by Dean | Feb 24, 2017 | Apple, Common Sense, Hacking, HyperV, IT, OS X
Recently I picked up a Mac Book Air. It is a nice device, fast processor, lots of memory and fast hard drives. I am not to keen on using OS X so I decided to install Windows onto it. So I installed windows, loaded the drivers, installed all my applications and then...
by Dean | Feb 17, 2017 | General IT, IT, Networking, Review
It has been a while since my last post. I know this but what better way to get back into it then to review some hardware that I have recently had to review. The gear is Uniquiti’s UniFi Access point and switch combo. Website: https://www.ubnt.com/products/#unifi...
by Dean | Sep 5, 2016 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, Hacking, Misc, Watching
I have recently pick up a BlackVue dash cam. Overall I am extremely happy with the device, it does just as it should do and faithfully records the view from my windshield day and night, driving or parked. The quality of the video is great and it has some great Wi-Fi...
by Dean | Jul 16, 2016 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, monitoring, Tutorial
It has been a while since I have posted anything. So I thought I would go through the setup of my Solar monitoring. When I got my solar system I noticed that the Inverter had a RS232 connector on it. While it was being installed I was talking with the installers about...
by Dean | Apr 17, 2016 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, PHP
So in my last post I setup and configured EHCP onto a Raspberry Pi. I thought this would be a good and easy way to run a web server from home. The installation was fairly straight forward and it all seemed like it was good except I remembered that I work in IT and I...
