. I saw some cute ducks, and at least one prosthetic duck. Also, a nervous little dog.
I went to a Pi Day Party on 3/14 (duh). There was some amazingly good wine (that is a three liter bottle of 1996 Silver Oak cabernet sauvignon!) I liked it. Damian smelled it, at least. (He doesn’t drink.) There was also a pi pie or , some smoking of fancy cigars, comparison of battle scars (he was in a paragliding accident in Mexico), and a Schwim. Sarah said that nobody ever gets good photos of her, and I promised not to prove her wrong. Brandon did a better job of making her look good. :-)
I had a great time in Mountain View. As I predicted, I already want to go back. It was great to spend some time face-to-face with the people I work with on a daily basis, and it was lovely to visit some of my favorite restaurants again. I should really take another trip to visit our New York City office before going to MTV again, though. Manhattan is an amazing place, as is the Google office there, so I’m looking forward to that as well, but it just doesn’t feel like home like Silicon Valley does.
Greetings from Mountain View, CA. I’m here for a week (til Sunday) to mingle with people at work and generally visit the mother ship. Look me up if you’re also in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area and want to hang out.
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