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Bucketworks is moving!

Good news! Bucketworks is moving… It’s good news because Bucketworks won’t just disappear, but it’s “challenging” news because a lot of work will be involved. But you can help!

As you may know, Bucketworks was a big part of making BarCampMilwaukee happen, and making sure everyone involved had a great time.

Read about the move, and if you can help, please get involved. The folks at Bucketworks (typically) aren’t a bunch of tech geeks, so if you can do networking or help with computer-related things (or anything else really!) step up and do it.

Thanks, yo!

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Mail.app almost gone

I almost ended up dumping Apple’s Mail.app this weekend. Sure, I’ve been using it for many years (it must be at least 5 by now) but at some point this weekend it just stopped getting mail from my server. I tried a server reboot, I tried a Mac reboot, I tried deleting cache files. I tried searching Google for solutions. I could see my mail using a webmail client, and using IMAP via Thunderbird, but Mail.app just would not retrieve the messages. Oh, it did finally get all the mail up to a point (exactly where it stopped last time) after I deleted the file that tells Mail.app what it already downloaded, but it still did not get all my new mail.

Mail.app almost gone

Typically I leave mail on the server for one week before deletion. This has worked fine for years. I’m still not sure that was the problem, but I connected via Thunderbird (using IMAP) and deleted every old email I knew Mail.app had downloaded, and tried again. That seemed to do it, and the mail started flowing again. Freakin’ weird…

Could one (bad) email have caused the problem? If so, it seems weird that it took so long for me to have this happen. Unless Apple managed to break Mail.app (even more) over the years. Anyway, I post this here for the next person who has this problem. Good luck!

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Cream City Photogs

While the future of Bucketworks is uncertain, tonight you can stop by and see the work of a bunch of area photographers who all use Flickr.

Friday, April 20th, 2007, it’s the Cream City Photogs Spring Gallery Night Exhibition!

You might also want to check out their site at creamcityphotogs.com. It’s great to see a group like this form in Milwaukee. (We need more web-activity in the area!) Milwaukee is where I grew up, and I’m still pretty close (30 minutes west) so I tend to check out Milwaukee photos on Flickr quite a bit.

I’m even proud to say I had a (very) small part in making this thing happen. I suggested Bucketworks as the venue. (We had a great time there at BarCampMilwaukee!) I hope it all works out well. I wasn’t able to be as involved as I would like (too many projects going on at once!) Congrats to the Cream City Photogs for pulling this thing together.

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Amazon S3 Update

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2007-04-19

Over at Z2 Marketing + Design we’ve implemented Amazon S3 as an off-site backup solution. As a design studio, there are a lot of large files, between photo and video shoots, print projects, and a zillion other things that require creating files, we’ve got our own storage issues to deal with. Will the building burn down? Dunno, it might, but if it does, it will be nice to know our data is safe over at Amazon.

Since I’m still moving a lot of older data there, the uploading is constant. I’d estimate I’m moving about a GB of data per day right now. In fact, let’s look at the numbers…

Amazon says we’ve transferred 16.035 GB this month, and we’re storing about that much as well. But wait, what is the cost of this? Well, as of right now, it looks like Amazon will be billing us just about $5 or so. (Probably a bit more, as I have another 11 days to keep moving data there.) So for the cost of a good burrito, we’ve transferred and stored over 15 GB of data. Freakin’ awesome!

I’m still not 100% happy with the tools, and how I’m doing the transfers (much of it is manual right now) but better tools will come along, and with a new server in-house, we’ll look at automating all the backups, so it “just works” and if something doesn’t work, it’ll let us know. Thanks Amazon!