Stuff I Think
Technology, business and general thoughts
Kindle Touch Font Replacement
So my wife recently got a Kindle Touch, but was unhappy with the font selection on the device. The Kindle Touch uses a new operating system from the older Kindles, which means that most of the tips and tricks that worked on the old Kindles no longer do on the Touch. While I have not [...]
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Set Up Windows 7 Under Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion
I’m writing this for all of my incoming classmates who may want to set up their new MacBook Pros to use Windows under both Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion. I do this personally, because while Fusion works for 99% of what I need it to, it’s nice to be able to use Windows natively if [...]
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How Wikileaks Won the Future
Sunlight is the best disinfectant -Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis One of the most jarring effects of “Web 2.0″ has been the much-lamented death of privacy. Thanks to the power of computing systems to manage unimaginably large data sets, almost everything you do online or offline can be tracked, stored and searched. Digital data doesn’t [...]
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Google Apps Authentication for Drupal 6
I recently had a need to use a Google Apps domain for authentication with Drupal. This module is for Drupal 6 for a number of reasons – the module base of Drupal 7 is not quite mature yet, and the other modules I wanted to use for my site did not exist under Drupal 7. [...]
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How Apple Won the Tablet Wars
So, in my opinion, Apple has won the tablet wars. They didn’t win by default, but given the locked-in nature of their platform, they won when nobody released a credible competitor for an entire year after the release of the iPad. To look at this, let’s analyze how they did it, why they will continue [...]
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Fixed Data Usage Caps – Why They’re a Bad Idea, but Mostly Inevitable
Back in August, 2008, Comcast announced a 250GB per month data cap. At the time, it seemed ok, because 250GB was a lot of data and there weren’t a lot of legitimate consumer applications that could even use that much data. There was very little chance of your average user eclipsing the caps, or really [...]
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PS3 Media Server with WHS
The biggest pain in the ass with online video is getting it in the right format to play on a TV. For example, if I download a video off the internet (say, from iTunes) I can’t play it on my PS3. I don’t want to have an HTPC hooked up to my TV just for [...]
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Offline Files with WHS
From my time as a Windows network engineer, there are a number of features that I wanted to have at home. Offline Files is one of them. They allow you to automatically synchronize files between a workstation (i.e. a laptop) and a server source in a way that is more or less transparent. As soon [...]
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L2TP/IPSEC VPN on Windows Home Server
Once I started playing around with WHS and integrating it into my daily life, I wanted to be able to remotely connect back to my server to perform remote backups while on the go. Fortunately, as WHS is more or less a full version of Windows Server, and in my former life I was a [...]
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TimeMachine with Windows Home Server
I’ve been a Mac user for years. I’ve tried to use TimeMachine, but the biggest limitation is that it really needs a physically attached disk to work well, and I never had a NAS device capable of storing enough to use TM.
After installing WHS, it was a no-brainer to try to set up TimeMachine to back up my Macbook Pro (which is my primary computer.) This feature doesn’t work out of the box, however, so there are a few things you need to do.
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