Stripe is a seriously cool product meant to help people charge “real money” for stuff online and they have just announced their Stripe Gallery which showcases how people are using the service.
Go ahead and take a look. I like seeing how many people are using the service to charge for different products and services, not just web applications.
I used to worship George Lucas because of the original Star Wars Trilogy.
However, I don’t think there is another person who has fallen out of favor with me as far as Lucas has over the years. It started with The Phantom Menace and has only gotten worse.
This article (from /Film), though, cements the decline as inexcusable. Here is the pertinent quote for you:
Entertainment blogger David Poland recalls Lucas’ comment on Wednesday at the Publicist’s Guild luncheon: “George Lucas, giving the award to Sid Ganis, who was the in-house publicist on Star Wars: Episode Five – The Empire Strikes Back, said, ‘Sid is the reason why The Empire Strikes Back is always written about as the best of the films, when it actually was the worst one.’”
Empire as the worst one? THE WORST ONE!? You’ve got to be kidding me.
No wonder the prequels were so terrible.
This weekend I noticed that my FreeNAS box (named Soteria) was getting filled up. It didn’t take me long to figure out what was happening: Time Machine was filling up with changes made to my VMs. Each time I would open up a VM, it would make small changes and so the entire VM storage file would need to be uploaded via Time Machine when I got home.
At over 10 GB a crack, it doesn’t take long to fill up 750 GB of space (especially when Laura’s hard drive is filling up as well with images).
So I was left with what I should do to alleviate the problem and came up with the quickest, most barbaric one possible: remove the current ZFS dataset and set up a new one. It was not quite as easy as I thought.
Removing the dataset from ZFS through the FreeNAS web GUI didn’t work, so I updated to the latest released beta for FreeNAS 8.2.0 and tried again. Success was close at hand. I created another dataset and thought I had everything setup until Time Machine failed on the first attempted backup.
Rule of the day? Don’t forget to to set up your backup user as the owner of the dataset you are going to be using.
After that small change everything worked wonderfully.
While this is only a temporary solution, it worked for now. I have Time Machine working like usual and should buy me enough time to gather together some more storage space so that I can push the entire system over 2 TB total and then I’ll make the following changes:
Everything else should be just fine, but the RAM is one of the areas I would really like to bump up along with (obviously) the disk storage. With 2 TB drives now sitting around $120/drive, things are looking better.
If you are making decisions for a business or organization, please provide your “underlings” the rationale behind the decisions you are making.
Making a decision and just stating “because” (or doing so by not stating your rationale) kills morale and provides no clear direction for your organization. Decisions seem arbitrary and when they are seemingly “pulled out of the air” it breeds discontent and, maybe worse, apathy for both you and your organization.
That doesn’t sound good.
So please, just take a moment to clearly communicate the rationale for the decisions you are making so that everyone, including you, can benefit.
I love Field Notes, and they just announced a new edition for their Colors line: “The National Crops Edition”.
Brings a smile to my face.