The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[Bear_in_RoseBear]

our IT director even has some server space set aside for us to store music on

Now that's pretty nice!

[ecurbh]

Yeah, that was one of the things that encouraged me to stick with them even when they cut me back to part time for a while.

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you hear D & D have failed ~twice~ this week to get Josie to the vet. They can't get her in the carrier without her shredding them.

They even got a tranquilizer for the second attempt, but she was meaner drunk than sober.

They need falconry gloves.

I told them to go borrow one of those control noose sticks from the pound. He didn't like that idea, but I'm not sure he has a choice.

[RosieCotton]

Is Josie a tortoise shell, by any chance?

Just curious...the few I've known have been...um...cranky, to say the least. Why coloration should matter, I dunno.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I told them to go borrow one of those control noose sticks from the pound.

Oh dear... make sure you don't show him the Pinky the Cat video.

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh man... That's Josie! Poor thing. You can't just put a leash on a cat.

[ecurbh]

I like cats, but I just won't risk going near Josie. You can see the hate in her eyes.

She scares me.

[Ramius]

Something interesting has come to my attention lately...

Connected DataProtector, recently acquired by Iron Mountain. They have an interesting approach that I'm looking into. It's intriguing.

They have an interesting solution for backup of not just servers, but desktops and laptops as well... all over the slow wire.

The cool thing about their storage model is that they discriminate unique instances of any file, and only store one of them across all users. Changes are handled at the disk block level, not the file level.

They advertise that the average max change at the block level for most users is only ever about 2 to 4 MB per user per day. An amount that is trivial to keep backed up over even the slowest of wires.

It's a distinctly interesting option.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't have any pics of her.... she's a fairly flat grey color.. maybe a little tiger striping.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I would say the officer paid for his mistake in leashing the cat. ;)

[HairOfTheDog]

That was a pretty convincing screech he did ;~D

[JenB]

That really sounds cool. I wonder if retrieving backups is a pain? At work, we get a lot of requests for "the file the way it was in August" or whatnot, so we have a hundred days of stored backups plus quarterly dump-everythings. But backups are such a pain... I'm on this weekend and of course it's homecoming so I can barely even get there Saturday. Grr.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Yes it was! That video turns up a lot on various "home video" type programs. Supposedly the officer had to get a lot of stitches to repair the damage caused by Pinky.

[Ramius]

They need falconry gloves.

Or at least elbow-length oven mitts. :-)

Why, fertheluvvagod, where they trying to take her to the vet? That's a suicide mission.

DO NOT try to transport her in a car. I've tried to make this clear before. She will chew her way out of any enclosure, and she'll be under the brake pedal before I could say I told you so...

[ecurbh]

Well folks, it's been a long day. I'm gonna go get ready for bed before South Park starts.

G'night!

[HairOfTheDog]

Donna got a cat carrier... she can't chew through it, though I imagine she can project fluids out of it when she does her little Linda Blair ;~D

She has to see the vet... she has a sore of some kind on her back, like she's been chewing and there's a big matt of hair over it. They can't even touch it. They'll have to knock her out at the vets and see what's up with it.

[Ramius]

Apparently... retrieving backups or restoring a whole laptop is pretty easy. Part of their model is that if a user has their laptop stolen, the IT department can get a suitable replacement ready and completely restored with the users' files on it, up to the day it was stolen.

Pretty cool, that.

[HairOfTheDog]

On my way ;~D

[Ramius]

Oh, geez...

The only answer is to totally put her out. She'll be a whirling dirvish when they open that cage. God help us all. :-)

[RosieCotton]

On the other hand, it'd make an interesting horror movie.

The cat that shredded Seattle...or whatevertown.