Author Archives: Bill Plein

About Bill Plein

I've been in the data storage industry since the 1990's, most recently with 3PAR, Fusion-io, and Pure Storage. I'm now with Diamanti, where we make Kubernetes easy and fast. I'm attracted to bright, shiny new objects.

Creating a macOS High Sierra installation ISO

By | January 19, 2018

Over the years I have created/extracted installation ISOs from the downloadable upgrades that Apple uses. Each time something changes slightly. I searched on the web and found lots of broken instructions from the Beta period. Finally I found one that “worked” at MacRumors.  But it doesn’t work. So I stepped through it line by line,… Read More »

Home Structured (re-)Wiring

By | August 8, 2016

Here was my problem. I love my home, and this is definitely a first world problem. When we bought the house, it had an alarm system (tan box) and a white On-Q (Legrand) 14″x14″ box where all the ethernet, phone, and cable (DirecTV dish) cabling terminated. I added my own 16-port switch below and AT&T… Read More »

Plein’s Laws of Social Dynamics

By | March 10, 2016

While observing poor self-moderation in a Slack channel, I came up with the following observations, that I am coining “Plein’s Laws of Social Dynamics” due to their forced similarity to the Laws of Thermodynamics.   First Law of Social Dynamics “A vibrant and well focused forum/channel/page tends to stay vibrant and well focused.” In other… Read More »