A few years back I was doing some reading about file systems. I was interested in how ZFS and BTRFS hash every sector of the disk in order to detect data corruption. I think of it as a file integrity monitor but at a lower level in the system. Most of the time these filesystems Continue Reading »
There are times when you really need to get back some deleted files. Like a while back when I had a lady at work come to me in distress. She had a bunch of family pictures on a USB drive and had somehow deleted them. I could tell by her face those pictures meant a Continue Reading »
A few months back my son told me he wanted an ant farm. So after some research and help from AntsCanada we got our first queen ant. The ant colony is doing good but it is time to let them hibernate and that is where the Arduino mini-fridge comes in. When doing research I seen Continue Reading »
I have bad internet with data caps. So downloading a Steam game at home is not an option for me. I have also noticed the built-in backup and restore options in Steam kind of suck. Normally when I try to use those my home PC still wants to download GBs of data. But I have learned Continue Reading »
I heard from a sysadmin friend of mine that they have disabled windows script host on all their workstations to protect them from malware that exploits local scrips. This sounded interesting to me so I wanted to check it out. The Windows script host is responsible for running local scrips on your computer including JScript Continue Reading »
