Ingredients:

• 1 Large onion
• 5 Jalapeños
• 3-4 Cloves of garlic
• Dry basil
• Dry cilantro
• 2 14.5oz cans of diced tomatoes
• 1 5.75oz can of jumbo black olives
• Sugar
• Non-iodized Salt (I have no personal issue with iodized salt, but for this recipe, non-iodized is necessary.  It matters for some random reasons)
• Pepper
• One small can of tomato paste.  If you have half a can lying around, you’ll probably use less than that in this recipe.

1. Chop onions small - you know, the little half/three-quarter-centimeter squares you like?  Yeah, just like that.  Put in some tupperware with a lid on it for now.
2. Chop jalapeños even smaller.  I don’t recommend blending them, but you basically want to end up with small bits.  It doesn’t have to be uniform.  Put it all in the same tupperware from step 1.
3. Add salt to the tupperware mixture enough to make the onions and jalapeños ”sweat” - this isn’t for taste - add about a half-teaspoon.  Close the tupperware and shake it all up.
4. Put the two cans of diced tomatoes in a medium sized pot on the stove and turn it on the lowest heat possible.  This is a slow-cook recipe.
5. Chop up the garlic cloves as small as possible, just like you did with the jalapeños.  Again, no food processor necessary - the end result being non-homogenous is a good thing.
6. Put the garlic in the tupperware with the jalapeños, onions and salt from step 3.  Add a tiny bit more salt.  Add pepper, basil and cilantro in proportions you’ll like - this is modifiable later on.  I usually try a 50/50 blend of basil and cilantro, about 2 teaspoons.  Add a tablespoon of water - more or less doesn’t really matter, just enough to moisten all the dry spices you added.  Close the tupperware again and shake it to mix.
7. Wait 5 minutes.  Lower the temperature of the tomatoes if your stove goes any lower (I’m serious about it being low).
8. Chop up half of the can of black olives a little bigger than the jalapenos.  Add to tupperware mixture, put the lid on and shake it up.
9. Wait 5 minutes.
10. Taste the mixture.  The onions should still be slightly crunchy, with a hint of jalapeño, and the spiciness of it should hit you about 20-30 seconds in.  This is going to be very acidic to start, so have a small cup of water sitting by.
11. Add sugar to cut the acidity.  You can’t really fix it easily, so don’t add too much to start - usually a teaspoon of sugar does the trick.  You’ll know when it doesn’t burn right away when you try the mixture.
12. Turn off the stovetop (at this point, the diced tomatoes are probably simmering-ish).  Immediately add the mixture from the tupperware and mix it up.
13. The mixture will most likely be a little thin.  Add tomato paste a tiny little bit at a time until the salsa doesn’t immediately fall off of the spoon when you pick it up.  It will thicken as it cools.
14. Taste the salsa.  Add the tiniest bit of sugar at a time and mix to kill the acidity.
15. Put in something that can be stored in the fridge and put it in the fridge until it cools down.

Cooling down will take a little over an hour and a half, should serve at least 5-8 people.

Ingredients:

• Blueberries
• Fresh Basil
• Balsamic Vinegar
• Cilantro
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Salt & Pepper
• Sugar

1. Put blueberries, balsamic vinegar, fresh basil and cilantro in a food processor and turn it on for a couple seconds.
2. Let it sit for two minutes.
3. Add sugar, salt and pepper to taste.  Sugar is to cut the acidity, not to add sweetness.  Don’t overdo it.  If it tastes a little sweet, add a little more balsamic until it’s between sweet and acidic.
4. Add olive oil and use a hand blender on it until it’s homogenized.

Recently I have found a reason to have 2 links to my Openindiana file server instead of 1, namely iSCSI traffic clogging up the single aggregated link.

Until I get 2 more links on this box, I’m going to need them to be split up.

More after the bump…

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Don’t have enough space on your existing Time Machine backup disk?  Time Capsule need to be expandable or redundant, or just work correctly?

Try this recipe!

(next up: Time Machine with OpenIndiana/FCoE) 

Prereqs:
pkg install SUNWiscsit
pkg install SUNWstfm
svcadm enable -r iscsi/target:default

Creation of zvol:
zfs create -V 500G rspool/TimeMachine

Add to SCSI block disk:
sbdadm create-lu /dev/zvol/rdsk/rspool/TimeMachine

Get GUID for SCSI target mode framework adding, etc.:
sbdadm list-lu

Add to SCSI target mode framework:
stmfadm add-view 600144f044bb4a0000004e204e5e0001

Create iSCSI target:
itadm create-target

Get target info (target name, etc) for initiator, deleting target, etc:
itadm list-target -v

Get iSCSI initator for Mac:
http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=11
- Open dmg, install and reboot.
- Use info from itadm list-target to configure adding the target onto the Mac in System Preferences/globalSAN iSCSI target initiator.
- Add IP to iSCSI target initiator.
- Giggity.

Expand the zvol:
zfs set volsize=750G rspool/TimeMachine 

Delete target:
itadm delete-target -f iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:8f0c7105-0262-e2c5-9c4e-a59edebd42b4

Remove from SCSI target mode framework:
stmfadm remove-view -l 600144f044bb4a0000004e204e5e0001

Remove from SCSI block disk:
sbdadm delete-lu 600144f044bb4a0000004e204e5e0001

Recover space from zvol:
zfs destroy rspool/TimeMachine

Citations:
http://www.tek-blog.com/main/index.php?blog=2&title=comstar_howto&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
And wherever Mike Schenck’s blog went. 

Season 1

• s1e1 - oh look a dichotomy!…and a stupid fucking emo boy…and a wannabe terminator.  Totally not Arnold.
• s1e2 - haha emo boy somehow gets up with cheerleader lizard girl.  David Icke would be so revolted.
• s1e3 - nothing happens.  hintings of a plot connection to x-files. [ed note - that they didn’t fucking USE!]
• s1e4 - why am I still watching?  Oh yah, terminator bro - gonna put money down that you knocked that chick up.
• s1e5 - ooh, a “soldier” joins. OMG Krycek is that emo fuck’s father?!?!?!?!?
• s1e6 - nothing happened.
• s1e7 - nothing happened.
• s1e8 - nothing happened.
• s1e9 - nothing happened.
• s1e10 - nothing happened.
• s1e11 - nothing happened.
• s1e12 - nothing happened.
• s1e13 - Anna rags all over the sky.

Season 2

• s2e1 - nothing happened.
• s2e2 - nothing happened.  Old woman in the basement/caves of an alien ship (where did said basement/caves come from wtf?)
• s2e3 - nothing happened.
• s2e4 - nothing happened.
• s2e5 - nothing happened.
• s2e6 - WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU KILL OFF KRYCEK?!!?!?!?  EVERYONE KNOWS YOU ONLY DO THAT IN YOUR LAST SEASON YOU TWITS!!!!  Wow he was the only one I was watching, even…That felt like when X-files killed the Lone Gunmen.
• s2e7 - nothing happened.
• s2e8 - nothing happened.
• s2e9 - nothing happened.
• s2e10 - EVERYTHING HAPPENED!  W….T….F?!?!?!?!?  That asshat emo kid (whose mother should have shot) finally died, everyone’s found out, covers are blown all around.  Somehow the chick that managed to keep herself alive in a basement for who knows how fucking long was killed, somehow the “best tracker Anna had” was killed by his own daughter.”  Humanity’s stoned to hell on Anna’s bliss, and oh look - humanity’s back to being rebellious from a basement a mile underground that somehow isn’t affected by a telepathic wave.

Holy fuck this show needs to get shitcanned so hard it’s made an example of.