[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou may have just set up your Tomato router and want to add a bunch of files to your server. All of your music, books, movies, TV as well as your personal data can be placed on the server for remote access. An easy way to manage the data is with samba. Enabling SMB on […]
Category: Blog
These posts are sometimes instructional and sometimes just my personal reviews of products and software.
Ultimate Asus RT-N16 Setup
an ultimate Asus RT-N16 setup that can easily access your files or network while abroad, download your torrents automatically for you, serve your media, host your files, track all your bandwidth and give you fast WiFi
Webseries – Herbert
Herbert is a short new webseries I worked on as a labour of love to hone our crafts. It changes slightly as the gear used changes through the 8 episodes. I had a lot of fun making Herbert. I think episode 7 sounds pretty good. It isn’t too Canadian though, right? Pouring the maple on […]
Upstream light blinking on my modem
I had this issue with my upstream light blinking on my modem for a couple months and Teksavvy couldn’t solve the problem. It was a major factor in my deciding to shop around for other ISP’s at the time and really was serendipity in hindsight. My Thomson DCM-475 one day just started blinking. I hadn’t […]
crontab -e to schedule commands in OS X
Back in my last posting I spoke about backups and how you can use rsync to back things up reliably in a more complete way than finder. In spirit of backup day I will elaborate on scheduling this as REGULAR backups are really the only backups that save us the suffering of lost data. This […]
Backups in Mac OS X using rsync
A friend of mine posted on social media that his faithful MacBook Pro had died on him and left small bits of his projects out of reach on his hard disk. ( He had IT rustle them up) This came at a time when I was experimenting with scripting rsync and SSH to backup a […]
ISP Shopping in Ontario
Earlier this month I moved to a more central location. Change is good, especially when it saves money and makes life easier. HowToGeek wrote an article which also demonstrated a very reasonable way to go ISP shopping in Ontario. I figured if the culture shock of moving to Chinatown can wear off in a few […]
Reassigning Tracks vs Processing
I have always been partial to offline processing media when I was editing. Especially, back when I started editing. The advantage of A-B comparison and highly tuned parameters were all I could see. I would spend hours after an edit processing individual clips or scenes. Sometimes to my detriment. As someone wise once told me […]
CSA Award Nomination: Best Sound in an Information/Documentary or Lifestyle Program or Series
Recently the team at ImagesInSound and I were nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound in an Information/Documentary or Lifestyle Program or Series. I’m honoured to be nominated. Mayday is a great show to work on and all the above the line people are top notch. The great Michael Bonini’s jam packed tracks […]
Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop Environment x64
I decided to flush Ubuntu which aimed at social media and decided to go with a distro I had heard a lot about just talking to friends and colleagues. Linux Mint with cinnamon is very stable (Nvida 319 driver update) almost out of the box on my GTX 260. It’s got a classic interface which […]