Links from Hanselminutes 349

As if I had nothing better to do (I'm supposed to be cleaning the bathroom), I collected a bunch of links whilst listening to the Hanselminutes podcast episode 349. This show was one of the Hanselminutia episodes where Scott chats with Richard Campbell. They were talking about a lot of home automation stuff that's interesting to me so I gathered links to follow up on later (after the bathroom is clean, of course).

• Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell
• Scott Hanselman - Nest Thermostat Review 2nd Generation
• Synology Network Attached Storage
• Synology - ReleaseNote DS1511+
• Synology - DS1512+
• CrashPlan
• Box - Secure content-sharing
• Dropbox
• Scott Hanselman - Backup Strategies - How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS
• WiFi SD Cards: Eye-Fi Memory Cards: Wireless Photo and Video Uploads from your Camera
• Windows Storage Spaces:
  • Ars Technica - Storage Spaces explained: a great feature, when it works
  • MSDN Blogs - Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency
  • MSDN Blogs - Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces
  • MSDN Blogs - Two new modules related to Storage Spaces for Windows PowerShell
• Gmvault: gmail backup
• Scott Hanselman - Windows 8, Step 0 - Turn on continuous backups via File History
• Plex - A Complete Media Solution
• Foscam.us - Wireless IP Cameras
• Wikipedia - Arduino
• Arduino - HomePage
• Wikipedia - Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi
• Supermechanical : Twine - Listen to your world, talk to the Internet
• Apparently Twine was funded by a Kickstarter: Twine - Kickstarter

Salted Password Hashing

CrackStation: Salted Password Hashing

"The most important aspect of a user account system is how user passwords are protected. User account databases are hacked frequently, so you absolutely must do something to protect your users' passwords if your website is ever breached. The best way to protect passwords is to employ salted password hashing. This page will explain how to do it properly."

Via @SGgrc

JsonFx

JsonFx JSON serialization framework for .NET

xiph.org: 24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed

24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed:

"Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space."