I recently purchased a Sun Blade 1000 off eBay by accident; I made a bid figuring to be outbid and lo and behold, no one did and I managed to get it pretty cheap. It's a dual 750, gig of ram with 2 FC drives. In an effort to move my main home server to Solaris 10, I immediately ordered a SAS raid controller for it and hoping it arrives this next week. I'll be able to run 4 sata drives and use ZFS to move my whole music collection (300+ GB) on to a raidZ sata array. So far, I love it. I've wanted a bigger sun blade than my 100 I had just because of the dual procs and heftier case. Solaris 10 is just an awesome, awesome piece of software. Ive been a Linux bigot for so long and have always had aleast 1-2 sun boxen that ive worked on. Solaris 10 11/06 made me rethink my current Linux installations enough to trust putting all my storage, backups and pretty much everything else on it. If i was a developer I would love to get more involved with the open solaris project. I guess I could take on some documentation project to help out with. I just want to become more involved with open solaris.
In NHL news, I loved watching Luc Robitaille's jersey get retired. Luc was one of my favorite Kings, and it makes me sad to think I'll never get to watch him play again. I have to say I now love watching Kopitar play and is one of my favorite players to watch. I guess thats why I will always be addicted to center ice due to the fact I live on the east coast and love watching west coast teams play. Being that Calgary is my shared favorite team along with Montreal and Ottawa, I love being able to catch every game on center ice. My new upcoming project is to build a Myth box so that I can archive all the games I want on the solaris storage server and watch NHL year round. maybe record games that I know I will miss and watch them. I just need to have myth record them and store them.
Again.. do yourself a favor and check out Solaris 10. unfreakenbelivable.
On a sour note. Macy's credit department. I recently bought a few things in Macy's and signed up for Macy's credit so I could get the discount at purchase. not only did Macy's not send me the bill for my purchases but had their collections department call me at work and told me I was behind on my payments. I never received a bill; I got the shiny new credit card in the mail, but no bill; SO after talking to their credit department, I told them explicitly, i had not received a bill, the worker verified this as I had not been sent a statement and that I would receive one within 7 days. She said everything would be straightened up since I called. Lo and be hold, a fat $25 late fee applied to my total. I dont tolerate liars and those who make it difficult to do business with. I don't care if they are giving away gold off the racks. Once this bill is paid for, $25 cost Macy's a customer for life. I don't care, Ill avoid them at any cost over this.
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