Oh how I love CISCO…
With the recent addtion of my FreeNAS box and my obsession with being able to listen to my music at work or anywhere for that matter, I decided to purchase a CSCO PIX 501 for my home network. The idea...
View ArticleMy FreeNAS Build (Part 3 of 3)
So after a few months of using FreeNAS I've decided I can't live with the insanely slow transfer speeds. Unfortunately FreeNAS is built on FreeBSD and has a terrible port of SAMBA service. It's so slow...
View ArticleArduino Clone Powered RGB Keyboard Light
I recently remodeled my office as I'll be working from home full-time starting in March, it's amazing what you can do with $1k dollars at Ikea! Anyhow, love my office setup, especially my desk but I...
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I finally got my shipment of Raspberry Pis today and I am stoked! I didn't pay the crazy prices on eBay and so I now have a $36 computer. I've allocated both of my PIs as XBMC boxes to power my...
View ArticleDynamic DNS Updates For Multiple Hosts On A Synology
Need to update multiple DYNDNS.org hosts on your Synology? Frustratingly you can't update multiple hosts with the GUI on a Synology. Once you select DYNDNS.org as your provider you'll see there is only...
View Articleblink(1) mk2 for the win…
Last week I finally received my two new shiny blink(1) mk2 USB RGB "things"; these were rewards for helping fund the KickStarter project from ThingM. The mk2 is the second generation and even cooler...
View ArticleOverlapping Subnets is never a good thing…
Recently I had an issue that I couldn't find a solution for using the power of Google. My company has a wonderful tool from BMC called ADDM. It's an enterprise tool that allows you to scan your network...
View ArticleDSC Alarm + Envisalink3 + DSCServer + SONOS = Alarm Announcements!
Long title and a large degree of entropy? Nah! This is a system that was built in layers but the components are largely used and fairly niche in their use. I've just decided that I'd use them to...
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