I’ve gotten busy at work lately with a rather fun and challenging project around disk imaging for a enterprise customer. I’m rolling out a DRBL Clonezilla server that will image 10 systems at a time. It runs on my Ubuntu 8.04 desktop which is a Dual Core box with 4g or so of memory and two network cards. I’m building the Clonezilla image files now and tomorrow I roll it out for some testing.
The deliverables are all contained between now and Xmas but the project goes on until February or so. I took a few hours when I found out I was going to support this architecting my proposed solution and then preparing a backup of a critical disk drive that was the only one that was not corrupted.
Other News and Notes
Its gonna be Xmas in just a week or so and I have this hibernation feeling coming over me where I don’t want to go out and do stuff. Perhaps that’s caused by the weather or something… I’ll have to try and do something next week when I’m off for a few days.
GTD revisited
GTD requires a lot of persistence I think. I’ve gone from using Tracks to trying out Thinking Rock which is a Java application so I can run it on Windows, Linux, whatever. I’m using it with this nifty little backup and sync thing called Dropbox which runs on Linux and Windows and makes synchronized copies of various and sundry files that you want to share. I’m also using it with Wikidpad to note my journeys on the project above and then provide the notes to the customer as a series of “howto” documents.
The main thing is I am not completely sold on GTD since it appears to me that its at least as much work if not more maintaining the contexts and actions as it is just including them in a file. Perhaps GTD requires one of a certain mindset; able to take the brush strokes of life and paint them into noticeable arrays.
I’m going to stay using GTD ideas to help me manage all the tasks; but its not the primary mover.
We’ll see how it goes 
