Grunts

A new page? Damned right. Tech Grunts. Stuff I’ve done in tech in the last quarter. Savour it, because frankly I don’t do enough technical anything out of my job to warrant a page, but here’s some simple bits, which will leave you realising how dull and domestic my life now is, from a certain perspective. Sigh. Home networking. This was actually a bit funny. I was copying some files to the 2011 Mac mini which is currently bolted to the TV (sort of) and also copying the ~100GB of photos on there to the backup server, and thinking. “This seems slow. This could be quicker”. Peering behind the TV, the horrific amount of cabling, under all the dust, was a dear, old friend - my Planex 8 port switching hub. More specifically, my Planex FX-08IMW which is a 100mbps switching hub. That in itself is not a bad thing, and the device is 12 years old, and works so well that I’d completely forgotten about it. More power to it. However, files have gotten bigger, and that photo backup, not to mention GoPro video backup was indeed taking longer and longer, so I went to cost up an upgrade. ...