Monthly Archives: July 2010

iPad for the sysadmin

By arfore | Published: July 26, 2010
A few weekends ago I had the privilege of being assigned to evaluate an iPad for use as a support tool by my boss. (thanks Ike!) The first order of business was to figure out some basic tasks that we would need to accomplish as sysadmins that we could realistically use the iPad for. Remote [...]
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Life without cable – Part 3

By arfore | Published: July 25, 2010
This is the third in a series of articles on my trials and travails about living the cable-free life. The first part dealt with moving to Apple’s AppleTV platform by way of MythTV and Tivo.  In part two talked about the reasons why I moved from an AppleTV to a Mac Mini-based HTCP setup. This [...]
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