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…
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…
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'…
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.…
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…
I'm mystified as to how Cisco.com can go down worldwide for 2+ hours during business hours and there is virtually nothing in the news about it. I managed to find this reference in the Register. Not surprising as the outage hit the UK in the middle of…
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…
I can't point to a particular reason but for a long time I had been averse to Solarwinds. I'm not sure if it was that I considered them expensive for what they did, difficult to install or some other obscure reason. Regardless, I've been…