Use your DNS-323 as a media server?  Want to stream all your videos to your TV?  Cheaply?

Enter xbox media centre.  The little piece of software I used to love on my old black brick original xbox (modded, of course).  But not just for xbox anymore!  Cheap nettops are here, paving the way for super affordable […]

As you guys might have noticed, both myself and my blog updates have been scarce.  Life has gotten busy with other things and other little  projects.  I appreciate all the comments that have followed the articles and I have learned a lot from the community this little project blog has fostered.  Thank you!  I had […]

The recent Seagate hard drive debacle combined with the timely discussions on Time Machine restores got me thinking.
When I architect enterprise systems for my clients, I’m always talking about the same things:  performance, capacity, availability and security.  These concepts sound simple enough up front, but when we get down to it, there’s always more to […]

Dr. Michael Geist writes that the Ontario Legislature just passed Bill-85.  HUH?  How come this is so media-silent?
Didn’t anyone stop to take clues from the US about the broadly-publicized RFID password vulnerabilities?  As a security guy, I’m a little shocked.  And a lot appalled.