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Guest On The Home Server Show Podcast

Written by ray on October 27, 2011

I was a guest on The Home Server Show podcast #158 in what was my first ever podcast. It was a lot of fun talking with the HSS guys. We talked about backups along with my WHS, HP Microservers, pfsense, Untangle and other rigs. The show also included news and a discussion about a WHS file restore speed (or lack thereof) problem. The episode should be posted later today at the Home Server Show and will also be available though iTunes. [Updated with a direct link to HSS podcast 158] Read the rest »

Oops – and Apologies

Written by ray on October 26, 2011

Looks like I had a bit of a website problem today. Should be all better now. Since views were way down apologies to those who had a problem. Combination of late night work, and errant mouse click which enabled a new feature, and lack of testing as a not-logged-in user. Read the rest »

Adjusting Logrotate And Lesson Learned

Written by ray on October 25, 2011

Back when I upgraded my web server I also implemented logrotate to save off the logs each day so they don't grow too large. At the time it seemed like a good idea to just save the logs for a year since I had the disk space. In retrospect that was a mistake. Why? Read the rest »

CrashPlan on Windows Home Server 2011

Written by ray on October 24, 2011

CrashPlan was running a special offer, $42 for a year of unlimited backup for one computer. I decided to give it a try and even though it's not an officially supported operating system it's been talked up pretty well in the WHS community. So here's my installation experience. Read the rest »

Lion Sleeps Through Moving Mice – A Frustrating Enhancement

Written by ray on October 18, 2011

Lion has brought a frustrating new feature that I like. Since first using Lion I've noticed that moving the mouse doesn't reactivate the screen if it's in power saver mode. Since I first encountered this on MacBooks with trackpads I simply tapped the spacebar to wake the machine. Barely a stretch from the trackpad. But it's a but annoying when using Synergy. Here's how I'm working around this enhancement, Read the rest »

Move MobileMe to iCloud

Written by ray on October 14, 2011

I got my Macs updated to OS X 10.7.2 and my iPhone and iPad updated to iOS 5, So it was time to move my MobileMe account to iCloud and see if it lives up to it's promise. It was a less than stellar start with server busy errors preventing the move. Read the rest »

iOS 5 and iCloud – Day 1

Written by ray on October 13, 2011

I've had iOS 5 on my iPhone and iPad 2 for just about a day now. Along with this I've had two Macs on Lion 10.7.2 ready to see what iCloud is all about. I did have a couple issues with the iOS 5 upgrades and I still have an older iPad 1 that hasn't been able to upgrade yet, But here are my first impressions about iOS 5. Read the rest »

Updates All Around

Written by ray on October 12, 2011

It seems like ever computer or computer-like device I have received significant updates in the past couple of days, The 8 security updates for my Windows 7 PCs and VMs were the least time-consuming updates, much to my surprise, Apple released iOS 5 today so the last couple of days have seen related updates from apps to operating systems. In the middle of all this motivated to me finally upgrade my desktop Mac Mini to Lion. Let's not forget all those iPhone/iPad apps that have been updated in the last few days. A great way to kill 8 hours. Read the rest »

pfSense Routes While Untangle Protects

Written by ray on October 9, 2011

I've been using Untangle as my router since June and don't have any complaints, It's worked well as a router an unified threat manager (UTM). I also took the plunge and subscribed to Kapersky AV for enhanced anti-virus scanning. But pfSense had been my first choice as a router, although I had to abandon it since pfSense didn't work with my DSL I stuck with Untangle as both a router and UTM. Now that DSL was gone and there was a new version of pfSense it was time to try again. This time the plan is to run pfSense and Untangle each on their own HP MicroServer. Read the rest »

What’s Was New Is Now Old

Written by ray on October 4, 2011

Yesterday I had a phone that had the latest technology. Today it's now an old piece of crap. Well, not really and not for another couple of weeks. But the iPhone announcement had me thinking of two things. Read the rest »