This is also avaiable in PDF format. You can also download the data used for analysis. Abstract Digital cameras have spread at an amazing rate. There are almost no film cameras being developed anymore, having been relegated to antique status. In fact, at the most recent …
Keep reading · 16 minutes: Digital Photography Storage ExplosionA couple of years ago when Tammy and I visited Disneyworld I was struck by the pervasive use of digital cameras and digital video equipment. I started to wonder, as I watched everyone around me merrily clicking away megabytes of storage, how much data is all this? This train of …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Terabytes of DisneyworldA few months ago I bought the Roku M1000 MP3 player for Mazie’s room. I really liked it, even wrote on here about how great it was. Well, I liked it so much I decided to buy two more. Not the M1000, but the cheaper M500. Roku was running a sale, I think moving them out to make …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Music Everywhere!I spent a few hours today playing around with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Address Protocol). Why? Well, it frustrates me that my webmail application and Thunderbird don’t share address books. To add insult to injury, if Tammy has an email address of someone I can’t just find it. …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: LDAP Coming SoonI spent a bit of time this weekend on my home network. I had a “security incident” about 10 days ago that I had to both clean-up and prevent from happening again. No damage of any significance was done. I had setout on segmenting my network and replacing my ZyWall with a …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Weekend GeekfestI just spent the last four hours trying to get my new network topology in place. The result of all that time is zilch. I installed pfSense 0.79.4 on the firewall box with four ethernet ports. I tried to setup a WAN, LAN, DMZ and WIRELESS networks but I couldn’t get anything …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Four Hours of FrustrationI just discovered del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. What’s that you say? Essentially a way for you to manage your bookmarks across any number of computers using a tagging metaphor like Flickr. And, even better, you can see what other people like that you …
Keep reading · 1 minute: del.icio.usI’ve modified and specialized this website so much it’s rather ridiculous. I use .Text for the site, and it’s open source which is fun since you can change things, which I’ve done extensively. Now however I seem to have introduced a bug that keeps me from editing any post that is …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Now I've Made .Text UnhappyI’ve been having fun with what I expect will be my last weekend of hardcore geeking with my gear at home for a while. Once Baby Thingelstad arrives I’ll have more important things to do! This weekend I jammed on two tools. First is Snort, which I have setup in a network intrusion …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Hardcore Geeking!I’ve been busy (obsessed) with getting SNMP monitoring of my home network working with MRTG for the last couple of weeks. It’s been much harder than I would have expected, but in the end I sure know a lot more about SNMP than I did before. This gives me a lot of information on my …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Fun with MRTG and SNMP