Upgrading a NetGear Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ to 6TB

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Adam Nash

Recently, I’ve been evaluating different solutions for upgrading my home storage solution for backup and file storage.  A couple of years ago, I decided to purchase an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, which offers appliance-level simplicity to deploy a virtualized drive over a flexible RAID system.   It’s a 4-drive system that supports hot-swapping of drives and optimized [...]

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I May Have Stepped into a Parallel Universe around 2000

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Adam Nash

I’ve had the growing realization over the past few years that something may be amiss with the universe.  As a fan of the various modern theories of quantum cosmology, it’s occurred to me that I may have accidentally ended up jumping out of the theoretical universe of maximum probability into another quantum variant. I think [...]

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How to Convert MKV to MP4 on Mac OS X

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Adam Nash

A lot of video online is being distributed in MKV format (aka “Matroska Video”).  Not knowing anything about this format, I did a search for ways to convert this to MP4 for the AppleTV/MacMini/iTunes family, but found mostly Windows-based or command-line utilities. Then this forum discussion popped up, and pointed me to a very cool [...]

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