A Frustrating Journey
I spent some time this weekend playing around with my Synology 1511+ NAS and various file functions. I decided to start collecting some of the less obvious (at least to me) things I learned. My setup is a Synology DS1511+ with two DX510 expansion units. Read the rest »
Rebooting my HP MicroServer after applying the April Windows Home Server 2011 was the start of the problems.Obviously a problem with Microsoft's patches, right? By the time I was done the software wa untouched and I had swapped the MicroServer. Read the rest »
It's been two months since the last Trail Log since things have been slow, but their picking up. Topics include two steps closer to being iTunes free along with some minor software upgrades.And then there was a new iPad. Read the rest »
It’s world backup day. I was surprised to find it’s not a creation of a greeting card company or some other commercial entity. Even so, businesses have latched on with promotions on backup related products. According to CNet World Backup Day was created by: …Ismail Jadun, a biology student from Youngstown State in Ohio who saw the need for it after reading comments on the lack of backup awareness on social news site Reddit. There are several offers and links to backup how to articles on their site. But the [...] Read the rest »
I looked at Instacast a couple days ago and while it was good enough to know I’d no longer need iTunes for Podcasts, but there were enough hiccups to make me look at an alternate, so I picked Downcast. It’s $2 and is universal for both iPhone and iPad. Here's my impression after 24 hours. Read the rest »