Top Stories by Mark R. Hinkle
One of the many ways I put myself through college was as a bartender. At the
time I perfected my Bloody Mary recipe but as time has gone on I have
forgotten the exact recipe so I have been trying to figure out the right
proportions. This still isn’t quite right but it’s getting close.
Spicy Bloody Mary Recipe
I usually just buy a 64 ounce bottle of tomato juice and pour out the eight
ounces so I can use the bottle for the mix.
56 ounces tomato juice (I go for the low sodium Campbell’s but use what you
like) 2 TBSP Horseradish (if you grate your own that works, otherwise buy
some good german horseradish) 1 TBSP Old Bay Seasoning (crab seasoning if you
can’t find the original) 2 TBSP Worcestershire Sauce 4 ounces Clam Juice
(if you like clams you can skip this and substitute Clamato for the tomato
juice) if you don’t like clams then just start with 60 ounces of tomato ... (more)
If you are going to operate a cloud at scale then you most certainly need to
use some ways to automate the configuration and other tasks like provisioning
when you spin up cloud infrastructure. One of my favorite open source
projects for doing this is Puppet sponsored by Puppetlabs.
Puppet is a client-server application that allows you define roles and
configurations for infrastructure in puppet manifests then deploy those
manifests across numerous servers simultaneously. In addition Puppet has
another project, the Marionette Collective (MCollective), which allows you to
automa... (more)
Last Monday at the Desktop Linux Consortium Conference at Boston
University’s Tyngsboro, Massachusetts Campus there was a lot of talk about
a “UserLinux” distribution. The topic was sparked by remarks by Bruce
Perens who voiced a need for a distribution that was designed to meet
community needs for a desktop operating system based on the Linux community
favorite Debian distribution.
I contacted Bruce who has been kind enough to interject some comments to my
own text. They are marked [thus].
The thought of UserLinux sparked my thinking. The thing I like about Linux is
that it’s ... (more)
Colleagues and friends often ask me about Linux since they see it referenced
everywhere from Business Week to quirky IBM and Dell commercials during
football games. I am always eager to share my experiences - I say that it
takes a bit of time to get up to speed, but it's worth it in the end,
especially for those people who have been victims of the latest computer
virus. The biggest hurdle for them is usually installing Linux. However,
recent home-user PCs are making it even more practical to take the first step
into Linux.
Wichita, Kansas-based PC builders Stratitec announced a ... (more)
Linux is infinitely configurable. It's so flexible it runs on mainframes,
cell phones, PCs, even gaming stations and digital video recorders (DVRs).
This is one of its biggest strengths especially for those who want control or
the freedom to tailor a desktop PC to their specific needs. It is also a boon
to the system administrator who may want to configure the desktop to the
point where it serves user needs, not their whims. Depending on your
organization your desktop may be locked down so you can't install unnecessary
programs that can cause the system to fail. In cases like sch... (more)
Mark Hinkle is the Vice President of Community at Cloud.com. the maker of the 
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