I noticed a pretty nifty feature of the Airport Utility app on my iOS 5.0.1 based iPad. When I have multiple Apple branded Airport devices wired to the same network, they appear side by side on the Airport Utility’s topology map: When I have one Airport device daisy chained off another, both setting up private [...]
Tagged Airport Utiity, iOS, ipad, networksGuess it’s a good time to buy some grass seed and over seed the bare spots in the yard. Also a good time to clean gutters and make sure drain tile is connected to down spouts and is clear of debris.
The HAI Web Link II software works with both HAI OmniPro and OnQ HMS home automation controllers that are version 1.8 and newer firmware. It might work with AEGIS systems too – but I know of no one with that to test on. I may hack it enough to work on Linux too, given enough [...]
Tagged HAI OmniPro, Home Automation, Home Security, OnQ HMS, Web-Link IISo the whole time we had no power and were exiled to a place with power and internet access and hot running water, we kept wondering… Is the power back on at our house yet? That question could only be answered this time by a drive out to our house to see in person. So [...]
This morning I went by the house to check on things and feed the cats and found that the power was back on at the house; and that by some miracle I do not fully understand most of our treasured marine aquarium livestock appears to have survived! We also still have some propane though the [...]
Tagged House, Marine Aquariums, snow, TrafficThe last few days my internet speeds for actual usage seem like 1989 with a 2400bps MODEM over noisy dialup lines… I am measuring 2Kbps most of the time using scp and web sites are essentially unusable. The really strange thing is that all the speed test websites, once they’ve loaded the speed test (which [...]
Tagged broadband, internet speedsThis little home server makes my old nOrhtec MIcroServer GP look huge in comparison… Guru Plug Server Plus, 512MB memory, 512MB flash storage, two Gigabit ethernet ports… I could run caching DNS, MediaWiki, Router/Firewall and openVPN services on this little guy and only burn 5W of power… Amazing. The old MicroServer GP has only 256MB [...]
Tagged low power computing, microserver, plug computingI think that the new iPods look great, but that the best news out of Apple today was the price reduction on the classic AppleTV devices… only $149 while supplies last… Classic AppleTV (160GB) The new AppleTV also looks pretty cool, and at $99 it will likely be a market success, but it does not [...]
Tagged Apple, AppleTV, media centerA lot of us have Linksys home routers. They are cheap, effective, and easy to use. I’ve have a BEFSR81 8 port fast ethernet broadband router/firewall for many years… it recently started locking up when anyone in the house shops Amazon.com using Firefox (started in early May we think). Frequently the router will lock up [...]
Tagged home networking, Linksys BEFSR81, routerThis weekend my partner and I decided to finally execute a many year plan to set up a home theater in our basement. We shopped around a little and scored an LCD television, receiver, disc player, and speakers from a local Best Buy. I was sad to see that the decade old practice of price [...]
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