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11/13/11
02:49:29 pm, by The Dreamer 
, 930 words 
Categories: VoIP, Networking, Cox HSI, AT&T DSL, Broadband, RoadRunner
I guess it was time to replace my WRT54GS routers
For quite some time, I've been running WRT54GS routers....that I had hacked to run Sveasoft Alchemy...eventually reaching 1.0 release and then pretty much doing very little to.Originally, I had gotten a WRT54GS v1.0 that I upgraded, and used with my… more »
Tags: alchemy, amazon prime, at&t, buffalo, cablemodem, cox, dd-wrt, dsl, internet, linksys, qos, roadrunner, router, sveasoft, time warner, whr-hp-gn, wrt54gs
11/10/11
04:11:52 pm, by The Dreamer , 881 words
Categories: General, Wireless/iPhone, VoIP, WiFi, Safety & Security, Cox HSI, AT&T DSL, Broadband, Amazon Kindle
Cox Cable was a no show today....
This afternoon's tale starts on Tuesday, November 8th.At about 9:30am, I get an email from Cox about Wednesday's EAS test for 2pm EST....shouldn't be a problem, won't be home and nothing should be recording then...Then at about 11:30am, I start g… more »
10/27/11
06:56:53 pm, by The Dreamer , 420 words
Categories: Stuff, Software, Computer, DVDs / NetFlix, Boxee
I closed my Stamps.com account
I decided today is the day to close my Stamps.com account. It was triggered by something unrelated....I had pretty much decided that it I was going to close my Stamps.com account around mid-year, but I kept thinking that I might need it still and th… more »
08/31/11
Crashplan Evaluation Update
In the continuing evaluation of CrashPlan, I hit a snag last weekend. The servers were down...and everything stopped... not only could I test the online functionality that morning, local backups between my home computers also stopped. And, many of them… more »
08/23/11
Oops!Backup, Crashplan and RAID5 OCE on Zen
I may have mentioned that I've been trialing Oops!Backup on Zen....the 30-day free trial period ended last week, and a few days before it ended. I went and bought a license. But, not the 20% off that I found an email for after I had gotten the license..… more »
08/12/11
ST31500341AS vs 0F12117
So, thinking about how the sync of the ST1500341AS to 0F12117 was slightly slower than the sync of 0F12117 to 0F12117, I wondered what specs about the new drive would edge out.Specs for the ST31500341AS that I could track down include:Formatted… more »
08/11/11
The storage upgrades on Orac and Zen begin
Because one of the 1TB RAID1 drives was starting to fail...I was looking at options to replace it.I original had a plan to upgraded one of my 1.5TB RAID1's to a pair of 2TB drives....freeing one of the 1.5TB drives to test out the OCE/ORLM feature of… more »
08/07/11
Another Harddrive is biting the dust
Two years ago I bought a pair of 1TB drives from NewEgg.
This being first Sunday and all, mdadm checkarray ran on Orac for several of the arrays (the 3 arrays that share the 5-bay port multiplier enclosures are excluded, and get run individually later… more »
Tags: 1tb, 2 year warranty, 7200.12, amazon prime, checkarray, mdadm, newegg, orac, seagate, st31000528as, ubuntu
07/30/11
10:08:00 pm, by The Dreamer , 2143 words
Categories: Stuff, Hardware, Furnishings, Storage, Printers
Almost didn't make it to the UPS store today
So, when I got up this morning...the plan was to fully wake up and go down to the UPS store hopefully before it gets too hot.But, I started in on various things for random reasons.... I was filling out some paperwork for an appointment I have on Mond… more »
Tags: 8450xi, all-in-one cart, amazon prime, antec, bed frame, brother, dvd+r, hp photosmart, labeler, p-touch, pt-1090, sans digital, sleep number, smartcool, staples, tr5m-bp, ups store
07/24/11
Switch to Widescreen display, and Orac loses a brain.
Well, thought it was going to be another quick project....ended up taking the whole afternoon and then some.
I had gotten some speaker options using Amazon Prime, so that I could swap out the old 17" LCD monitor with built-in speakers for the Vison 21… more »
Tags: altec lansing, amazon prime, box, coby, dvi, graphics, gt440, gumby, intel, kvm, lhaven, mw22e-bad, nvidia, orac, orbit, portable speaker system, usb-powered, vison, xorg
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