It appears that the hard drive in my array is not failing – or at least, not as bad as I expected. I’ve done two more scrubs the disk with no errors, or increases in the error counts. I’m still going to keep a careful eye on it, but I’ve got a window to breathe in. If I can swing it, I’m going to put some faster drives in my Mac, and move the 750’s in my Mac into the array as hot spares.

Mr Murphy may strike – posting this may force the drive to fail. We’ll see.

There won’t be a picture of the day on the photoblog tomorrow. My upgrade is still running. I started it at noon, and it’s 8:30 PM. It’s almost to the halfway mark (%48), and it’s nearly ²⁄₃ of the way through ‘upgrading thumbnails’. 58,017 left. Sheesh.

Here’s another tool to add in, along side nikto and nmap – skipfish, an internal Google tool, hosted on Google Code. It’s written entirely in C++, and compiles cleanly on Snow Leopard (after libdin-1.18, which also installs cleanly).

Running the full tests against my Nagios VM took about an hour – and pushed about 4GB of data over the network to the VM. The report is comprehensive, and found two places where I’d forgot to validate my inputs for SQL inserts – which would allow for SQL injection attacks. This is very handy, and I’m going to keep it in my arsenal of security tools.

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UPDATE: 45 minutes later, it’s processed 10,000 more images. 65,181 to go.

In a press release recently, Nikon announced that they were going to start focusing on striking a better balance between ISO performance of their DSLRs and megapixel counts. This makes me a little sad. I’ve been lusting after a D700 for some time and this raises the question: is Nikon going to sacrifice some ISO performance for higher megapixel count?

I hope they leave the ISO sensitivity alone. I really want the D700, or it’s replacement, for two things – it’s full frame sensor and the insane usable ISO levels. I’m not concerned with megapixels.

Little kids get sick a lot. A whole lot. It messes with them. Recently, Qais spent another couple of days with his head down on our shoulder, sleeping as much as he could. It appeared to be a combination between a viral infection and some heavy teething. Along with that came a high fever and heavy congestion. My wife tells me he was snoring like I do when I’m having a bad night. Window shaking.

He’s mostly better – up and playing again, and sleeping better. Which means we get better quality time with him during the day, and better time to ourselves at night when he’s sleeping. I hope this means I’ll catch up on some of my photography and writing projects.

Don’t you hate it when a piece of software you have just discovered turns out to be unsupported? This just happened to me. I was writing a review of GPS Stone and I couldn’t find it’s link anywhere on the develoers site. Turns out, it was cancelled several months ago but the developer didn’t pull it from the app store.

The lack of a decent tracking app makes me wonder – how much work would it be to write an HTML5 app that uses the gps in the iPhone? It would save me frm having to deal with app store development.