This site has been silent for a couple of weeks so I figured I’d end the year with a Trail Log. I’ve been considering an expansion of the OS Quest data center and finally pulled the trigger with Newegg’s Year End Sale and placed an order on Saturday. I’ll wait for the stuff to arrive before I get into the details since it should be fodder for a few posts. Included are parts for two system builds and some network upgrades. Between the holiday and the fact that I like [...] Read the rest »
My Favorite Tech: Year End Review & Gift Shopping List
This is going to be that obligatory shopping list post and obligatory year-end view post combined into one. But let’s face it, it’s really a blatant attempt to make some money since most of the links are affiliate links and clicking on them and buying something will send a little money my way to help defray the cost of the quest. Along those lines the picture links to Egghead where I buy most of my hardware and the text links head to Amazon.com. Computer Hardware As I previously mentioned, the [...] Read the rest »
Mac Mozy Changes
I recently received the following e-mail from Mozy concerning a change to their Mac product coming on Wednesday. Luckily it doesn’t affect me since I don’t use the discontinued features. This wasn’t totally unexpected as it brings it in line with the capabilities of the Windows version. MozyHome Customer, We recently announced the addition of MozyPro for Mac to the Mozy family. MozyPro for Mac builds upon MozyHome for Mac and offers additional business features, including Admin Console management, 24/7 phone support, and official support for network drives and Mac [...] Read the rest »
Pardon the Interruption, But…
This has become my new favorite book: Jim Shaughnessy is the quintessential railroad photographer of the 50’s and 60’s although his work extends from the 40’s to the 80’s. The first thirty pages or so talks about Shaughnessy and how he worked while the remaining pages contain some great black and white photographs. The pictures are mostly from New England in the 50’s and 60’s a cover the transition from steam to diesel. They’re not just pictures of trains but include stations, tunnels, people and more. The second photo in [...] Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress Transfer Completed
The transfer of my AOL My eAddress domain was completed and I’ve updated the original post. If you’re viewing this in a feed reader or otherwise missed the update, and have an interest, you can head over there for the complete story. Read the rest »
Seagate 1.5 TB Windows Home Server Problems
As I mentioned previously, I added a Seagate 1.5 TB drive to my Windows Home Server just under two months ago. Things were fine until this week when my WHS began acting up. Problems were sporadic, it would either just stop communicating for a couple of minutes or in one case, until rebooted. Disk access was also excruciatingly slow at times. There were some disk time-outs logged in the event log but they didn’t specify the physical disk affected. There was even one case of apparent file corruption. I say [...] Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress Changes
I took a look at AOL’s My eAddress offering over two years ago. While I signed up for the free service I never really used it. The biggest hindrance for me was that AOL controlled the domain. So if AOL decided to discontinue the service there was no guarantee that I would keep the domain. I could be forced into changing my email addresses. While AOL isn’t discontinuing My eAddress they are restructuring it to remove that obstacle. Now they only offer a “Bring your own domain” option where you [...] Read the rest »
