Blog from the Loft

I blogged earlier, I decided to give 41pounds.org a try. They will help me reduce my junk postal mail. I got a packet from them. It contains six pre-filled post card addressed to various data services. They even included the stamps. I am to sign the cards and mail them back to those service centers; [...]

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If there is one piece of hardware that you don’t want failing, it will be a RAID disk array. After loosing a ton of media files, twice, I invested in a serious RAID box. The Infrant Technology NV+. It costs close to $2000 by the time I filled it with 1.5Terra bytes of redundant disk [...]

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I have been running a zwave controlled lighting at home for almost a year now. It’s great. Leviton recently entered the market with their own switches and controllers. They look good enough that I am going to swap out the old switches and install more new ones using Leviton devices. However they seems to have [...]

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