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Hav­ing suc­cess­fully setup a low cost NAS, I wanted to find out how fast my NAS was. More so, since the folks at DD-WRT and Tomato worked pretty hard to get USB work­ing on the Asus 520gu. It all boiled down to Samba ver­sus Win­dows. The results were an eye opener!

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In this post I’ll describe the steps needed to setup a low cost NAS using the Tomato firmware on the Asus 520gu.  This should work with Asus 500 as well.

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The Canon Image­Class 4370dn is a great multi-function printer, one of the few Canon all-in-ones that work on a Mac.

If you intend to con­nect the printer via USB, the instal­la­tion is fairly straight­for­ward.  This tuto­r­ial lists the steps for a Net­work install.

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Inkjet print­ers are great but I hate their out­ra­geous prices for car­tridges. A gal­lon of milk $4. A gal­lon of printer ink $8000! The last straw was when my Canon mul­ti­func­tion inkjet printer refused to even scan to my lap­top till I replaced the car­tridge! Talk about greed. Why does a scan oper­a­tion require a car­tridge? And the worst part was the car­tridge was not even empty, the printer was 2 months old, must’ve taken 10 or 15 printouts.

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The Pana­sonic BL-C131A comes with a win­dows setup CD to con­fig­ure the net­work cam­era.  But you really don’t need a PC to con­fig­ure this cam­era.  This is a howto on how to con­fig­ure this sur­veil­lance cam­era using a Mac.  This tuto­r­ial will work with a PC as well, in case you lost the setup CD!

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