I’ve spent years frustrated with IR control in my smart home. Every solution was either a clunky, cobbled-together mess of components, or some cloud-dependent IR blaster that phones home to servers in who-knows-where. So I…
I finally got my shipment of Raspberry Pis today and I am stoked! I didn’t pay the crazy prices on eBay and so I now have a $36 computer. I’ve allocated both of my PIs…
The Breaking Point: Slow Transfer Speeds So after a few months of using FreeNAS I’ve decided I can’t live with the insanely slow transfer speeds. Unfortunately FreeNAS is built on FreeBSD and has a terrible…
With the recent addtion of my FreeNAS box and my obsession with being able to listen to my music at work or anywhere for that matter, I decided to purchase a CSCO PIX 501 for…
Ok, so I started sourcing the parts for my new build and realized I had a few more decisions to make before I pulled the trigger on this build. I had already roughly calculated how…
I’ve decided it was time to get back to the roots of my geek and setup my own FreeNAS system for the house. I’ve been using Mozy at home and it backs up my primary…