So I’ve been restoring some Windows servers from NetApp snapshots today, specifically single hard disks that had been having problems (long story involving Windows problems, etc). I found this pretty easy to do once I got the syntax down – basically, all I was looking to do was to restore the C: of a server, but keep it’s D: intact – that way I’d keep the most recent data, in this case some SQL files, but could roll back to a point where the Windows OS was a little less hosed up. Mostly for my own quick reference in the future, this is how I cranked a bunch of these out.
…when I flipped the page over on my desk calendar this morning and noticed that the January 31st Virtualization Tip of the Day from the fine folks at PrintedOwl.com has this to say:
At the hands of useless GM managers, no less. They took a perfectly good and loved brand, successful in it’s own right and innovator of things like, oh, turbocharging and numerous safety enhancements that have personally kept at least one of my family members from being injured in an accident… and they let it whither and die on the vine. My first car ever was a 1979 SAAB 99, much like the one I found outside of Loveland a couple of years ago, pictured below.
Unable to find a buyer for Saab after a year-long search, General Motors said Friday that it would begin shutting down operations at the Swedish carmaker.
Tyler Shipman loves Pontiac Fieros so much he posed for his senior picture with one he bought for $150. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He’d need a miracle to finish his project car.
And boy, did that miracle show up in a big way. Watch the video above for the story.
We’ve always been impressed with the detailed, step-by-step guides iFixit has posted for MacBooks, iPods, and other devices. Now the site’s put every bit of its content, and future posts, under a Creative Commons license, one that allows for free, non-commercial distribution and modification, with attribution. That doesn’t mean you can go selling your own knocked-off repair guides, but you can rest assured that iFixit will get better international translations, and that its sometimes irreplaceable repair guides will stick around in one form or another for some time.
…I find it funny that AT&T has released “Mark the Spot” for the iPhone [Free - iTunes link], an application made for the sole purpose of telling AT&T when your voice or data service has dropped off the map.
Somehow I think this is not going to end well for AT&T. Do you think that Verizon just might be able to capitalize on this? Maybe? Or is it a potentially-successful attempt at reconciling how the entire United States feels about AT&T’s service?
