Tag Archive for 'network'

Objective 30: Completed

Well…it’s been 5 days since I last wrote a post…so I guess that it’s time to come back and update the blog. First let me wish everyone in the US territory a happy 4th of July. Today was a slow work day because of this holiday and this happens with similar holidays that ocurr in the [...]

Zenoss…not as easy to install as you think

So I’m trying to set up my home network to have a lot of gadgetry and network appliances, such as Zenoss, so I’ve been busy trying to get this to work. First came the FreeNAS which went pretty smoothly and I’m quite happy with that application and the features it offers. I recently started to play [...]

Backing up the file server and Zenoss

I started backing up the files on that file server this past Monday evening…five days later…well it’s still backing up but we’ve made progress since last night I started to backup the second hard drive and hopefully it’s done by tomorrow. And why does it take so long to back up? Well when I started the [...]

Working on the network…

Well I came online this morning and the first thing I saw was that DD-WRT had released a new firmware version and I just had to upgrade to that version. I read a couple of documents and forum posts about the subject so I made sure that I wouldn’t be caught in a scenario where I [...]

MythTV

I’ve been hearing about this for quite some time now, I think that I first heard of it in one of my favorite podcasts, I haven’t configured one mostly because I would like to build a small box for this. Also the machine would be placed in the WLAN, yes it’s not as fast and [...]

In need of hardware

Well, my trip to Taiwan has to be rescheduled to one month later, this because of another business trip to Colorado. I suddenly need more hardware, specially one machine that can run Windows 2003 server and I also need to create some sort of backup script to backup the data in my two laptops to [...]