Processing 300 BLK Brass

Here's one process, anyway:

The brass is first cleaned and polished including a final polish in stainless steel to get that new car shine. It is then deprimed using a Dillon Universal Depriming Die and trimmed to 300 BLK length using a Dillon RT1200. All cases are trimmed to no longer than 1.355 +/- .003 to fall within SAAMI specs, which should allow you to reload several times before having to do any trimming yourself. The cases are then swagged [sic] using a Dillon Swagging [sic] tool to remove the military crimp from the primer pocket.

mhddfs & GlusterFS

I haven't posted any links for a while.  They've been piling up.

There's a FUSE plug-in for Linux called mhddfs that aggregates storage devices into a single virtual filesystem.

I'm thinking I'd like to use a SATA port multiplier to pull together a bunch of drives.  (Such as those made by DAT Optic.)  Unfortunately, that system wouldn't have any redundancy, although one could still copy to individual drives manually to establish multiple copies.

I also found reference to a distributed filesystem called GlusterFS that appears worthy of further investigation.

Addendum: SATA-IO has an article about port multipliers and the difference between implementations, i.e. command-based switching (CBS) vs. FIS-based switching (FBS or just FIS).

Porn Face

This collection of before and after images is highly disturbing.  The power of cosmetics is truly frightening.