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#1 Music Retailer in America: Apple is BACK

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Those that know me know that I am a total Apple zealot. I own an iPhone, an iPod, 3 Macs (a mini, a Power Mac G5 and a MacBook Pro), the iPod Hi-Fi, an original Newton, etc. So it is with great pride that I re-report the Ars Technica article that states that [...]

Fun with firewalls

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

So, I decided that I needed a traffic-shaping firewall for my house to better optimize my use of my bandwidth and to avoid sluggish connections when I’m uploading or downloading. While my linksys router with dd-wrt can do a limited amount of traffic shaping, I was looking for something a little more sophisticated.
I came across [...]

My File Server

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

More and more these days I feel that it is important for everyone who takes technology seriously to have their own file server with RAID technology.   It just makes sense to have a centralized location for all important information with some form of redundancy to protect one’s valuable data.  
My solution to the problem [...]