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Speaking at IASA Atlanta: May 9th

This should be fun a night, I will kick off with a light hearted look at Cruise Control – it is amazing how many projects still do not use Continuous Integration. My plan is take demos and a few slides … Continue reading

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LinkedIn’s second wind

Like many busy people I used to politely decline requests to join LinkedIn – a social networking website for professionals. A few weeks ago I finally gave it a try and on uploading my Gmail contacts a whopping 70+ people I … Continue reading

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SecurAble – is your DEP working

Steve Gibson of GRC fame spits out another useful tool: It simply displays if some newer hardware features are available on your PC. The screen-shot is verification that the 64bit PC I built almost three years does support DEP. DEP: Prevents … Continue reading

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Linux web servers are case senstive

When re-hosting this blog I decided to go with an engine that published plain-jane html. The main reasons are: . Simplicity of hosting . Speed of pages to appear (i.e. no ASP.Net engine to ‘warm up’) . Should be simple … Continue reading

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Bye File Server, hello NAS

NAS, or Network Attached Storage is finally affordable to use at home. For a few weeks I have been running two $70 Coolmax CN-550 devices: This is an external USB drive with an RJ-45 ethernet port. My devices both have 320GB … Continue reading

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Cat-5 Wiring: Order matters – Duh!

This may be common knowledge to everyone but me. In our new house I made two long cat-5 cables to span from a switch to the 2nd xmbc xbox and a PC in a remote bedroom. Well neither (longish) cable would … Continue reading

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