Adding iSCSI exports to OpenSolaris for remote Time Machine

Monday, March 15th, 2010

There are 3 ways to Time Machine over the network (that I know of) Use a Time Capsule Run Snow Leopard Server, which allows you to set remote drives as Time Machine volumes Mount the iSCSI share via an “initiator”, and use it like it was a normal hard drive. I’m not sure I’d want [...]

Using custom functions in Puppet templates

Friday, January 1st, 2010

This eventually required a support ticket to figure out, so I’m documenting it here in case it’s useful to others. The problem: You have a puppet function you find useful. At this point custom functions are really easy to create and distribute via modules so there’s really no reason not to be using them. However, [...]

Updated “Inbox Zero with Mail.app” technique

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Back in March, I wrote about my technique for implementing Inbox Zero with Mail.app. Since then, the world has changed. I’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard, and Quicksilver has essentially stopped working out for me. (I’ve been trying to keep it up to date, and sometimes it kind of works, but my confidence levels are really [...]