So yesterday, I started working on putting together a 16 drive storage machine that will serve as a temporary backup for the holidays. The machine in question has a 3ware SATA RAID controller, which in turn has a configuration utility which I used to set up a few volumes. Once the configuration was complete, I saved it, and exited. At this point, the controller had to clear the drives of data, and because all 16 drives are 1.5TB drives, it was taking forever. I started this process in the morning, and by the time I left, it was only at around 45% complete.

At work, I use git. For Exaile I use bzr. I like them both quite a bit. At work, we use Gitosis to manage our repositories and I have to say, it’s pretty damn cool. Nothing quite like this exists for bzr, so I ported Gitosis to bzr and called it Bazitis. The launchpad project page can be found here. Here are the instructions on how to use Bazitis:

Our company is growing fast. When I started in March, 2003, we were hosting our website with some company in Texas. I assumed the position of “Systems Administrator” (I knew Linux fairly well at the time, but I had no formal training in administration) when we moved from the hosting company to our first dedicated server colocated at Xmission. Since that time, we moved from a shared rack to our own cabinet, now housing 10 servers (one is currently powered off, because if we turn it on, we risk blowing our power circuit … yes, we are waiting on a power upgrade)...