Random short take #106. Looking for old news? I’ve got just the thing. Let’s get random.
- Jeff Geerling writes about recapping his 5 year old studio monitors. I’m posting this mainly because I’m inept when it comes to these kind of things.
- I promise this isn’t just a list of Jeff Geerling articles, but here’s another one he wrote about exploring a modern SMPTE 2110 broadcast truck with his dad. I’m fascinated by all of the different media and entertainment technology that’s out there, particularly storage. I’m the first to admit I have limited exposure to it, so these kind of articles are great.
- Adam writes about why they (BinaryLane) choose local storage over Network-Attached Storage – and why HA belongs at the application layer. It’s an interesting take, and one I don’t entirely disagree with. Having had exposure to various storage availability solutions over the decades, it can sometimes feel like the blast radius is too great when something goes wrong. And things do go wrong, even with the good stuff.
- Curtis posted some thoughts to accompany his podcast episode on why the 3-2-1 Rule is dead and why we need 3-2-1-1-0. It’s a lot of numbers to remember, and if you’re not already doing 3-2-1 at a minimum, you need to look into it.
- Interested in running the VCF Download Tool (VCFDT) on Apple macOS? William Lam has you covered.
- Over at El Reg, we are living in the worst timeline, as Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info.
- Also at The Register, Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote. I don’t know if it’s delight or bewilderment the children are feeling, but it’s nonetheless a cool project.
- Finally, if you’re looking to shutdown your Spotify Family plan, but your children don’t want to lose their playlists, etc. the solution is to get them to move off the plan to the free tier first. Which seems obvious in hindsight, but these companies spend a lot of time explaining how to get on family plans, but don’t really talk much about what happens when your children grow up.