ZFS File System...now that's big

As I surfed the Internet tonight, came across an article about the ZFS File System. Not being familiar with it, I did a bit of reading to learn more, as that is what one may due when trying to learn.  Anyway, looking on WikiPedia, I found an interesting assertion that frankly, made my head hurt.

If a billion computers each filled a billion individual file systems per second, the time required to reach the limit of the overall system would be almost 1,000 times the estimated age of the universe.

Wow, not that's a lot of data.  Makes you wonder how much it really is...ok, maybe not.

Flight Status using Google SMS

Tonight, while reading through Lifehacker, came across a great post on checking flight status using Google SMS. Apparently, by sending a text message to Google SMS like "Southwest Flight 48", you will receive a message back with the status of the flight. As a frequent traveler, this is way cool.

No keyboard found, press F1 to continue

Over the last week, been working to remove some spy ware, trojan horses, and other viruses that recently got onto my mother-in-laws computer. During one of the reboots, I got an error message during the system check:

No keyboard found, press F1 to continue.

Hmmmm, would like to if the keyboard was found.

10 Reasons Why Developers do not Make Good Hardware Administrators

Early this year, we had a power spike at our house during a wind storm...the net result, our home computer became unstable. Here are 10 reasons why developers don't make good hardware administrators:

1. Can't tell if the root drive failed
2. Can't tell if the power supply failed
3. Get lucky flashing bios first time
4. Get unlucky trying to flash bios second time (note, it's not good for your machine to power off during a flash).
5. Purchase new main board because first main board got fried during the bios flash
6. Tries fitting an ATX power supply into a MicroATX case
7. When putting full size ATX power supply into MicroATX case, the optical drive (7 3/4" long) will often not fit together, i.e., can't stuff an elephant in a 32oz jar of peanut butter
8. Tries fitting a MicroATX power supply only to find out it pushes the CPU core temperature over 150 degrees within 2 minutes of turning on (still can't figure out why this happened).
9. Refuses to contact technical support (this might be more of my own fault, I'm a bit thick headed).
10. Software Makes Sense!

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Update: Apparently some of the Geek Squad corporate manuals have been leaked. One of which is their trouble shooting guide, what they use when you bring your broken computer into BestBuy. I could have used this earlier.