LAN chores: shopping for a new OS, upgrading NAS

We’re probably going to un-retire our 64-bit AMD machine this weekend. I’m digging around trying to figure out how to tuck it unobtrusively into gulker.com world HQ which is starting to sprout gear again as we’re ramping up a couple of projects. We had previously pruned much cruft from World HQ, and don’t want to […]

Zonbu pricing

When I checked Zonbu pricing, the deal is they want $99 for the machine plus 2 years prepaid at $12.95 a month, for a total of $370.95, well over that “I have to ask the spouse” magic $300 limit. If you choose monthly building, you have to pony up $249 for the machine.
So, I understand […]

Getting things done

So, there’s a new item on my ‘Get Things Done‘ to-do list: re-start Get Things Done. Yes, I hate to admit it, but I have been a back-slider, and a new stack of ignored papers et al. has quietly grown on the desk.
This morning I updated my Ghost Action to-do list, and actually got through […]

Watering

Cassie and I walked out to meet Linda on the return from her long Saturday Big Dish jog, getting in our 1.5 miles in the process. Back home we made breakfast - buttermilk blueberry pancakes (bad carbs, but they were so good for the reu-ion breakfast last weekend), with chicken-apple sausage and fruit.
Then it was […]

A few thoughts about the Lumix DMC FZ50…

Our new Lumix DMC FZ50 has been with us for a month now, and I’m really finding it a very useful tool. Its Leica DC Vario Elmarit takes very good pictures, and shows its Leica heritage in both good sharpness and contrast in the 10.1 MP images it produces. It’s amazing to be able […]

p2, aka the Paperless Project, finally gets a descriptive page

We’ve been promising to document p2 a little better than just a series of blog posts: done. It may be more than you want to know, but is, in my opinion, an easy to set up, easy to use system that makes documents much more accessible than they ever were as paper. It also clears […]

Dotcom garden in January’s light

Dotcom garden, as seen in this morning’s light, is dormant as befits a 30-degree January day. I’ve been keeping my eye on Sunset’s ‘This month in the garden’ feature, which advises this month to plant bareroot roses and tuck in the last bulbs. Not sure about roses: Linda’s dad’s last roses, a container plant, died […]

World HQ, 2007

gulker.com’s World HQ is in pretty good shape, if I do say so myself (’before’ picture left, ‘after’ above). A major cruft removal campaign, the installation of a new Gigabit LAN, collapsing all of the LAN’s extant services (and the initiation of new ones) into 4 computers (G4 Mini, Intel Mini, single G5 tower, […]

Electrons and bits

The new LAN was ‘officially’ installed tonight, complete with new, more secure firewall and WiFi, a guest ’sandbox’ LAN and a few more new features. In testing, it has been, so far, quite stable and fast, though more work needs to be done (including bringing the half-terabyte array back online).
However, I note that, while we’ve […]

The new LAN, almost

The cruft has finally been banished to hard-to-reach corners and cracks in the wall, allowing us to take the first run at getting the new LAN in place. We had visualized a more vertical substrate hugging the wall, but time prudence and our ‘deconstruct’ mantra dictated recycling the old LAN rack, also formerly home to […]

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