February 10th, 2008 Digg This
I’ve long been looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) solution at home for some time now, but they were either too robust and expensive (when using a professional NAS system/server) or not extendable enough (when using a network attachable hard disk).
Lately however, the prices of small NAS systems have come down, so it was time to buy one and it has become the Linksys NAS200.
At the moment only filled with 1 500GB SATA disk.
Some features
- Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1
- Music and video streaming
- 2 external USB ports for hard disks or flash drives (FAT, FAT32 and NTFS support)
- 1-button backup
- Build-in HTTP, FTP, DDNS and UPnP AV media servers
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Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets
February 7th, 2008 Digg This
A few days ago, I posted about what technology will no longer be science-fiction in the neat future. One of the items was holodeck technology that would be available by 2016.
Some news today, supports this estimation.
[From: Holodeck-like 3D movies on the horizon?]
[From: Holographic displays step closer (via Slashdot)]
Filed under: The Future
February 7th, 2008 Digg This
When first reading that there were 3 submarine cables cut, I thought, ok, that’s bad luck. But now that there are reports of even 5 cables cut over a HUGE area, hmmm sounds strange.
From Slashdot, I found this article about Ships that can drag anchors from Egypt to Malaysia 
with a follow-up containing some possible explanations.
Filed under: Blurbs
February 6th, 2008 Digg This
This is probably one of the best (also because it is short) explaining articles about what Project Management really entails.
Filed under: Getting Things Done
February 6th, 2008 Digg This
To anticipate the IP address shortage in 2011, the ICANN has started updating the root servers with IPv6 records. One small step for ICANN… one giant leap for the internet.
[From: BBC News]
[From: Builder.au]
Filed under: Web
February 4th, 2008 Digg This
Sometimes something as simple as playing music at work isn’t as simple as it sounds.
There are a few ways to do this, but each of them have their own problems:
- MP3 player
- Playing from a computer
- Internet radio
- Easylistener
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Filed under: Blurbs
February 4th, 2008 Digg This
A nice little article about five Sci-Fi Scenarios that will come true and when.
Predictions:
- Biometric Security (expected by 2010)
- Space Tourism (expected by 2013)
- Holodeck (expected by 2016)
- Self-Aware computers (expected by 2019)
- Domestic Robots (expected by 2020)
Filed under: The Future
February 2nd, 2008 Digg This
It’s that time of year again… I went hardware shopping.
Actually, I went twice. First a PC upgrade a month ago, which I didn’t post about (and not going to except for the list, due to a lack of time and because I forgot to take photos before installing everything) and secondly a week ago.
Here are the lists:
List 1
- Antec Sonata III 500W case (it’s a good power supply and I could use the extra case;) )
- ASUS P5K-E mainboard
- ASUS 8600GT Silent 256MB
- Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz
- 4 GB DDR2 RAM
- Western Digital 3.5″ 320GB SATAII hard disk
List 2
- Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer
- Icy Box 2.5″ portable hard disk case
- Seagate 2.5″ 120GB 7200rpm SATA hard disk
- Logitech Wave keyboard
- Linksys NAS200 Network Attached Storage
- Western Digital 3.5″ 500GB SATAII hard disk
- Belkin KVM (monitor + 2 USB)
- Samsung Dual Layer DVD-RW SATA
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Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets
January 22nd, 2008 Digg This
A few days ago, I spend almost a day figuring out what went wrong with an application I was writing. Apparently a SerializationExeption can occur when executing ASP.NET code in the ASP.NET Development Server (Cassini).
Exception:
Type is not resolved for member ‘Classname,Assembly, Version=1.1.0.31, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’.
Exception details:
System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member …
When executing the same website in IIS, everything runs fine.
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Filed under: .NET
January 17th, 2008 Digg This
A short, nice and bit of a sarcastic (which makes it nice) overview of the changes from Windows 95 up to Windows Vista.
[From: Shipping Seven]
Filed under: Windows
