Just got a new laptop through work – a new, shiny MacBook Pro. I’m getting to revisit my workstation setup decisions as I work to transition from a G5 tower to an Intel laptop. I have over twice the available memory, twice the hard drive space, twice the raw clock speed for processing power, and a user interface that is conservatively a billion times more responsive.

I’ve really been trying to post more refined and editied sets to my Flickr account, and it seems to be helping out my photo set views a little. (Yeah, I log in to look at the stats from time to time.) It’s nothing fancy – usually just a few views per photo, but I don’t promote my feed that much, and until recently, I was doing a terrible job of quality control. I’d like to think that’s changing.

Steve Job has finally responded to Adobe in a public fashion in regards to Flash. I must say that while I agree with Steve, at this point it’s almost like kicking a man while he’s down. The tide is turning against flash – most websites and devlopers are working to move away from flash. Even Google, who makes the Android OS (which may be the only phone that will support flash in the near future), provides an Html5 interface for YouTube. Hell, they even wrote the YouTube application for the iPhone.

I hate Flash with a burning passion, and I’m glad to see it die. I just hate it when people start to gloat.

Over the weekend two more drives in my main ZFS pool started throwing errors. I just replaced a drive in the array, so I will get a ‘new’ drive to replace a failing one in a few weeks. However, the pool is a raidz1, which means there is only one parity drive. A two drive failure will toast the pool. This leads me to think I should beef up my backup server – which isn’t quite large enough to keep all the data from the main server. After I have a full backup, I’m tempted to convert my main tank to a raidz2 – which would allow two drives to fail simultaneously.

It’s only a couple hundred dollars to get it where it needs to be.

The WordPress app on my iPhone just crashed twice, taking my posts with it. Dammit.

I’m looking forward to the release of OpenSolaris 2010.03. Among other reasons – a stable dedup engine, a simpler automated installer process, and most importantly for me, built in drivers for the dual gigabit NICs on my fileserver’s motherboard. This means I can either leave the Intel NIC in place, and have three dladm aware NICs, or move one over to my development box, Thor, which is currently running on ¹⁰⁄₁₀₀.

I really hope Oracle doesn’t decide to kill off the OpenSolaris project. It’s doing me wonders. But with recent moves they have been making, I’m not so sure.

I have been diving into JavaScript recently for a project at work and I’ve been working with an Ajax library called jQuery. It’s pretty amazing and it let’s me do a lot of things that would be otherwise impossible. I’m tempted to start writing plugins for WordPress and PixelpPost. If only I knew how to get it to load inside RSS readers…