February 2012
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Backup for Lent Part 2: Recovery Point Objective...
Not long ago at work, my colleague’s computer died. The hard drive seized. Just stopped working one day.
Most of her work was previously uploaded to a common, central repository. In her workflow, she had a copy of the repository locally on her laptop where she would create new drafts. Every few days, when she needed to share that new work with her team, she would sync her new work to the...
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Backup for Lent Part 1: Recovery Time Objective...
A few years ago, I had a network attached storage device on my home network.
It was pretty great, until it left me high and dry (here’s my technical screed from 2008).
Looking at it from any computer within my house, it worked like a giant hard drive, and had a measure of resiliency.
This redundant array had a feature known as RAID 5. This means that if one of its several hard disks...
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For Lent: Get Serious About Backup
Whatever your reason, today is an excellent day to recommit to best practices around backup.
Over the next few days, we’ll be exploring your backup goals, assessing your risk threshold and taking tangible steps to re-posture for resilient, effective recovery from your next catastrophic malfunction.
Join the journey. Get serious.
Part 1: Recovery Time Objective (RTO) »
Part 2:...
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EV HOV Reciprocity: Maryland Bill With High Hopes...
At Well Known Fact’s urging, Maryland House Bill 683 (sponsored by Delegate Luiz Simmons, D-17) would provide Maryland and Virginia electric vehicle owners reciprocity on high-occupancy lanes in both states. Currently, these vehicles only enjoy privileges in the state in which they are registered.
While Maryland House Bill 683 is headed toward a March 6 hearing in Annapolis, a companion...
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EV HOV Reciprocity -- Bill in Maryland House
A bill suggested by Well Known Fact in the Maryland legislature will establish HOV exemption reciprocity with Virginia for electric vehicle owners.
Well Known Fact is very pleased to report the favorable standing of Maryland House Bill 683, entitled “Electric Vehicles - Use of High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes - Reciprocity with Virginia,” sponsored by Delegate Luiz Simmons (D-17).
A...
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Solving Problems That Don't Exist
Two stories this week to file under “solutions looking for a problem to solve.”
First, the non-scourge of charging electric vehicles (EV) using a power cable will be non-solved with the addition of wireless inductive chargers. It seems that people who have grown accustomed to inserting the hose-end of a gasoline pump into their cars for the past 120 years can’t imagine doing the same thing with...
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Who Says Electric Vehicles Have Range Issues?
Here’s the story of one opportunist who’s pushing 2,000 miles a month in his Nissan Leaf.