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If anyone has happened to stumble upon this blog you will have noted that I really like Synology NAS products. A couple of years ago I purchased a DS211j (since superseded by the DS212j) and I have been quite satisfied. Since they have … Continue reading →

It has been about a month since I upgraded my Asus Transformer TF300 Android tablet from Jelly Bean 4.1 to 4.2.1. The upgrade was relatively painless although it is quite a large download. The main differences are that you can change … Continue reading →

I just upgraded by Synology DS-211j NAS last night to the latest version of the DSM firmware – version 4.2. The DNS servers – which is pretty decent – is now out of beta. Thankfully! The old, third-party version I … Continue reading →

I just downloaded and installed the over-the-air Jelly Bean 4.2 upgrade for my TF300. I didn’t have much time to test it out given that I finished up the installation just prior to going to work. I didn’t get a … Continue reading →

Google was going to put up one its famous Google Doodles featuring the Asteroid 2012 DA14 which was passing Earth on February 15, 2013 at 19:25 UTC. But the other meteorite event in Russia caused them to drop the doodle because … Continue reading →

I was in the process of securely wiping some disks on a Linux box when I did a df and got the following output: demo@x225:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 130G 2.7G 120G 3% / … Continue reading →

Found this online today as I was setting up a new Ubuntu 12.10 server – a quick way to set up the authorized_keys to allow passwordless ssh login. After you have created public and private keys on your workstation simply … Continue reading →

I was looking a laptops for a friend and he didn’t want the bilingual keyboards found that seem to be everywhere in Canada’s big-box stores. Personally, I can’t stand them either – the half-size left shift key that always has me … Continue reading →

From Ars Technica: Kerosene lamps face gravity-powered usurper A London design consultancy has developed a cheap, clean, and safer alternative to the kerosene lamp. Kerosene burning lamps are thought to be used by over a billion people in developing nations, … Continue reading →

Arrggg…. You would think that there would be an elegant solution for a controlled UPS-based shutdown of ESXi but, unless you have invested in a network-based UPS, this is not the case! While ESXi 5.1 can access the UPS from … Continue reading →