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Apple’s War on Tech Specs

June 8, 2010

I’ve been meaning to jot down my thoughts on Apple’s continued assault on technical specifications.  There was a time where people really cared about *HZ (Hz, MHz, GHz, whatever) and RAM and cache size and blah blah.  Because computers used to suck.  Now they don’t.  Apple knows that we’re reaching a point of computing where [...]

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Apple vs. Adobe (or Thoughts on Section 3.3.1)

April 30, 2010

This post started life as a voice memo on April 13th, a few days after Apple announced the iPhone 4 OS and unleashed the much bandied about section 3.3.1 (“no 3rd party development platforms”) rule in the new iPhone SDK Agreement.  Since Steve Jobs himself decided to weigh in on this point, I figured it [...]

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iPad Thoughts

April 7, 2010

Yes, I got an iPad. No, I didn’t sleep out in front of an Apple store. No, I didn’t wait in line for hours. No, I didn’t plan on buying the wi-fi version on release weekend, but the videos and early reviews were too hard to ignore for someone like me. Everyone has chimed in [...]

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Backup and Archive SDHC Cards

September 12, 2009

Continuing with my backup and archiving strategy, one of my goals was to get a grip on the growing number of SDHC cards I use with my video cameras; mainly my Canon HF10.  I’ve been ordering about five 4GB cards every couple months.  Besides being small and easy to lose, they are difficult to label and [...]

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Setup Time Machine on FreeNAS

September 5, 2009

Update 11/27/2009 — As HarryD notes in the comments, FreeNAS 0.7 (which was still in RC at time of this writing and did not contain this feature) allows a much easier way to setup Time Machine using AFP.  See his post here.  I’ve not tested this feature in 0.7 and currently using the approach as follows. [...]

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My FreeNAS Project Part 6: Final Build and Overview

August 29, 2009

I’ve completed the NAS build, installed and configured FreeNAS and have a nice 2.6TB storage device connected to my network. Before I start writing about how this NAS fits into my overall strategy, here’s the final cost sheet for the project thus far.  Note that some of the components (APC UPS, Linksys gigabit router) aren’t [...]

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My FreeNAS Project Part 5: The Config

August 22, 2009

So we have our FreeNAS box up and running, connected to the network and accessible via the web-based interface.  One of the first configurations I made was setting a static IP address for my NAS box.  I did this from the console (via option 2), but you can also do this via the web interface [...]

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My FreeNAS Project Part 4: The Install

August 20, 2009

As I mentioned in Part 3, I fried my Compact Flash card as I was making final modifications on the machine build.  That meant I had to reinstall FreeNAS on a new card.  This was an interesting problem to have this early in the project because I learned how to recover from a lost FreeNAS [...]

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My FreeNAS Project Part 3: The Build

August 16, 2009

Did I mention that I’ve not built a computer in six years?  Yeah, well I forgot how bloody frustrating it is when things don’t work exactly as planned.  To recap, I have a donor machine with motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card, DVD drive and power supply—the guts.  My mission was to transplant that stuff into [...]

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My FreeNAS Project Part 2: The Parts

August 15, 2009

To be honest, I’ve not built, technically assembled, a computer in over six years.  I used to build all of my own computers when Windows was my primary operating system and I was developing a lot of Windows applications.  Back then it made sense to build your own because it was more cost-effective.  These days, [...]

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