Back to the labs….

Posted on August 10, 2006
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So we’re still trying to prune the clutter here at gulker.com World HQ, now that the Paperless Project is in place. We were struggling with the decision to retire the G4 Cube, but now that it’s the big-format scanning workstation I guess we’ll keep it around. So I  think the Mac OS X Server will either go to the garage rack, or we might consider selling it.

So the two Mac minis will take over LAN DNS from the G5 server and Cube (since the Cube will often be booted into Mac OS 9), which means more fun hacking BIND. I don’t think my DNS servers are forwarding properly, so we’ll be spending some time with titles like DNS and BIND. We could also put the Linux box to work as a DNS machine -  hacking BIND is no more or less dificult on Linux than Mac OS X. It’s about hacking prefs files with tricky strings full of semicolons, angle brackets, curly braces and other marginally human-friendly notation…

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6 Responses to “Back to the labs….”

  1. pauldwaite on August 10th, 2006 10:57 am

    I started reading that BIND book! Since I got O’Reilly’s Safari bookshelf, I’ve started reading a lot of books. But I find it hard to finish, and I feel like I take less in and recall less well than paper copies. But it seems cheaper (although I haven’t sat down and worked out whether it actually is, for the amount of reading I do), and having the title searchable at work at at home without lugging books around is pretty addictive convenience.

  2. cg on August 10th, 2006 1:50 pm

    Safari dramatically reduced my spending on tech manuals… plus I can usually pull up just what I need - e.g the chapter on BIND config syntax - pretty easily, and swap in and out to get the docs I need this month.

  3. Mike K. on August 10th, 2006 11:14 pm

    Hi there,

    Just wanted to drop you a note about your paperless project: I work for an Apple reseller and was so impressed with the little Fujitsu scanner you used that we ordered a couple for the store and have been demoing them with Kip - people love it.

    I wrote a tiny little folder action script to import the PDFs into Kip (or is it Pik now?) and I can’t believe how fast that Fujitsu scans a pile of documents. I’ll be picking one up for myself in a couple weeks so that I can make my way thru the pile of paper we have in our home office.

  4. Tester on August 11th, 2006 8:36 pm

    Testing the commenting editor…

  5. cg on August 12th, 2006 8:38 pm

    Mike-

    Yeah, it’s a cute scanner. Worked wonders for me….

  6. Marcos on August 16th, 2006 1:34 pm

    Hi Mike,

    could you share the folder action script you made to import the files to Kip

    thanks,

    marcos

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