rashbre central

Well, the boosted ethernet connections worked. Now I have a 2.5Gb Lan running across the house on what I am guessing is Cat 5e cabling.  It ...

It started with Cat 5 and then Cat 5e . The cables that everyone uses to connect their wired ethernets together. Nowadays many people don...

Another post about the LAN changes I'm making at rashbre central.  I still do quite bit of video editing but wondered about running the...

Still on my reconfiguration of servers, I realised a silly thing. I was keeping a spare drive in a cardboard box, on a bookshelf, in case o...

I received this notification today. We now have new and immensely useful bureaucracy associated with being outside of Europe. Our  new dome...

[Technical alert - bypass this post if not interested in computer topics ]  I use my computers for a variety of tasks like music, video, ph...

It's finally time to replace the second of my Drobo 'Data Robotics' units. They are disk drive enclosures that support NAS func...

A fun thing about living in the West Country is seeing the local news coverage of the G7 talks. It's all about the Queen getting off th...

A fun trip is the one from Ballater to Tomintoul, over the little pointy bridge, pausing at the interesting shop that sells soup,  past C...

We finally made it to Scotland, as part of our UK travel itinierary. The less populated areas had footpaths which seemed to be used more by...

We decided to make the journey to Scotland more like one of our road trip holidays.  Instead of taking the most direct route, we'd let ...

This time we've been in Derby, which is one of the homes of the industrial revolution andwas once famous for locomotove buildding. My p...