High-end routers have, by now, decidedly all come fitted with eight legs, erm, antennas. Joining their ranks is ASUS latest high-end router designed for extreme gaming, the ROG Rapture GT-AC5300, which was launched earlier this ...
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Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
If you’ve been following my posts of late, you know I’m building a NAS, and after trying FreeNAS, have developed a preference for NAS4Free. I’m a bit fickle, but as one should really do, I tried both in a VM ...
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It’s Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, and as expected, new features in the next macOS update, High Sierra, were revealed. I used to get excited with macOS updates. A new version would have big, ...
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It’s no surprise now that I’ve been looking at NAS software appliances, and perhaps leaning toward NAS4Free because of its virtualisation features. NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD, and a perennial concern I always have ...
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British Airways is blaming the cause of its massive IT outage last weekend on human error. A contractor at its data centre had inadvertently switched off a power supply, leading to a catastrophic IT failure that stranded some ...
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I’ve been running Btrfs on my Linux PC server for several years, but I haven’t been completely comfortable with the filesystem’s reliability, despite it now being included as options in both CentOS and Ubuntu ...
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The Dell Inspiron 13 5000 series 2-in-1 hybrid convertible notebooks are good all around for school and home. Despite some high-end features, it has an attractively mid-range price-tag. I have the 5368 model for this review, ...
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The latest Speedtest Market Report published today, for Singapore, reveals that we have the second fastest average download speeds for both fixed broadband and mobile networks. The fastest Internet Service Provider (ISP) here in ...
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I’ve been using a password manager for a few years now. This is a tool that helps you store and manage passwords, and which typically integrates with web browsers to automatically supply and remember the ...
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I embarked on a journey to make smart my home last year. I managed to get quite a number of things done, but still there are other sub-projects that I’ve sort of procrastinated over for some time. One of them was to build a ...
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