Household
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A tale of two AirPorts

The concept of a “guest” WiFi network, open to anyone but isolated from the rest of my home LAN has always been appealing… The feature has existed in the AirPort Extreme routers since the third generation (circa 2009). Originally the feature would disappear the moment you turn off router functionality and place the AirPort in
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Banishing Inferno to the Basement

I’m now back to my regular ol’ routine, just finished a week long “staycation.” So other than spend quality time with the family, what does a system administrator who doesn’t have to go to work for a week do with his time? Pull some CAT5 and clean up my home network, of course! Inferno, my
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Preppin’ Baby’s Room

Never quit moving this whole weekend. Finally managed to dedicate the time, along with Jessie’s parents to get the baby’s rooms ready for the arrival. Started at around 10:00 AM Saturday morning and did not stop until this evening…
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Electrocutions, Sliced Fingers and Switches

Most of the light switches in our house are the Leviton decorative types. We only had about four switches that were of the ugly, old fashioned variety. Jessie, for some reason, had the ambition to see to it that we replace the eye-sore light switches yesterday evening. Seeing as how I’ve also been thinking of