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Every so often, one of my buddies will tell me about some “killer” app that I just have to try. Sometimes they’re right – the app truly is killer and I’m glad they had me try it. Other times I try it and simply feel “meh” about it.

A few weeks ago I was visiting a friend who had been trying to convince me to jailbreak my iPhone for quite a while. I had not done so because I really didn’t feel compelled to. My phone could do everything I wanted it to do, and did so pretty damn well.
While visiting my friend, [...]

Yesterday the world was introduced to the wonderfulness that is the iPhone 3.0 software update. I know around my office nearly every geek in sight was hunched in front of his or her workstation furiously foaming at the mouth waiting for the update to finish downloading and install.
The update provides some wonderful new features (searching, [...]

I’ve written many times here about the alarm system I’ve installed in my house.  I’m a geek, and wasn’t satisfied with an ordinary alarm system from companies like ADT, Sonitrol, Brinks, etc.   I wanted something with more interactivity, expandability, and ability to fit into the smart home I’ve been building out.

So, on my work laptop I am using PGP to perform whole disk encryption.  It’s a Macbook Pro,  and being a mobile machine we needed to encrypt it’s drive.
For some reason my Macbook Pro locked up during the encryption process (I can say positively that it’s an unrelated issue – the encryption itself is not [...]

I wrote earlier about one of my XServes that had problems with a kernel panic on boot. While I still have NO idea what the underlying cause happens to be, it seems to have corrected itself.
Earlier today, on a hunch, I went and booted the server. I figured the worst that would happen is another [...]

It’s more advanced than most because I enjoy playing with technology and making it work for me. … Just like sometimes an XBox 360 will give the red-ring of death, my servers aren’t always healthy.

I’ve had the same home directory for a long time, migrating it and it’s data from one machine to another for years.  In the process I’ve accumulated a lot of cruft that ballooned my home directory to a whopping 73.5GB of disk space.  This was becoming a pain to manage, so I decided to freshen [...]

A long while back I acquired an Apple XServe for use in my home network.  It was used, and definitely not new (sadly, not an Intel XServe), but still quite the powerful (and loud) machine!  At the behest of my buddy I set it up as my gateway, providing VPN termination, firewall,DNS, nat, dhcp and [...]

It’s no surprise to many that my home network is more advanced than most.  I’m a geek, it’s what we do.  Over the past few weeks I’ve slowly been building out my home network – from it’s initial incarnation as a typical broadband home network with an airport extreme base station serving as my router [...]