• personal

    The Top 25 Animated Cartoons From The 80’s

    I don’t know why, but I decided to put this article up on Medium. Experimenting with different stuffs. Hope you enjoy. People who were kids in the 80’s often reminisce and declare the fact that there are no longer any good cartoons these days. They say this with a look of nostalgia always on their faces as they watch modern cartoons (often with the kids). The 1980’s was a period where animated cartoons were just beginning to gain popularity — the rise of the Saturday morning cartoon. And unlike today’s animated offering, they were filled with deep, rich content that parents were comfortable with. Not to say that the cartoons these days…

  • Home Automation,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Xsan

    Lights Out Managing Mac Mini Servers with Vera

    There is no Lights Out Management for a Mac mini Server (btw, am I the only one that noticed that these are now called Mac mini with Lion Server, where mini isn’t capitalized). While the Mac mini Server doesn’t have the Lights Out Management (LOM)/IPMI chips in it, there are a few things that we can control anyway. Convention would say that we’d get a NetBotz card for that spiffy APC we’ve got, which can do minor automation and even a little environmental monitoring. And there are a few other systems out there that can do similar tasks. But I’m a home automation nerd these days. So I decided to…