Author: Nerd Drivel

Knowledge is power. Empower yourself! I've been a computer nerd since I was 7 years old. I started in the days of the Power PC with a Commodore 64. As I grew so did my knowledge and curiosity, anything I could take apart with a screw driver would be opened and investigated. Later on I went on to graduate from a post secondary Computer Engineering program. Today I work in an IT department for a mid sized company, I get to tinker and toy with gadgets of all types, fuelling my passion for technology and software. I understand computers more than I understand some people.

Whatcha talkin’ bout? FOO! Setting up proper fail over in a Cluster.

Here is what a 2 node fail over cluster should look like. Double network redundancy on the back end with each node and the SAN connecting to both back end switches. In order to setup proper cluster fail over the Server needs to be set to Fail Over Only (FOO). Remember that Windows has iSCSI... Continue Reading →

February 2, 2017 0

The age of telemetry and online tracking.

Telemetry has been around for a while, Windows 7 had it, and I believe even Vista might have had it. Having said this Microsoft did not previously sell this information to third parties not did it previously include personal information. When I say personal information I mean your age gender, approximate location, and online habits.... Continue Reading →

January 6, 2017 0

Home Media – Part 3 – The Rip

It's been a while but finally I got around to completing Part 3 of an old series. Part 1: The NAS build, can be found here. Part 2: The Setup can be found here. Part 4: OSMC/KODI/XBMC can be found here. The whole idea of this was so you could have your media at your... Continue Reading →