Growing up as a kid, we left the outer garage door closed and the inner door open. Never had any problems. Those days are over. Until recently, leaving the main entrance door to an office open for visitors was the norm. Those days are also over. For the inner garage […]
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Recently, we installed a Lorex HD Security Camera System LNR84W at our shop. The system includes Lorex’s LNR400 Series Network Video Recorder (NVR). The actual model number we received is LNR408. Also included is four (4) LNB3143 high definition 1080p bullet style cameras. The most impressive features: The NVR has 8 […]
I was content simply using the Verizon provided Actiontec Router at the head of my home network until I logged into my Verizon account and saw this: This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the Verizon e-mail account I’m forced to create when I got Verizon FiOS is […]
Update 9/16/2016: We have a better way of doing it now! VMware ESXi USB RAID 1 (Mirror) Redundant Boot Device Although most new servers today have built-in redundant SD Card slots for booting ESXi server, our older Dell Poweredge T310 does not. As we continue to virtualize physical servers, booting […]
Our phone system has the ability to add music on hold, so why not? With Apple being the leader in music playing devices, I looked to them first. We don’t need anything extravagant nor lots of storage. The iPod Shuffle looked perfect with 2GB of storage at $49. I usually […]
When making a backup strategy, you must always consider off-site storage. If your backups are on-site and a fire or flood occurs, you may not be able to recover your data. If you’re using external USB drives for backups, you should rotate at least two drives taking one off-site. How […]