The $285.00 CDN (at time of publishing) AirWire wireless network adapter is a bit pricey for the average user. The promise of this device is the ability to use multiple wireless streams to exploit faster than gigabit bandwidth without wires. This uses the new MLO technology from Unifi. With all this bleeding edge I wanted […]
For enthusiasts everywhere, the prospect of fighting an ISP’s choice of modem and router is daunting. In the case of Bell Canada, they’ve used routers that have been dubbed Gigahub and Gigahub 2.0. In the first version of the router, there was no “bridge” mode available, but if you place a router behind it, you […]
For a NAS device, the UNAS Pro 8 is at perfectly reasonable price-point of $1,145.00 before taxes. The drives are always what’s going to cost the most in this or any NAS. Just like the Cloud Gateway, you’ll have to buy the SSD tray. In this case, it takes two of them for caching, and […]
Merrium-Webster defines immutable as “not capable of or susceptible to change.” In the context of a backup or a stored copy of data, this means that data can’t be changed, moved or deleted. But why would you want to make a backup immutable? The main reason is to combat a type of malware attack called […]
It just was a matter of time that I’d come back this great show. My first attempt at watching it in 2015 was such a different era for technology. Mr. Robot almost seemed like an answer to the kookiness of The Matrix by plopping the hero into a real-ish world with the technology depicted right […]
Yes, it’s a weird topic to post here for a technology site. But hear me out; I’ve had a colonoscopy and I wanted to say that this was worth it. For the years since I turned 50, I’d been doing the very easy-to-use FIT Test. This test has always been great because of its ultra-low […]
Digging through the vault of older CWL software, I came across a utility that I’d created in, oh, 2003, with a plan to sell it. That never happened, but the tool was still a thing and I’d spent hours coding and testing. Today, let’s look at what the program did looked like. If there’s a […]
Being new to the act of 3D printing, there was a world of difference between my impression of this and the reality. In the past, much has been reported about these tools either printing illicit gun parts or Batman figurines. I knew there was more to the story, but this needed a hands-on time to […]
For some time now, my daily drive laptop has been a Windows PC. Back years ago when I was using a Macbook Pro, the Windows feature WSL wooed me back to the platform. It was nice to be back on familiar ground again with Windows, doing things I’d always done before (and running Total Commander […]
Today I happened upon a sale for an iPhone 17 Pro. I’d arranged the meeting, but I’d been so leery of the sale that I didn’t even bring money with me. The seller, I’ll call him Isaiah, was cordial, but seemed to be full of stories. As he was describing the phone, it was filled with extraneous story details. He was selling me a fake iPhone.