Evan Youngblood

I just setup an account at Citrix.com, so I could view more information about their products. This is the message I get when I try to login.

I’m speechless. Back to VMware!

Oh, and Citrix – thanks for sending my “complex” password in plain text in the confirmation email. Great security practice there.

For home users, Microsoft now offers a free set of anti-virus and anti-malware tools called Windows Security Essentials. You can download your free copy here.

I faced a dilemma, my media collection had exceeded the capacity of my 1TB hard drive. I began adding additional content into a second disk, but that required switching between “Media” and “Media2″ on the media centers placed around the house. I was looking for a solution which would future-proof my setup as much as possible. Enter the Drobo.

The Drobo (www.drobo.com) is a RAID-like device that allows you to insert up to four SATA hard drives, connect them to your computer via USB or FireWire 800, and use them as a single external drive. The concept is very well done, in that you can put in random drives, as opposed to a RAID setup where the capacity of the drives used must match. Data Robotics took extra care in making the Drobo good looking as well as very simple to use. You don’t need any knowledge of RAID, NAS, or SANs to make the Drobo work on your setup, just plug it in and go. (continue reading…)

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