I habitually block outbound connections to tracking services like google-analytics.com. (I use Little Snitch for this.) Just because I don’t like them. Recently I noticed I often can’t connect to youtube.com, getting “server not found” errors. Amazingly, once I let google-analytics through again, everything works. I haven’t verified exactly why this happens so I’m guessing [...]

I have to add a little niftiness to my previous post about how to start a NAS over the local LAN. After diving into the WebRelay manual a little more carefully, I discovered that you can easily send commands using only the URL. The following command causes relay 1 to close for 7 seconds: …so [...]