With the price of terabyte level storage media coming down significantly in the past few years, we decided it was high time that we setup a network backup server. In reality, the price of a computer and storage is marginal in relation to the cost of losing the data that i am rather embarrassed we have not done it sooner. Not wanting to invest in software, and also wanting to keep OS size down to a minimum, we decided on Linux as an OS. Since we had a copy of Ubuntu 9.04 on disk,.....

A couple of weeks ago, I read an interesting article about Ekahau Heat Mapper through my RSS subscription to Lifehacker (article here). Ekahau offers a range of features depending on the version you choose (from Free to Survey professional). From their website, the primary features are listed as: "Ever wondered how far your wireless goes, or how far do the neighbouring wireless networks extend to? Ekahau HeatMapper will display the coverage area of all the access points in the .....