2008/07/12 - educating some overseas leathernecks
The tan TTB is overseas again with a detatchment of US Marines on embassy detail. This volume, the "knowledge" TTB, is loaded with all sorts of educational films and programs (much content is from the Discovery channel and History channel) along with thousands and thousands of hours worth of reading matter in both eBook and Audio Book format. Here's to folks who better themselves everyday, including taking the opportunity to learn new things in their spare time. Some new images from these Marines can be found in the photos section.
- Deviant
2008/04/20 - entertainment for the Iron Rakkasans
The green TTB has made its way to the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne in Iraq. Hopefully we'll get some photos and feedback from those folk soon. Word has it that their distribution platoon took the time to deploy the TTB and a spare laptop in the unit's Morale, Welfare and Recreation center. It should stay there a while then move on somewhere in-country. Next destination is still up in the air.
- Deviant
2008/04/18 - enlightening the Marines in Dushanbe
Well, I am rotating back to Tajikistan and this time Deviant gave me the tan "knowledge" TTB to share with all the Marines where i'm stationed. It's not as high-brow, crack-open-the-books as it may sound, however. The "knowledge" TTB has things like MythBusters, Tiger Team, and plenty of other really entertaining options from broadcasters like the Discovery Channel, not to mention loads of really well done documentaries and historical films.
- AST Cell
2008/03/10 - entertainment to Iraq
The green TTB is making its way to Iraq to bring some much-needed revelry to the fianceé of the music teacher at a school where I consult. I hope that it makes it safely and quickly to his unit and that they send us some photos with a few choice thumbs up, etc. if it meets with their approval.
- Deviant
2008/01/23 - a new recruit
Well, we're back in business with the Tan TTB. A wonderful member of the hacker community, xor, sent me a new 500 gig drive and I picked up a new enclosure just the other day. Sadly, nowadays it seems harder to find the "Mini Portable Disk" style enclosures that the project uses. The one I found was from a site that sells discontinued items... and it only supports USB2, not FireWire. Ah well, I'll take what I can get for now. The drives are both hooked up at the Home Base now, getting updated archives of films, shows, etc.
- Deviant
2008/01/15 - TTB casualty
Groan. One of the TTB cases made its way back to Home Base finally today only to arrive missing an entire drive. Those involved in the project are very upset about this. Steps are being taken to replace the equipment as soon as possible. I am certain that with a little luck and a little effort we will keep to our schedule of having both the Tan and the Green cases fully updated and ready to go out in the field again by the time everyone arrives at ShmooCon.
- Deviant
2007/09/30 - a proper website goes online
I've spent the couple days of downtime that i had after speaking in Bergen, Norway getting acclimated to Eastern time before traveling home. This has involved a lot of staying up incredibly late and i've used that time to author an actual website for the Traveling Terabyte Project. While we're not hosting it with an actual provider yet, so there's no forums and email is limited... but it's quite an improvement over the bare photos page.
- Deviant
2007/08/24 - TTB #1 arrives in Tajikistan
The OD Green "Entertainment" terabyte was presented to the Marines stationed at the US Embassy in Tajikistan. Up until now, most of them didn't believe that the project was real... they thought it was simply an urban legend. We were very pleased to reveal the truth to them. They were pretty tanked when I gave it to them, but they love it. See its reception in the photos section.
- AST Cell
2007/08/01 - both TTBs arrive in Las Vegas for DefCon 15
Both of the current terabytes have come with me to Las Vegas in order to make an appearance at DefCon, an annual ritual. From there, they will be handed off to friends who are traveling overseas to active duty zones. AST Cell will take the green TTB back to Tajikistan and Valkrie should be connecting with associates in Kuwait.
- Deviant
2007/07/29 - home base created for the project
I've cobbled together some surplus parts and some additional hard drives in order to create a proper home base for the Traveling Terabytes. With 2TB of data storage, i'm able to maintain a local home archive of the content that is being borrowed by friends and family overseas. New donations can be added, low-ranked items can be deleted, and a this can serve as a master copy used to create additional TTBs should more hardware be donated in the future. See all the details in the photos section.
- Deviant