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Fun with PXE, redux.
You may recall that I'm serving up not only Windows Deployment Services capture and deploy but also Acronis recovery media over PXE. Well, now I'm also serving up Windows Defender Offline. When chosen from the PXE boot menu, it boots into Windows PE, automagically...
New story available! and bonus snippets.
Thing the first: My story "Ondine's Curse" is available in the latest (last, alas) issue of Electric Velocipede. Thing the second: I have two more flash pieces in circulation and forgot to post snippets! "Lady of the House": Aiele’s gold bracelets jangled as she...
They’re using HOW MUCH space?
This assumes a convention where databases are named after the responsible party with an underscore and a version number or description. It also assumes that running this script is faster than remoting to the server and looking at the directory. 😉 declare @dbname...
SFTP – copy smallest files first
I needed to SFTP a bunch of files ranging in size from 40 meg to 130 gig. The default behavior of "mput *" is to copy the files in alphabetical order, but what happens then is that all the smaller files pile up behind the large ones. This is bad because there's a...
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
I'll be reading with Broad Universe at WorldCon, Sunday at 10am in 007B (Convention Center). I plan to read from "Ondine's Curse," which will appear in an upcoming issue of Electric Velocipede. Come by and say hi!
Fun with PXE
At one of my previous positions, I was in charge of the PXE server. I like PXE, so I set up a PXE server here, too. It was a lot easier at my current place of employment, because I had access to the routers and the DHCP server. It ended up being a straightforward...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.