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Moving on..

By On 2011-09-02 · 1 Comment

Seeing as the election for the OpenStack Project Policy Board is going on, it seems only fair to announce that I quite soon no longer will be working for Rackspace. Instead, I will be working (still on OpenStack) for Nebula. If this is material to your vote, I apologise for not disclosing this earlier, but [...]

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Moving duplicity (and Deja-Dup) backups

By On 2011-01-20 · Leave a Comment

In my last blog post I said that I had moved my backups from an external disk to Rackspace Cloud Files and promised I’d explain how. Ok, so why bother? I had about 100 GB of data that was being backed up. I didn’t want to upload 99% of that, have my wifi go bonkers, [...]

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It only took me 20 years..

By On 2011-01-14 · 13 Comments

tl;dr: I now have daily backups of my laptop, powered by Rackspace Cloud Files (powered by Openstack), Deja-Dup, and Duplicity. I’ve been using computers for a long time. If memory serves, I got my first PC when I was 9, so that’s 20 years ago now. At various times, I’ve set up some sort of [...]

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OpenStack is open for business

By On 2010-07-19 · 9 Comments

Moments ago Rackspace announced the OpenStack project. Not only is this awesome news in and of itself, it also means that I can finally blog about it The Rackspace’s IaaS offering consists of two parts: Cloud Servers and Cloud Files. Incidentally, OpenStack (so far, at least) has two main components to it: A “compute” compenent [...]

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Not an April fool’s joke

By On 2010-04-01 · Leave a Comment

Today marks the beginning of my second month working for Rackspace. I’ve realised I haven’t actually blogged about my leaving Canonical, so this post doubles as an announcement about that, I suppose. A lot of thought was put into that decision. Ubuntu is an awesome project to work on and Canonical was a fun and [...]

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