A mortgage counts, it’s a colossal debt, and there’s an alternative to buying a house, I know that this is a difficult concept for people from the early 80s or before but buying a house isn’t always the smartest financial idea and it’s money you owe hence debt.

OpenWRT would be my choice for this project, I had a router on an old computer for a while and I wasn’t surprised that the performance was better than commercial options because consumer-grade commercial options are basically shit and enterprise level are too expensive.

The “rsync somewhere on the net” on a raid 6 is my first backup option, second is sync to another site in my home country. It’s better to not rely on 3rd party companies for your backups, plus if you try to rsync an empty folder (let’s say the local disk died and the mount point is invalid) you are not nuking all the…

MS Versioning doesn’t solve all corruption issues, and furthermore is useless if the disk dies completely (E.G. spindle, motor, pcb issues...). Backups on the same media are NOT backups, the explanation to this would mean going into details on how file versioning works and is off the point. These tools are just safes…

Certainly sounds like it :P

People just use E-mail incorrectly, it’s not an instant messaging service, there’s those for that purpose. When you e-mail someone you just have to realize that it can take hours or even a day for the receiver to get to your message. It wasn’t designed for “urgent” messages yet companies keep using it wrongly and…