tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187643422011-12-14T20:06:19.519-07:00Tech stuff.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-58816192750678994152010-05-01T09:16:00.001-07:002010-05-01T09:17:44.801-07:00

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Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-76679263416475692742009-04-06T16:12:00.003-07:002009-04-06T16:41:43.011-07:00

I have been a lucky man to have my wife give up her old Motorola e815. This phone rocks for a number of reasons. While it's no smart phone, it's does enough for my purposes that because I didn't pay for it, it's smart to me. It's one of the few free-with-contract phones with EVDO I have ever seen, so using it as modem is extremely bearable. But even using the old-school Openwave browser on it

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-23060015506857850242007-11-29T18:59:00.000-07:002007-11-29T18:59:10.336-07:00

Ack, it's been while since I've posted, I know, but what luck, i have something relevant to actually report.After initially setting up my wife's blog, tucsonquerido.blogspot.com to use a custom GoDaddy domain back in June, I found what everyone had seemed to find out; it's not perfect. The details are at The Real Blogger Status - Beta: Google Custom Domain - Case Study # I tried Google's way

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-2805501705690686622007-06-24T17:12:00.000-07:002007-06-24T18:24:05.424-07:00

Since we've started using our new home NAS to consolidate and backup our media, I've also undertaken the task to convert my fiance's previous WMA media collection she had accumulated since we started dating. Some of our media devices already supported WMA, such as our Blaupunkt car stereo, and Panasonic DVD player, but the newest, an Ipod 5th gen, obviously wouldn't (well not out of the box at

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1165693700444295592006-12-09T12:18:00.000-07:002007-03-05T11:29:32.225-07:00

A few months ago, as I was anticipating my next move for my home NAS, i came across a slashdot poster's link to Openfiler . While I was originally going to use FreeNAS, i'm glad I saved that bookmark. The FreeNAS installer would not boot on my machine, and if it wasn't for Openfiler, I really wouldn't have a free web-based alternative that I could try turn-key.Openfiler seems to have come a long

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1161725117821220062006-10-24T14:24:00.000-07:002006-10-31T17:32:23.606-07:00

After a long debate on buying the Thecus 5200, an impressively built NAS bassed around a Celeron M, I decided I would instead use it as inspiration to build my own. Although it's plug and play, has gigabit ethernet performance, supports 5 discs and Raid 6, features high on my list, it is also a tad more expensive than what I believed I could spec out on my own. Plus, I wanted the experience of

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1158970223588041712006-09-22T16:55:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:17:25.870-07:00

After multiple attempts to install Fedora Core 3 on the thinclient, including upgrading from a 1gb card(Transcend) to a 2gb card (riData), frying a cdrom trying to use the onboard molex, and an install bug that would send me in a loop if I was just a bit over the space limit, I finally got it installed(Yay!).Then I found that there really is no margin to the processor requirements for skype and

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1158034560423992582006-09-11T20:52:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:17:43.330-07:00

It's been a while since I posted but wanted to write a bit about most recent forray into Internet Telephony. I bought a usb to rj11 adapter a few months ago to try fax or data over Skype with my Dish Network receiver. I figured it would be a fun experiment, and there seems to be so much debate about whether or not data over voip is possible. Some Google searches say so using VOIP providers, but

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1138158898832431352006-04-02T18:06:00.000-07:002006-10-24T13:57:57.586-07:00

After finally locating a ps/2 keyboard in the dumpster (no, i wasn't specifically looking there, my neighbors were moving), I was able to try out my Netvista 8364. At first, the standard post screens looked quite normal: keyboard. check. Mouse. check. DHCP. check. But I soon got lost in what I can only describe as IBM menu hell. My only real aim was to try to boot from an external device, such

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1138159493216723612006-01-24T20:15:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:18:06.786-07:00

Although I'm a big fan of various Linux distros, my Netvista 8364 NUS has sent me searching for the right one. Must work on older hardware, have some sort of desktop, and be able to boot from various media. I found it in Damn Small Linux, which has a number of extensions that allow you to modify what elsewise would be a standard LiveCD distrobution. Since I have no ps/2 input devices for the

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1136000404983813812005-12-30T20:32:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:18:44.676-07:00

Well, the raid 5 will have to wait. Just too much money to spend before taking our trip to South America. That's not to say I haven't been keeping my geek interests piqued. I recently purchased an IBM Netvista 2800 NUS, or 8364, on eBay. Instead of the POS station idea i had for the kitchen, I'm going to try this first. I dont' know much about these things, but they sound fun. Pentium 266mhz,

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1132621738649277122005-11-21T18:07:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:19:08.440-07:00

I've been trying unsuccessfully to bid on several used POS PC on eBay. Eva's passion for trying out new recipes printed off from the internet inspired me. Why not bring the internet to the kitchen, and along with it, access to email and our video and music collection? Unnecessary? Most assuredly, especially considering the size of our kitchen. But I have a rather expensive dream (both in terms of

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1131484220232573762005-11-08T13:49:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:16:56.953-07:00

Last week I read a piece on slashdot about amazon's Mechanical Turk. Since humans still can do even some trivial tasks, like photo recognition, better than computers, they pay you to do said trivial tasks. Of course it was slashdotted within minutes, so I've only recently been able to try it myself.The easiest way to get started is to find a group of hits, typically from large city, and try to

Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18764342.post-1131464194560642632005-11-08T08:32:00.000-07:002006-10-24T15:16:36.426-07:00

Bah! I revived my blog (last used in 2001. Hey, that's pre-Blogosphere!). I have a couple of projects I want to put out on the web, possibly to get some feedback and insight, er help. Primarily, a +1TB fileserver built on consumer components. Many of the details have already been ironed out, but having never put together something in this category, any help I could get would be welcome.

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