Tag Archive for 'windows'

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 [...]

RE: What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can’t do with Windows or on a Mac?

So, Matthew wrote on his blog over at http://matthewhelmke.net/ an interesting article that basically replies to a question done by one of his buddies, I read the 22 points and my reply to them is open your mind and now I’ll analyze each of the statements that Matthew does in order to prove my point [...]

Schmee: Building of a gaming system - Part I

As I’ve mentioned it before…I’m a computer geek that has an interest in gaming and I’m not that much of a hard core gamer. I do generally attend LAN Parties that are organized by my friends and I’m not usually the one with the best computer system there thus have to play most of the [...]

When is a geek not a geek?

I was reading something that a friend of mine posted on his site about people saying that they are geeks and also saying that one OS or the other is better. This is just to show my point of view on this subject. If you are interested in reading his rant, just go over to AudioWiki [...]