We have a lab at work for the various sales engineers to use. We’ve done a home-brew boot-from-iSCSI farm of servers so we can change boot luns pretty easily, based on a NetApp FAS270 (old cheap but reliable for the moment.) I had the iSCSI initiator in the BIOS set up and could see it… Read More »
Google, you are pushing me away. Let me count the ways, and then I’ll go back over the next few days and write up details on each. You’ve kicked my friend’s web site out of Adsense, because he has other advertisers that you don’t like. This is costing his company thousands of dollars a month,… Read More »
Google has lost its way. Or maybe it never had a way. Google+ requires a Google Profile. These are only available to people who have a regular Google account (Gmail). Profiles are NOT available to people who have Google Apps accounts. My primary email domain, and my preferred account is my email at plein.org. This… Read More »
I whipped up a batch of baby back ribs on my Traeger grill yesterday. OK, maybe whipped isn’t the right word. I bought 3 racks of ribs from the local butcher on Friday. These were not pre-packaged/sealed/prepared, just plain ribs. Saturday night, I mixed Pappy’s rub (their reduced sodium offering) with sugar, and rubbed down… Read More »
So, you run a small webserver, maybe even on your home DSL? Yes, I do too. A couple of years ago I was toying around with some ideas and almost created an Amazon EC2 account, but didn’t at the last moment. I’m glad I didn’t. I went to check something out at Amazon’s EC2 site,… Read More »