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...
Tag: geek stuff
“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...
Switching to Mac – First Thoughts…
So it’s now been a few days since I got my new MacBook Air. In fact, I’m writing this post on it now… And I can already tell that it’s g...