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 […]

2007’s first p2 ‘victim’

Cassie’s vet bill is the first piece of paper to be scanned into p2 (aka Paperless Project) in 2007, and it was relatively easy to drop it into the scanner (the MP 530 this time since the ScanSnap doesn’t like stapled-on credit crad receipts etc.) and then dispatch the paper doc to the recycling bin.
The […]

Cruft (much) abated, time for the new LAN

After a morning in full combat with our deeply-entrenched World HQ LAN cruft, time and pending appointments dictated it was time to build out the new LAN as a layer, even though some further cruft reduction is planned (perhaps involving high explosives detonated in the house - sorry, dear). Photo above doesn’t really reveal the […]

Cruft

Cruft is, paraphrasing Wikipedia, hacker jargon for extraneous or low-quality things in general (but software code in particular). Cruft is redundant, old, or improperly made stuff which needs to be fixed, but tends to stick around, anyway, because it works, sorta. Cruft is sometimes said to be the tech equivalent of dust bunnies.
The LAN at […]

Gulker labs latest: the ‘cheesy crate’

Honest, I have been thinking for a long time about upgrading the LAN, making the gulker.com World HQ experience richer and easier to use and generally cleaning up the whole thing. I’m used to working against technology, defaulting to bad work flows because of a system glitch and otherwise working around things that should be […]

A very amusing day

Cassie and I made our .8358 mile circuit this morning uneventfully, thank you, before gearing up for a big day - Cassie by heading off to her indoor bed, and I by getting on the computer to wrap stuff up before dear friend Kevin McKean, in town for the holiday break (Kevin lives in San […]

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