As promised, first up is FreeNAS. First off a bit of research was needed. Make sure I can run everything I want... Quick recap Squeezecenter for my Squeezebox MediaTomb or other for UPNP DNLA Server Bittorent Daemon with XMLRPC or Web front end i… more »

Those that know me, know I've had a server running at home for some time. Nothing special, but just lots of harddisks - runs a torrent daemon, DNLA/UPNP software - basically central storage and serving for everything I've got. However there were faults… more »

Am back :) I implemented my spam stopping fixes only to break the blogging software - agghh.. Eventually I stripped back everything and got it working and restarted. Fingers crossed we're up and running more. So, to my first new entry: I've been tryi… more »

It's been quite a few months since the last post... Why? Blog spam... I would log in every week or so meaning to post but end up spending about 30mins cleaning out spamming comments off the previous entries. And by the time I finished, any motivati… more »

As promised, another post to update on the nook, and other things.. Been doing quite a bit of travelling lately so have given my latest gear a good trial. First up is my Acer laptop. It's small 11" screen combined with a decent sized keyboard was exce… more »