Category: techstuff
pfSense firewall project
I’ve been dabbling with pfSense for a number of years, dating back to 1.2.3. It’s a powerful open source firewall developed here in Austin TX 🙂  Recently I have made the effort to upg... Read More
Installing Mythtv on OSX Yosemite
This is a log of my experiences installing MythTV on OSX Yosemite. I started by following the documentation at mythtv.org: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Mac_OS_X You’ll need to download t... Read More
Gartner MDM magic quadrant…SE performance
I have been working on the high scale performance program for the Initiate Master Data Engine (MDM SE and vMDM post IBM acquisition) in large scale commercial settings for over 7 years. I’ve hel... Read More
Recovering lost iPod/iPhone parental passcode
Recently we upgraded our kids’ iPods to iOS 5.1. In doing so our Parental Control passcodes somehow got scrambled and we could no longer install applications. I did not want to erase the iPods a... Read More
multiple Airport AP’s; improving coverage
I’ve been a proponent of using separate devices for wireless home access and general purpose firewall/networking. Â I’ve deployed a VPN/firewall and a 24 port gigabit green switch as the f... Read More
home storage with FreeNAS
I’d been searching for a centralized storage solution on and off for a few years, but I finally got serious about it in the Summer of 2010. Â While searching around, I came across FreeNAS (http:... Read More