Archive for June, 2011

So far, LOVING the QNAP.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

The QNAP TS-410 arrived today. I’m in the process of setting it up. So far, we -love- it. The Ooma Telo also arrived. Yay! So We’ll be setting that up soon too..

Nimble Rides Again…

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Anyone remember this awesome thing I called Nimble? I’ve been dealing with workflow / orchestration engines at work for the last week or so. I’ve evaluated a ton of commercial and non-commercial products. I’ve looked at gobs of code. I’ve done a lot of different things to prototype and implement ideas that will scale well, [...]

Screw you, AT&T and Comcast.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I just bought an Ooma Telo. Double Play / Triple Play bundle from Comcast where I end up paying $30 / month for phone service? No thanks. $15 extra line + $10 texting + $12 taxes / fees for a second cell-phone from AT&T? Not Anymore. $12 for a local-only phone line + long-distance carrier [...]

To the (personal) cloud!

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I have an ARM-powered machine on the way. A QNAP TS-410 NAS box. We’re in the process of moving the varnernet email services to google. I’ll be moving the website stuff to another hosted environment (bluehost.com) in the coming weeks. This will essentially mean that — my ‘server’ the 1U mini-itx box known as Rocky [...]