My bacon recipe

After much trial and error over the last year, I’ve settled on a standard cure for smoked bacon.  I started with the smoked bacon recipe from Charcuterie and made my variations from there.  I like a sweeter bacon but also want…

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Burger Quest: bun

Every burger has to go on something and traditionally that means a bun.  Bread is out simply because it gets soggy and you can’t handle the burger anymore, and there is no way to eat a burger other than picking…

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Atola Technology

I was browsing last week when I came across Partition Find and Mount from Atola Technology: it’s a utility to mount a lost partition as a drive.  Nice for botched formats, failed boot sectors and the like.  This led me…

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HWMonitor

An excellent little utility from the makers of CPUID.  Run the single executable to start up HWMonitor and it will connect to all the monitoring hardware in your system and display what it can: temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, etc.  Works…

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SOHO Email

I read a post today about setting up hMailServer on your Windows Home Server (WHS).  This reminded me of a lot of comments made during the beta stages of WHS when testers kept asking for a mail server like Exchange…

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