Archive for the ‘ Technology ’ Category
I have recently stumbled upon SmoothWall Express 3.0 SP1. I am getting down-right giddy thinking about all the neat things I can do at home with this thing. SmoothWall Express is a stand-alone, open-source firewall project. It has a large, active community full of helpful people. Some of these helpful people create mods to extend the [ READ MORE ]
Although I have never been a fan of The Apple Way tm I was super unimpressed by their new iPad showing. After all, these are the guys who really did a lot to bring the mobile data device away from BlackBerry and business users into the main stream so much more so than it already [ READ MORE ]
After one week of struggle, head ache, and a very patient girlfriend I have OpenVPN running in a bridged configuration! What follows are the steps that I had taken (minus the blood, sweat, and tears): Read the OpenVPN HOWTO! Nothing will replace the knowledge of how this beast works. Bridge your OpenVPN virtual network adapter with your [ READ MORE ]
I recently purchased a Synology DS409 (more on that another time). This has prompted me to restart work on something I have wanted to do since I moved into my apartment three years ago: build an infrastructure to house my e-mail, web, various media, and other content all in one place, all under my direct [ READ MORE ]
At the Singapore Robotic Games where “automation is a key factor towards advancement… to a technologically sophisticated country” some people have built a maze for robots to run through. This is very similar to something I had done in high school except my maze and robots were virtual. With the introduction of the LEGO Mindstorms things [ READ MORE ]