GarageBand, Podcasting and GTalk

Well, I guess I better get a post in for the month of November.  Ugh, it's been a long month.  Anyway, fiddling with free podcasting tools and methods and I discovered some updates in Snow Leopard that are pretty cool. I little while ago on Leopard I found…

Stout!

As a fan of flavorful beer I often find myself facing stares of revulsion when I'm enjoying a nice glass of Guinness.  What few people realize is that "dark" isn't supposed to mean harsh, bitter or high in alcohol content.  Found this great article:…

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…

PV149 and IRQ challenges

Ok, so that ZoneMinder install I was hoping to do in the last post...yeah....not happening. I've run into this before but I've decided it's just not worth the trouble of trying to fix it.  For some reason when you install the PV149…

Feels like I'm workign all the time...

I've been busy with work and haven't been able to squeeze in much of anything else.  I've done a couple of things like upgrading Unraid to my Pro key and swapping motherboards.  In the process I discovered that at least my copy (don'…

It's been a long couple of days

Comcast managed to hose up my internet connection which I host this site as well as some forums on.  They did this by assigning my static IP's to another location in their network.  The result was split routes at their peering routers with the majority of traffic going…

I'm still here!

Wow...I knew I had been neglecting the blog but I didn't realize it had been over a month! So, what have I been doing?  Working too much!  This time of year has gotten worse and worse over the last several years.  It seems like the kids all…