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First all, Happy New Year to all! This is the first post of 2012, and I want to give my 2 cents on why tech stock, especially new IPOs aren’t doing so hot. Market not understanding value of tech? This is a common excuse tech companies use to explain their lukewarm stock performance. Just look [...]

Irrelevant Prologue: It’s been a while since my last post, and just want to reassure everyone that I am still planning to do another build of my poor man’s drobo NAS. So please stay tuned and follow me on Twitter to get updates. — Now let’s talk about the main topic – ISP/Carriers. I recently graduated from [...]

This was an insanely well-written biography for Steve Jobs that covered everything from the history of his adoptive parents, his early days at school to the eventual success he had with the companies he built. Walter Isaacson did a great job to recreate the past events and more importantly the emotions and struggles of the person – [...]

As previously mentioned, OS X Lion does not support logging into NAS boxes running Samba or AFP servers that employ the DHCAST128 authentication method. Apple documented this as a security update, in which they outright disabled DHCAST128 in Lion. People who are running type of NAS system – FreeNAS or store bought boxes will not work [...]

There’s something to celebrate this month – release of FreeNAS 8.0 Previously, the FreeNAS project has stuck with the decimal 0.x scheme for build numbers. the latest nightly build we used for the DIY storage appliance was 0.7.2. Since then, the number jumped from 0.x to 8.0, with 8.1 baking in the oven. Taking a [...]

This will be a short post regarding the new Greenpois0n RC 6.1 Release for jailbreaking your iDevice running on 4.2.1. For the longest time, we had to use the alpha Redsn0w release that not only required a 4.2b SHSH but the actual 4.2b IPSW which is only available to iOS developers. The Greenpois0n RC 6.1 [...]

If nobody knew what Wikileaks was, they probably do now after the arrest of Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. It’s ironic how the whole drama of his arrest and other allegations actually boosted the popularity and support of Wikileaks. I have long heard about the site, but never really dug into any depth. I mean let’s face [...]