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I am really getting sick of the spam bolcker!

Tom, I don't mean to sound ungrateful for all of the work you put into keeping this place running, but I ask that you please move the domain registration to a different registrar.

CS, I'm appalled at Parsons' idiocy too, but it's going to take a non-trivial amount of money and time for me to move registrars.

If I'm moving one domain, I'm moving all of them, and that's nearly $1000 worth of domains across a personal account and a business account.

The added complexity is that the domains of record (the ones that have my nameservers), and my SSL certificate for my mailserver, are also hosted with GoDaddy. I'd estimate it's probably two or three days worth of hours of work to ensure a smooth transition.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but that to make it all happen at once, instead of as they expire, would take more time and money than I have to invest in it.

DPBD:

I've moved the macedition.* domains, as well as seven others from my personal GoDaddy account to NameCheap to take advantage of their 10-domain BYEBYEGD promotion.

I'll be moving the rest of the domains as I figure out which ones I'm going to keep - I have a bunch of domains that I should just let expire.

There are two which I will need to be careful with as I said above - the domain that holds my domain servers, and the domain that has my SSL for mail.

Awesome Tom. Again thank you very much for shepherding us!

Thanks, Tom!

Thanks Tom, I don't "speak" often, but check here regularly and as others have said better than I, your beyond the call of duty efforts are very appreciated.

Jerry

Thanks, Tom. I really appreciate your efforts. Have you thought any more about ways that board members might help defray costs (beyond buying things from B&H)?

Hear hear. And also.

Actually... which was the hard drive we're supposed to stay away from? Looking at http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/670117-REG/LaCie_301882U_2TB_Hard_Disk_Quadra.html or http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/744657-REG/Iomega_35115_1TB_eGo_BlackBelt_Portable.html

ddt

I've had three LaCie drives die on me. Avoid.

Not good.

But I remember something about problems with Western Digital drives -- is that still relevant?

ddt

Re: WD -- Yes. Despite the owner, different price points (even from the same overall vendor) can matter. Mechanisms can vary even among the same corporate parent. If you incorporate your own redundancy, things can be different (actually anyone, including myself in the category) who relies on a single drive is in for heartbreak, but it's like the difference between RAID5 and RAID6. Some vendors are OK for RAID5 (that is, you can replace and rebuild a single drive in an appropriate level of time) vs losing/rebuilding a second drive in the same period.

Back again! Finally decided we can afford internet again so I hope to be able to stop by more often. Tom rocks for keeping this place up and running all these years!

Welcome back!

Welcome back!

Belcome wack!

Thanks guys! Now what's the OMT gonna be?

Where've you been ghidorah? You still in Portland?

nah, I'm in Walla Walla and happily married.

I know, it sounds weird to me too.

Got married, moved to Providence, regretted it, had a kid (well, not personally, but I helped), developed a bicycle fixation, bought an Android phone, regretted it, gained weight despite commuting by bike to the train station daily, garnered 6200 favorites on Metafilter and realized, "If I was staying away from Spork to avoid drunk posting for accolades, why the hell do I have 6200 favorites on Metafilter?"

Took a week's vacation. Found the old G3 iBook, and won't buy another until Apple is sorry and makes me a new notebook with a non-intel processor(RUMOR! Ha-haaaaa!), fired up Camino, which had this bookmark, poured a rhum and diet, lit up a Dominican cigarillo, drew the letters back on the keys with a sharpie, and made a post just now.

Asian grilled salmon:

Marinade - 1/4 cup each soy sauce (the good stuff!), rice wine vinegar, pulp-in OJ, brown sugar, olive oil. One finger ginger sliced wafer thin and diced fine. Don't bother to peel it. One shallot, diced fine. One liberal dash California-style garlic powder (better than fresh, I swear), oh fuck the right-arrow doesn't work on this old crate anymore, liberal pinches salt and fresh ground pepper. Leetle teeny splash of sesame oil - overdo this and you'll regret it. Get a big fillet of alaskan sockeye, cut into three pieces, and dump into a ziplock bakc with the marinade. Stash it in the fridge for three hours, flipping and smooshing the bag once every half hour.

Fire up the grill on medium-high. Get a hunka tin foil, and spray the hell out of one side of it with canola oil. Put the fish on the foil, the foil on the grill, and it's done when the fish peels from the skin easy. Brush off the scallion and ginger bits.

Roast potatoes:

One box baby red potatoes. Wash, dry, slice in two so the skin side always faces down.

One quarter cup olive oil, with liberal pinches (two pinches!) each of salt and fresh ground pepper, dash California-style garlic powder (I'm really not kidding, this is great stuff), one dash dried oregano. Toss the potatoes in this, until they are good and coated with the gritty-oily-mess.

Bake at 425º for 45 minutes. Crunchy on the outside, creamy in the middle. Mmm.

Why the fuck did I post two recipes? More rhum is clearly needed.