I received the drive cage and loved it so I ordered some more parts for my file server. In all this is what I have (drives were just ordered).

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+, Socket AM2
• G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
• ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 Motherboard
• MSI GeForce 7300LE 128MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCIe Video Card
• SYBA SD-CF-IDE-BR IDE to Compact Flash Adapter (Bracket Version)
• 3x SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B Black 5 Bay Hot-Swapable SATA HDD Enclosure
• 9x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB Hard Drives

I went ahead and bought a 9th hard drive so that the model and firmware would be the same if a drive happened to die. I am going to be doing a burnin on all the hardware when the drives arrive to make sure anything that is bad will fail so I can RMA it. I changed from Areca to Adaptec for my RAID card and they just sold out of the Adaptec. Hopefully the price will not go back to $500. After being formatted and put in a RAID6 array I will have 4.09TB of storage space.

It looks like our electronic devices can be searched by customs when entering the US. This somewhat violates the 4th amendment, however there is a border exception to the 4th amendment and unless I am wrong you are not officially in the US until you pass customs/border so the amendment would not apply.

A lot of company policies state that you should not be holding confidential information on laptops in the first place, but email, and browser cache can contain that information. To help prevent the information from intranets from being cached you can install JohnnyCache. JohnnyCache lets you enter in a url pattern and will prevent disk and memory based cache from being accessible when viewing a site matching that pattern. I highly recommend you install this extension regardless of your traveling habits.

I am going to be writing additional posts about handling these searches. These posts are going to be directed at protecting corporate information and personal information.

If you have ever done any contract work or had to actually work with customer requests you will probably get a good laugh out of Clientcopia. I recommend the top 20 list.

It’s one thing when a client is just not knowledgeable about what you are doing for them, I mean that is why they are paying you, but when people get pissy they need to be let go quickly.

Example:

Me: “What’s your email, sir?” Tom Smith: “Tom Smith… t-o-m-s-m-i-t-” Me: “Tom Smith, got it..” TS: “And it’s all together, ok? No spaces. And don’t use any capitals, do you hear me? All in lower case!” Me: “Yes, tomsmith in all lower case. Got it. And your email provider, sir?” TS: “Huh?” Me: “The part after the @ sign.” TS: “What sign?” Me: “Sorry, I mean what does it say after your name?” TS: “Well, it’s this… a inside a bubble…” Me: “Yes, that’s right, the @ sign, and after that?” TS: “It says hotmail… not m-a-l-e, not like a hot man.. h-o-t-m-a-i-l.” Me: “Got it, mail as in e-mail.” TS: “Not e-mail, hotmail! You’re not using capitals on that, are you?”