Archive for the ‘ My Life ’ Category
Today at work, I was installing a new webcam on my boss’s computer. Simple enough. However, he has a corner-style desk, and I accidentally dropped the webcam behind the desk. Unfortunately, I could not simple pickup the webcam from under the desk, because the tabletop is situated on vertical wooden boards. So I was in [ READ MORE ]
While the past couple days in Winchester, MA were pretty fun, things were about to get a lot better. I spent Day 3 chilling (literally) with my friend Ron, Day 4 with my group of friends from elementary school, Day 5 travelling to New York, and Days 6-8 visiting the sites of New York City [ READ MORE ]
Those closest to me know that I was born and raised in Winchester, a small suburban town in Massachusetts. In June of 1997, after finishing the 5th grade, my family and I moved across the country to the town of Tustin in Orange County, California. That was 13 years ago. It is now December 26 [ READ MORE ]
After downloading and installing FreeNAS on my spare PC on Day 1, I began configuring it today. Since I would be using this box as a FTP server, file server, and backup server for Windows computers, I enabled the following services and kept their default settings, for testing purposes: CIFS / SMB NFS FTP After [ READ MORE ]
Wikipedia defines FreeNAS as a “free network-attached storage server,” and I could not put it any better. It’s a great operating system to use if you have some extra unused hard drives laying around. Such is my case. I actually have a few unused high capacity hard drives with a storage capacity equaling a total [ READ MORE ]
Exahertz Solutions, LLC is an at-home tech support company, and they offer their services at very affordable rates. These services come in such areas as Home Networkings, Data Rescue, Mobile, and Audio. On top of offering a wide range of services, an agent at Exahertz Solutions will, after your first service, contact you periodically in [ READ MORE ]
September 2010 marks my 25th year of life, and as look back on it, I can’t help but reminisce about all the great times I’ve had with all the great people I’ve met all over the world, and all the awesome events and places I’ve been to. It’s been a great 25 years, filled with [ READ MORE ]
The Amazon Kindle has always been a device that I have had my eyes on, but I never sprang for it because its $250 price was a bit too high for me, and also because I like to try before I buy. Amazon recently resolved these issues for me, and undoubtedly plenty of other Kindle [ READ MORE ]
After a few months of studying, I took both the CompTIA A+ Essentials and the ComTIA A+ Practical Certification exams, and I am proud to say that I am now recognized as an A+ Certified computer support technician! CompTIA’s A+ Certification is an industry standard that ensures proficiency with computer hardware and software installations, computer [ READ MORE ]
In the Hackintosh world, it seems as though everyone takes a different path to OS X, due to variances in hardware configurations and drivers. My path began this past October when I found out that installing the new version of the Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, was as simple as inserting the retail DVD into my computers DVD drive. Suffice it to say, it was not actually that simple. Read on to find out how I got Snow Leopard installed, and how you can do the same![ READ MORE ]
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