... my rants & raves

Jan-212010

power outage

we had a 3 hour power outage that affected our whole neighborhood, therefore my server went down too.

luckily i have it connected to a battery backup which after a while gracefully shut down the server. nevertheless after the power was restored, the system complained about one disk in the RAID mirror being dead. funny enough it pointed to another disk after every reboot…

i removed the “dead” disk from the mirror (or better: the disk that it considered dead at that point in time), re-added it and rebuild the mirror … worked :-)


Published: Jan-21-10 | 0 Comments | 14 Links to this post
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Dec-22009

san francisco auto show 2009

at the same time toppi was visiting us the san francisco international auto show was being held at the moscone center only a couple of blocks from here.
so we decided to go and take a look :) accompanied by hans-martin we visited the show on friday 11/27 … it was also a good opportunity to test my new digicam :)











Published: Dec-02-09 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
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Nov-142009

"the used" concert @ the warfield

it was my first show at the warfield and i have to say i really like the location!

 photo gallery

 

opener were “the almost” and they delivered a solid opening act.
after that it was time for “the used” to enter the stage and for oscar & me to enter the moshpit :)
it was a pretty good show, although i have to say that the guys got somewhat tame in the last year… and the audience got way younger in average.

photos are somewhat blurry, but decent enough given that they are from my phone’s camera while 16 year old girls were bumping into me ;)

theUsed1 TheUsed2

after the concert we stopped briefly for a drink at “mr. smith's” and then ended up at the “bondage-a-go-go” party in my neighborhood.

all in all a pretty good wednesday :)


Published: Nov-14-09 | 1 Comment | 3 Links to this post
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Nov-122009

interesting analysis of app piracy

do you know the arguments people bring up when it comes to piracy of applications or games?
”i just want to test it, if i like it i’ll buy it later” or “if it would be cheaper i would buy it”?

an iphone app developer has analyzed the usage of his new game “Tap-Fu” in the first week after release based on the high-score postings.
the results are interesting:

  • the original to illegal copy rate is 1:5. so for every copy sold on the app store there are 5 illegal copies
  • no one who is using the illegal copy did later on buy the game (again this is only based on the first week of sales)
  • the top slots in the game’s highscore list are all from illegal copies

And given that this is a 4$ game i don't think the argument “i would buy it if it would be cheaper” is valid either :)

you can find the full article here, it’s really an interesting analysis.


Published: Nov-12-09 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
Tagged as: IT stuff

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