Home Tech Talk, Part 2
So picking up where I left off last night, I think these are going to be my next points of focus around the house… Run Cat6 to the Living Room and Bedroom...
Tag: geek stuff
Envisioning My Automated Home…
So I spent some time reviewing my home server/network setup as it stands so far and it got me thinking about what might be the next steps on down the road. I...
“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass…”
I don’t know what it is about this movie because it’s really just awful, but there’s something about its awfulness that makes it ideal for tur...
movies thoughts … Avengers: Age of Ultron
Went and saw this a week ago because apparently that’s what you do when someone offers to play sitter for a night! And although I’d argue that it wa...
Memory Lane, not so much paved with gold…
So the last time that I was back home in Michigan, I set aside another pile of stuff for my Dad to shuttle down with him during his annual vacation to a warmer ...
Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte
I’ve had this episode of Foundation in which Kevin Rose interviews Leo Laporte earmarked for a while now, but I finally found some time this week to liste...
How does one backup a media server’s worth of data???
After adding a 4th hard drive to my home server today, bringing the total storage space up to an unexpected 20 TB, I’ve been thinking a lot about backups ...
So close! Then oops…
I thought I’d take a quick break right now to do what should’ve been a simple maintenance on my new media server. My latest hard drive added was sti...
A Different Kind of Cloud
I just saw this commercial and now I’m wondering – did we change the definition of what The Cloud really is, or have I just not known what it was al...
Playing with Plex
Since I left off on the subject back around Thanksgiving, I’ve actually made a lot of progress in my little Plex project… I still have my little tes...