Ben, Jason and Dave talk about cereal (boy, a bowl of raisin bran sure is good with some Straus Family milk!), NFS problems and fixes, Hitachi disk event, and landing pages for small businesses using Google Ad Words.
Special guest: JoshR, customer support person and so much more for Joyent Connector and Strongspace.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
This week’s music: Hard ‘N Phirm’s “Rodeohead” from their album Horses and Grasses.
This week’s highlighted product: Straus Family Creamery. From the heart of Marin County, California. Just like Joyent.
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Any chance of supplying an RSS feed with enclosures that I can drop into my podcatcher?
Also, for levels, have you tried Levelator from the ITConversations folks? http://www.gigavox.com/levelator
Cool! “European-style” butter. As a German living in Belgium – butter-country! – I wonder what that is…
Great podcast again, thanks!
@Matt: I’ll definitely use this next week. Current set-up is Garageband. I updated the post with the requested RSS feed.
I’ve been having “Rodeohead” on repeat a few times a day for the past week thanks to Dave. Annoyingly enjoyable.
@Johan: Reminds me of Ween’s 12 Golden Country Greats.
Good job with the volume this round, much easier to listen to.
Definitely much easier to listen to – thanks guys!
I’ve enjoyed your podcasts – but as a SAN guy I couldn’t help chuckling about your interactions with Hitachi on Thumper. The little point you are missing as you bash Hitachi(not that they don’t deserve some smacking around naturally) is availabilty. Sure thumper is a great deal but its availability is certainly not at the level of a decent midrange SAN array. All the disk is local with single OS running the show. Versus, say HDS Tagma (or hell EMC Clariion running Windows… err I mean Flare) where at least you have dual controllers or some type of mostly seamless HA failover in the event of a hardware issue or eventual code upgrades and maintenance. Thumper however is just unavailable. Gotta compare apples to apples don’t you know.
Now when ZFS is clusterable – then throw that on a iSCSI or SAN array (say perhaps NexSAN if you need TB super dense and cheap) and now you are talking impressive.