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DVDs are Dead. Long Live The King. The concept of a disc as the vehicle for watching content is dead. My kids prefer to stream movies to the iPads or Airplay them to the big screen. That said we still have a large library of old DVDs. While the movie industry isn’t excited about users […]
June 28, 2012
The Butterfly Effect or why Time Machine is bound to FAIL such that Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect in regards to time travel? Well despite your best intentions to go back in time to remedy something about your current situation you are usually doomed to failure because of butterflies. So I will […]
April 15, 2012
We’re sending you back to the future Well this might take a few versions. I feel like I’ve travelled down this road a few times before in search of the right solution all while trying to avoid previous failed attempts. My apologies. This post was supposed to go live way back last year, but I […]
April 13, 2012
What is Time Machine? You’ve got to give it to Apple and their wonderful ability to make something as mundane and dreaded as backing up your computer through an archaic interface and turn it into a very cool sexy feature that is actually fairly easy to setup and a joy to use! Time Machine is […]
May 23, 2011
Okay, so we finally have our Synology DiskStation NAS up and running! Drives have been configured and tested. UPS is setup. Notifications are turned on. We are all set to start using this big toaster box of a NAS to finally do something fun! So what can Synology do? I’m sure you have your own […]
May 6, 2011
Did you discover your Synology beeping at you? Did you get a SMS message on your phone or an email saying “Volume 1 on NASname is in degraded mode [3/4]”? Well then, you my friend are in need of this post… Dealing with a failed hard drive… Take a look at your NAS. The Status […]
May 3, 2011
Functionality vs Frustration Once of the things I liked about Synology is that for the most part it just works. I like Synology’s simplified interface, but to be honest in the case of notifications I find that Synology’s clean simple interface without any help or default settings that would work is pretty much useless, and […]
May 1, 2011
UPS? When most folks hear “UPS” they think, “Go Brown”, well this take isn’t package delivery, and in our case “brown” means “brownout.” The key to fighting data loss during a brown/black out is using a UPS or Uninterruptible Power Supply with your NAS. Unlike laptops that automatically switch to their built-in battery during power loss, your Synology […]
April 29, 2011
So you’re ready to slap those hard drives in your Synology and get going? There are basically 2 steps: Install the hard drives into the NAS – Approximately 20 minutes Format the hard drives in the NAS – Approximately 2 hours per terabyte Yeah, step 2 is a joy kill, but at least you can […]
April 24, 2011
Delivery: Well the big day is here! Amazon’s Prime delivery option delivered it within 2 days as promised. While it’s weird to see someone’s personal car pull up and do much of the 2 day Prime delivery (Amazon uses OnTrac for the western states); I did appreciate the loving care they gave the package. I […]
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