Slashdot’s carrying an interesting story about what’s not in the public domain because of amendments to the US Copyright law in 1978. Reading this reminded […]
New Year’s Resolutions
For the past few days I’ve found myself frazzled. My energies have soared and dipped and overall I’ve felt more restless than I have since […]
Is this a Newspaper?
Welcome to The Hindu which sells its front page to yet another Gandhi sycophant (YAGS). I wonder if I should discontinue my subscription to this […]
No Plugging, but everything’s playing!
I disappeared for a couple of days back there. And I’m extremely happy with what I’ve got going for now. In my NAS posts, I […]
NAS 7: Wow, that far ahead already?!
Yesterday, my first attempt at setting up RAID failed. The second attempt worked beautifully and after restart my raid showed up beautifully as /dev/md0 One […]
Hatters? Mad?
In Paul Krugman’s column, I realized why Lewis Carroll’s character was named Mad Hatter! It appears that hat makers used Mercury to treat fur in […]
NAS 6: misadventures too
Ouch! I was in trouble. As reported, I’d set up everything as per the documentation provided, but something just kept on going wrong! First I […]
NAS 5: mdadm adventures
Since I decided to proceed with software RAID, I had to figure out how to get it up and running. After browsing a few articles, […]
NAS–the learning curve
I’ve been browsing. And it’s been interesting. It’s the classic learning curve issue. Since I thought of setting up “redundant” hard drives, I was looking […]
NAS Box Part 3. And other stuff.
Last time we stopped at me being stuck about the screen. After some searching, I picked up a 15.6” Benq LED screen from – where […]