Google and voice...and video....and IM

There's been a lot of noise lately about AT&T and Apple and Google not playing nice together.  The latest is AT&T carrying on about Google Voice blocking rural numbers because their costs are so much higher.  Ok, that's kind of crappy, but…

Perfection in 4U

Ever since I bought into Unraid and started adding hard drives I've been thinking about what the perfect case would be.  I'm using the NORCO RPC-450 4U Rackmount Server Case which has the benefit of being pretty inexpensive but only holding 10 drives without adding some…

Blue Iris for video security

Zoneminder, argh.  I'm not sure how much time I've put into getting Zoneminder to work but it's a lot.  There's just something about it that confounds me, whether it's because of the underlying OS or hardware problems...Zoneminder seems to…

Cheap remote sniffer

Looking for a cheap and reliable way of doing packet capture remotely.  I found this reference to using PFSense and it looks like a pretty slick idea.  I was quite happy with PFSense when I was using it as a firewall so this idea looks like a winner.  I'…

Arc Solutions takes it personally...

I can't say I blame them.  I'm sure there are some very qualified programmers at Arc that are proud of their product.  My experience was less than stellar. So, here's what I'll offer.  It seems there might be a new version out.…

Arc Express comments

Bennie from Arc found my blog and wrote a couple of comments on this post.  I started writing a response but it got a bit lengthy for a comment so I decided to throw it into a new post: Bennie, thanks for responding.  That install was almost half a year…

Putty and CTRL-Shift-6, X

Helped someone figure out a weird problem just now.  He would telnet to a router and then telnet back out to a host.  He would then try the ctrl-shift-6, x sequence and he would get nothing on the screen.  He could type disconnect 1 and get no feedback but as…