Burgundy, France

Passover 2010

Jamie’s Baby Shower

My most recent frustration came when I upgraded a drive in my Drobo to increase the usable space to more then 2TB.  After the Drobo finished updating all of its partitions, I was left with a partition that was labeled ‘unallocated’ in the Drobo dashboard.  After searching the interwebs (which yielded absolutely nothing on Drobo’s site for ‘unallocated’) and posting on a couple of forums, I was led to this:

http://support.datarobotics.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23/session/L3NpZC9LZFU0M3JWag%3D%3D/sno/0

This is telling me that I’m stuck with adding partitions to my Drobo of maximum size 2TB because of a decision I made when I originally set it up, at which time I was not told how this setting would affect me as I add disk space.  Further, I think that Drobo’s claims of being both “simple” and “scalable” are misleading as this limitation is not spelled out up-front and if you don’t understand this, the affects of scaling can be considerably different then what is expected.

Now that I have have realized this, the only way to have 1 single partition again is to (in Drobo’s own words) “migrate the data onto another Drobo or storage device, reformat the original Drobo device to the volume size of your choice, and then move the data back.”  With 2TBs of data, not only is this a huge pain in the ass, I need to buy another drive in order to fit the entirety of my Drobo on a disk before reformatting.

I think this a huge failure on Drobo’s part that could be fixed one of 2 ways:

1. Be explicit about how setting this soft limit is actually a hard limit on the amount of space that can be allocated to a volume.
2. Drobo creates a tool to resize partitions to change storage space on a partition.

A tool in this situation would prove extremely handy and would prevent any confusion or problems when going over this thinly provisioned partition cap.

Any help here, Drobo?

Moving to Marylebone pics

Does anyone have a simple solution for this or know why the solution mentioned all over the web doesn’t work?

UPDATE

Pie in my face…  Under “Safari->Preferences->General” there is an option “Open links from applications” and setting that to “in a new tab in the current window” is the exactly what I was looking for (reference).  D’oh!

Trish’s 30th Birthday

http://www.beusergroup.co.uk/technotes/index.php/Xbox_Live

On top of this, you may need to forward some ports on your router:

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Thomson-Alcatel/SpeedTouch585/Xbox_Live_360.htm

When I get some time, I will try to confirm the need for mapping ports…

Thailand 2010

Note that this is the abridged version.  A complete album will be posted in the near future.

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5820548

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1207290&tstart=30

Any fix, Apple?

UPDATE

This problem seems to date much further back then Leopard.  I’ve found references to this same issue in late 2003 (v10.3!!), here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031130150826388

Unfortunately, I don’t have access to server configuration as my problem is with GMail.  It seems like Apple may never fix this…