Joerg Moellenkamp’s post explaining CacheFS has me excited:
Long ago, admins didn’t want to manage dozens of operating system installations. Instead of this they wanted to store all this data on a central fileserver (you know, the network is the computer). Thus netbooting Solaris and SunOS was invented. But there was a problem: All the users [...]

Posted October 1, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: CacheFS, filesystems, ideas, mac os X, solaris, Space Ship, SpaceShip, storage, Time Capsule. 2 Comments.

Apple’s Time Capsule is great. Seriously. When has backup been easier? But I need more.
The MacBook Air’s small storage highlights a problem I’ve been suffering for some time: there’s never enough storage. The slower processor and limited RAM expansion are sufferable, but storage isn’t. The 120GB drive in my MacBook Pro now is stuffed with [...]

Posted January 29, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: apple, elastic storage, ideas, mac, MacBook Air, Space Ship, storage. 15 Comments.

Call it a law, or dictum, or just a big stick, but it goes like this:
The value and influence of an idea or piece of information is limited by the extent that the information provider has embraced the Google Economy; unavailable or unfindable information buried on the second or tenth page of search results might [...]

Posted August 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: availability, big stick, dictum, findability, google, google economy, idea, ideas, influence, search, search results, value. 2 Comments.