Yesterday at the Faire

[mdlbear]

The Maker Faire, that is. Went up with selkit and the chaoswolf; the flower_cat wanted to go but wasn't feeling up to that much walking. This was my first faire; it won't be the last.

Lots of fun things to see. The Wolfling was bored -- not my problem, though I'm still puzzled about where we went wrong in her upbringing. I mean, flamethrowers, battle bots, weird funky vehicles, weird funky music-making robots... what's not to like?

Microsoft had a whole hall to themselves, the featured product was the upcoming "home server". Had a nice discussion about backup, which is its main new feature. They can apparently make an incremental, compressed, "cluster-level" image of a live filesystem. Of course, that means it's tied to their proprietary filesystem, it's hard to get individual files out of the backup, and it's sensitive to errors. I'll stick to rsync and cp -p, thanks.

Took more pictures than I usually do, but they're still on the camera and I haven't been maintaining any kind of web-accessible gallery in any case. Have to work on that. After the album is done.

(Geeky side-note: Trantor has been up all night with X running, so I'm reasonably certain the too-fast memory was the problem.)