It started as a smart home tool; now I want it to do everything.

Familiarity with basic networking concepts, configurations, and Python is helpful, but no prior AI or advanced programming ...

There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. The workgroup in Windows 11 ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of CBS owner Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance came with a condition to install an ombudsman, which FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has described ...

This is a Python script using the psutil library to monitor CPU and memory usage and log the data to a file. 2025-05-01 12:40:00 - INFO - System monitoring started. 2025-05-01 12:40:00 - INFO - ...

How reliable is your internet connection? That depends a lot on how you measure “good” and in how many different ways. Conventional browser-based tests like the ever-popular Speedtest.net can give you ...

This is a simple network monitoring tool written in Python. It pings the specified hosts continuously and provides real-time latency, success rate, jitter, and other details in a neatly formatted ...

Installing Python and related applications on a system without a network connection isn’t easy, but you can do it. Here’s how. The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big ...

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...