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Most users don’t think too much when they need a network switch for their home network. In fact, most of them just make do with the LAN ports on their broadband router. I needed something more complicated, a managed network ...
Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
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A brief outage happened on my website this afternoon. While applying some package updates that didn’t happen automatically on the Linux server hosting the WordPress blog, the upgrade broke, and then Apache httpd server ...
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After installing FreeNAS recently, I suddenly recalled the horrors from my experience with PC memory errors. Once upon a time, I had been very perplexed by frequent crashes of my Linux server until it finally dawned on me to test ...
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The Republic of Gamers, or ROG, is a brand created by ASUS in 2006 to cater to PC gamers. The brand has an impressive catalog of products, but for the first time ever, ASUS has launched a ROG branded router, the ROG Rapture ...
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Microsoft confirmed last week that a portion of Windows 10 source code had leaked online, according to a report from The Verge. This is part of a massive leak of some 32 TB of data that includes private internal builds and other ...
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While researching parts for building a new NAS box recently, I was looking at processor choices and came across the Intel Pentium G4560 processor. This is a 7th generation “Kaby Lake” desktop processor, and while ...
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I am a strong proponent for buying a good power supply unit (PSU). Even if it may cost more capital outlay initially, you will save money from utility bills in the long run, especially when you are running a 24×7 sort of ...
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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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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, ...