I’ve been running the same “SOHO” firewall at home since 2001. My trusty Netgear FVS318. A pretty solid unit and hasn’t ever let me down, but old enough not to be upgradeable. This week I decided to have a look around see what else is out there to use. See, … Continue reading
About a year ago I wrote about my new method of documenting scheduled jobs with Google Calendar. Since that article I’ve been diligently updating my calendars as jobs have been added, deleted or changed. Earlier today I was modifying the schedule of a job when I realized my idea had … Continue reading
Tip: vmnetcfg is a really handy tool to tweak VMware network configs. Just don’t forget to run it as admin if on Vista or Win 7 (I always do…).
Here is a slick little tip I learned from my buddy Dan over at machineLOGIC today. I just had to share… I’ve been using the built-in Microsoft VPN client for years – through 5 or 6 iterations of Windows in fact. Dead simple to set up, easy to use and … Continue reading
One of the older home laptops finally died yesterday. Not totally unexpected, she’d been ailing for a while but she finally had to be put down. * moment of silence, please * The hard drive in that laptop was a 7200 RPM drive so I decided that it would be … Continue reading
