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POPSHow I Set Up a Home File Server For Free - A Review of FreeNAS
Installation and setup: To set up FreeNAS as a home file server, you must make sure you have all the proper hardware first. This means you need a multiple port router, or switch to connect your file server to as well as a network cable for the server. For the actual server, you will need a PC with at least one hard drive (I started with 2) and a CD-ROM drive. The setup process was very easy. I downloaded the FreeNAS ISO file and created a Live CD which I inserted into my old PC. If I wanted to, I could started using it as a file server right there (by simply changing the IP address of the server), but I wanted something that I could use in the long term... something that could auto restart with no user intervention in the event of a power failure. This meant installing it to the hard drive. FreeNAS setup made this easy to do. I simply selected which hard drive to install to, and that was it. After a reboot, I had to set up the network interface
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POPSThis Is Scary (Hi Google!) So in addition to storing my searches and my site traffic and my street address and my GPS location ...
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POPS8 Keys to Internet Security As always, be sure to click through and read the full article to get more details on how these 8 (and a half) steps will protect you from those who would do your data harm.
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POPSOh, Hubble, Can This Really Be the End? Getting a bit dicey up there. Surprised some country hasn't worked out a way of collecting space junk. Could start a race as countries try to protect their secrets or find out how other countries do it.
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POPS6 Steps to Secure Your Home Wireless Network Follow these rules to avoid a world-wide exposure of your private computers through wi-fi exploits. You never know when a frendly-looking, intelligent, and un-suspicious looking guy is cracking into your home network while sitting in his car 30 meters down the road.
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POPSOpenDNS for the non-technically inclined When I mistype a URL in the location bar, Verizon hijacks my request and sends me to a B.S. "search results" page (full of ads and spam). This post is a little starter for how to circumvent your ISP's DNS server with OpenDNS.
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POPSChumby -- The All-In-One Gadget The Chumby is an embedded computer consumer product providing user-friendly internet access via a wireless connection. It can be used as an alarm clock, a weather display, a music or video player and more.
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POPSHackers Target Wrong Guy This couple probably represents the majority of computer users, and this news clip shows what can happen if you don't protect your router, as well as your computer. What angers me about this whole situtation is that this gives ammunition to those who want to control the internet and create LEVELS for those who can afford it...the level will be very protected. I also never understood how a public entity can sue people for negative press.
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POPSOptimize Your Network (Connection) Many users of Wi-Fi hotspots and home wireless networks know how to use software applications to find signals to connect to, but an all-important next step is to make sure your connection is optimized.
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POPSWiFi Turns Internet Into Hideout For Criminals These days, the Internet is as indispensable to an officer's arsenal as his gun and handcuffs. Indeed, a growing number of officers are being assigned to patrol cyberspace..."Technology just makes the park no longer the only place where the pervert goes," West said. The problem is going to get worse, authorities said. Every day, more homes, businesses and entire jurisdictions are outfitted with wireless networks, creating an almost seamless patchwork of available Internet connections to anyone with a laptop and the desire to get online.
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