Today is the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Whether you use a Mac or not, like the Mac or not, or like Apple at all or not, you’ve got to admit that Apple, on 24th January 1984 at Flint Center in Cupertino, changed the world ...
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Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
If you build your own computer, you’ll know that the enclosure (i.e. casing) is one of the many components that you need to choose. For some people, the enclosure is unimportant, so anything “cheap and works” is ...
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We accumulate lots of digital assets these days. Photos, music and movies, particularly, require massive storage. Storage is cheap, so keeping up with our storage needs is not unaffordable. The difficult bit, however, is scaling ...
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The MacBook Air was launched in 2008 without any wired LAN port built-in. Since then, many new ultrabooks have also left out wired LAN ports. While wireless networking options have become more ubiquitous and faster over the ...
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I recently shared about my interest in building a standalone pfSense box. Well, I’ve been planning for that, the parts have arrived, and I’m currently putting together the box. I’ll share about the build over a ...
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What do you do if you have some extra hard disks on-hand, and need a convenient way to connect them to your computers? One popular solution is to buy a portable hard disk enclosure, which will hold and connect a 2.5″ hard ...
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I’ve been mulling for some time about the option of building a standalone pfSense box. My current pfSense runs as a virtual instance inside an Ubuntu host. This interest was renewed again recently when, unfortunately, my ...
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I’ve heard that several other people also have gotten confused over flying their Extreme Fliers’ Micro Drone 2.0. Either the assembly line has messed up everyone’s wiring, or the horrendous manual has proven to ...
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This is the second generation of Netgear’s R6300 wireless router. Netizens have come up with the R6300v1 and R6300v2 designations to differentiate between the two models because, unfortunately, Netgear did not update the ...
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I was recently struggling with my home fibre broadband connection when, as it turned out, it was something I had figured out before, but I had forgotten all about it. So to save myself the hassle in case I need to go through that ...
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