pfSense and the ALIX.2D2
In a recent post I detailed my current saga of server trouble. This time around I was having router trouble causing this website, and others, to fall offline. Not that much fun... When life hands you...
Tag: computers
Servers, You Gotta Love them...
My home network is more complicated then most. I host some web sites, my email servers, and various other ancillary services that the average person doesn't need, or want to worry about. As an IT pers...
Norco DS-1220, Linux, and Green Hard Drives...
I've had my Norco DS-1220 for six or seven months now and have some time to adjust to it and really feel out it's performance. When I first setup the system (transitioning from the Thecus), I had a 2T...
Apple Leopard Server: Two Weeks Later
So, it's been installed and running for two weeks. I think I made it pretty clear in the first review that it's good but not perfect, nothing is and over the past 14 days I've had a chance to really d...
Review: Apple's Leopard Server
As you may have read in my twitter feed, I have installed Mac OS X Leopard Server on a basically stock Mac Mini for my personal use. The Mini hosts email and webmail, calendars, directory services and...
Review: Norco DS-1220
The DS-1220 is great. It was dead easy to setup and has caused me to trouble at all. I installed Fedora 8 in the days leading up to the delivery the the DS-1220 based solely on the fact that I saw som...
Storage Update: Picking up the Pieces
Well, I have placed an order for the Norco DS-1220. I ordered it from Newegg.com as an open box item. It's a bit of a gamble, for couple of reason. The first is because open box from Newegg means some...
Thecus: Dead again....
You would think I'd have learned my lesson already. I've been using my Thecus N5200 for a while now and, like clockwork, every 6 months it just dies. I've blogged about it before here, a lot, here are...
Macbook Battery Life
I've just replaced the battery in my first generation Apple Macbook, well worth the $129 dollars. For such a small battery I was always amazed that I was able to get more then 5 hours of battery life...
Thecus N5200 Failure.... Again
Wow, this is getting old. 36 days in and I've had another drive fail.. only not really. Sure the N5200 thinks it's failed but if I pull the disk out and pop in back in, the array rebuilds and all is w...
The Road to Mac OS X Leopard
AppleInsider has been posting a great series of articles about Apple's upcoming operating system release. They posted one today talking about OS X Leopard Server that is really excellent. They go thro...
OS X Leopard Release!
Apple has announced officially that the new version of Apple's operating system, OS X, will be available on October 26th. If you buy it in a store you can get it at or after 6pm of that day, if you pr...
Followup: Thecus N5200 - Perfect in Failure
Right, so 56 days after the massive failure I have another degraded RAID on my hands. This time I didn't get any emails to tell me about it. Not sure why, I'll assume the email part is my fault to giv...
Review: Jinzora Media Jukebox
I'm always looking for better ways to access my media when I am away from the house. For a while I was using Microsoft's streaming server because I had free access to it through a company I was workin...
Apple's Support is Still Top Notch
This morning, while eating a spot of breakfast, I noticed a crack in my Macbook. I was not completely surprised by this. I had noticed some weakness a few weeks ago during one of my laptop cleanings a...
iPod Touch, I yearn for you!
Ok, in case you live under a rock take a look at the new stuff out friends at Apple have released. Apple has released a device that I have hoped for since they announced the iPhone itself back in Janu...
Review: 5th Generation iMac 20"
Yeah, I bought one. No story for why, no long explanation about it. I bought it because I needed a new desktop and I don't regret it. With the addition of this iMac I am 100% Mac now, my Macbook for p...
Review: Apple's New .Mac Service
As far as I can tell .Mac (Apple's Website describing the complete service) has been overhauled in a very big way and for the better. For a while now I've been aware of the .Mac service which was basi...
Followup: Thecus N5200
Well, I have my first real drive failure on my hands. The array has been running for a few months now (though not without issue), and when I logged into it the other day I noticed I have a drive on th...
Treo as a Modem: The Windows (Part 2)
Ok, Well, I took a minute to try out pairing my Treo to my Windows XP laptop to see what I could do. The short answer is that the process works and I can get online using the phone as a modem. The lon...