in my latest quest to try anything NEW i tried those bush’s grillin beans, yes all 4 flavors. i’m not sure why cause baked/grilled/whatever beans are just okay to me. and all of these tasted the same. steakhouse, bourbon & brown sugar, southern pit bbq, and smokehouse tradition. i liked the southern pit bbq best. […]

we installed a networkable usb hub (usb over ip) by a company called “digi” today. installation time was minimal. we will be using it to mount USB devices to VMs hosted on our ESX servers. you have to install device drivers for each box you want to use the hub with. only supports windows. comes […]

ok i did install the unslung firmware like i said i was going to. it did work…sort of. since i’m back on windows i downloaded the sercomm upgrade utilty. then put the nslu in upgrade mode. everything went fine until the actual unslinging part. for whatever reason i could only unsling to disk2. never disk1. […]

after having some awesome tomato basil soup at cafe 101, i made a somewhat efforted attempt to make some of my own. ingredients: fresh basil (goes in last) heavy whipping cream tomato juice tomatoes salt pepper chicken stock shallots balsamic vinegar (small amount) yellow onions thyme red pepper flakes butter + olive oil canned chicken […]

it’s been a while since i ran nmap on windows. i like the gui util that it comes with – “zenmap”. i played around scanning various devices on my network. particularly, my linksys wet54gs5 wireless workgroup bridge. it’s one of the few devices i have that i wasn’t sure what the OS was. knowing linksys/cisco […]

i did end up fooling around with virtualbox. not bad at all. actually opens vmdk files with slight modifications. has snapshot capability and so on. fills a nice gap too because vm server, though it can be ran on a workstation, isn’t really meant for that. and vm player allows no snapshots or creation of […]

i spend a lot of time on my weekends just reading up on stuff lately. for some reason i decided to revisit IRC and randomly joined a linux channel, started talking with some nice people. they pointed me to a few podcasts out there that they had done, and a live one that was done […]

i’ve been reading larry ellison’s sort of biography – “softwar”. it’s quite good and i have to give credit to ellison for having the insight to not believe in the traditional client/server model. what’s meant by this is – some file/print servers in the background with fat clients rolled out to the public. i agree […]

i’ve known about a product named virtualbox for quite awhile now..i never really looked into it any further than just installing it on my laptop. virtualbox is a GPL’d piece of software that pretty much attempts to clone vmware workstation. anyways, it’s put out by a company called innotek, that i just now found out […]

todo list: make VMs of SLES (whatever the current version is) … various snapshots .. nagios and etc. freedbsd 7.x centos oes2 vmware _is_ the best virtualization solution out there. and they give out free stuff. and really with virtualization so well accepted nowadays…why bother dual booting anything? i mean i used to dual boot […]