Butter, What?! June 2019 Atif Qazi

Significance of IoT in Classrooms

Internet of Things is a process that aims to transform the way humans and machines interact. While it has far reaching consequences in most sectors across the globe, education in particular will see a significant revolution as a result of...

Butter, What?! June 2019 Pat Regan

Things That Make Pat Nervous: Running Your Firewall in a Virtual Machine

Brian and I often blog about server and network related topics, so our social media following tends to skew in that direction. If you’re reading our blogs, there is a good chance you don’t know what you’re doing. Don’t worry....

Butter, What?! May 2019 Pat Regan

Deal: Kingston 16GB USB Flash Drive at Amazon

Butter, What?! May 2019 Brian Moses

Show Me Your DIY NAS: @Sam010Am's 48TB Node304

One of the things I’ve wanted to do for a long time is to publish other people’s DIY NAS builds which I have come across and share them with our audience. Shortly after I finished the latest in my DIY...

Butter, What?! May 2019 Pat Regan

Choosing a RAID Configuration For Your Home Server

Brian and I have been writing about our adventures with home servers for a long time. He’s been giving away DIY NAS builds for years, and he’s explained his ZFS disk configuration. I’ve been running a little virtual machine host...

Butter, What?! May 2019 Pat Regan

You Should Be Roasting Your Own Coffee At Home!

I have an awesome coffee brewing equipment at home: A Rancilio Silvia espresso machine, a Baratza Preciso grinder, an Aeropress, two Moka Express ports, a couple of French presses, and a cheap pourover cone. Until recently, I’ve only been buying...

Butter, What?! May 2019 Pat Regan

The DIY NAS Giveaway Has a Winner, DIY Studio Lights, and Open Source RGB LEDs!

I was checking my notes and looking for some interesting things to include in today’s post, and I remembered that Brian Moses’s DIY NAS giveaway has just come to and end!