An overview and history of my DIY Ambilight, it’s shortcomings, and potential solutions. Thoughts about the future of how make it better.
Hobbies
Aquarium Keeping, Snowboarding, Web Design, Etc.
Crouching Slave, Hidden Master
DNS Hidden Master overview, how-to, and configuration using a public slave implementation on NSD with DNSSEC zones enabled.
Nanobox Hybrid Review and PAR Analysis
Nanobox Hybrid LED/T5 Hybrid tested on saltwater reef tank with PAR analysis. Lighting fixture tested using several different configurations. In-depth PAR analysis.
Reef Aquarium 3.0
An introduction and update on the third iteration of my Saltwater Reef Aquarium, build details, lessons learned, and detailed information.
Building a Linux HTPC
I consider myself an avid Linux user. I suppose I should qualify that by saying I love Linux, and I enjoy using Linux but I am by no means any sort of expert on the platform. With that said, I try to use it wherever I can being a big fan of the FOSS community and enjoying the ability to make something exactly how I want it. My home has always made heavy use of HTPC’s (Home Theater PC’s) and historically I have just taken whatever old hardware I had lying around and used it for this purpose. Up until about a month ago my two HTPC’s were both old Mac’s I had stopped using: A 2009 Mac Mini and a 2006 Macbook Pro. As such I left them running their native OSX and everything worked fine. I started having issues with the older Macbook Pro recently, though, where it […]