Far more scary then Virus and Spy Ware found on computers is some of the new methods that thieves are using to get debit and credit card information. Credit Card theft is on the rise, and there are even Russian crime rings that will sell valid numbers for extremely cheap. (Under $1.00 each!) But some [...]

PDF files are a bit of a love/hate relationship as far as I’m concerned. I rarely need to create them, but I’m constantly looking at them as documentation for various products. Acrobat Professional is a bit expensive, even when bundled with the rest of the Adobe Suite. So a quick Google search later and I [...]

The server is up and running, the drives are formatted and now serving just under 750gb of Raid5 goodness. Since I have a mixed network of machines, Windows and Mac I need to make it will work with each of those. So we’re going to setup SMB. I could also setup NFS as it’s slightly [...]

In Part One I talked about selecting the hardware and my thoughts behind the choices I made. It’s all been put together and the next step is to install an OS. For various reasons I decided to install FreeNAS which is based off of FreeBSD. It can be grabbed from here. After a few minutes [...]

I recently came to the conclusion that I need three things. More Disk Space Reliable File Backup Centrally Available File Storage for multiple machines and operating systems There are multiple solutions to these three problems. Each can easily be tackled separately and there are a ton of good products that do each quite well. But [...]