No posts for a while, been keeping busy at work, haven't been motivated to come home and spend more time tinkering on my computers after spending 8 hours on my workstation... I guess sometimes even a geek needs a break. In lieu of actually working on my computers, I've been watching a lot of the British sitcom IT Crowd on Netflix, combining British humor with a little esoteric IT humor thrown in.
As I spend more time in my full time position here in our IT Office, not only am I gaining a lot of enterprise-level IT technical experience, I'm also learning a lot of the ins and outs of dealing with our clientele. Its been an eye opening experience to say the least, dealing with all different sorts of characters with different technical competencies. I hope to post more on this subject later, as it has sometimes provided good humor here in the office, as well as some definite frustrations.
I've recently stumbled across a potential need to RAID USB drives for mirroring (RAID 1). My roommate uses an external USB harddrive to store photos taken for her work. Unfortunately, it seems that only after using the drive for a month, it has already bitten the dust (although I still have yet to take a look at it). It occurred to me that a USB RAID array could be very useful, particularly in this situation, but according to Jason Khors of Big Bruin, this can't be done using Windows. Not surprisingly it can be done using Linux, using the LVM (oh what can't you do, Linux?).
But there still may be hope, seeing as my roommate uses OS X (which I've grown to dislike more and more since working with it in an LDAP enterprise environment). Apparently OSX can use external drives for RAID arrays, at least according to this article. Assuming my roommate doesn't mind me hacking away at her MacBook, maybe I can set this up for her, and learn something in the process.
On an unrelated note, here in the office we've gotten our copies of Windows 7 RTM, so we're mired in documents and manuals dealing with Windows 7 deployment tools- WAIK tools, Sysprep, WinPE, imageX, and SCCM just to name a few. While SCCM is a beast in-of-itself, a good resource for general 7 deployment can be found here. We're hoping to start using Windows 7's VHD capabilities for deployment as well.
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