I’ve finally given up on FreeNAS. What was initially a great and simple system has turned out to be quite problematic. The two show stoppers for me where:
The hard drives, either went missing, wouldn’t mount, would sometimes mount, then later fail. It was completely random, and the error log would literally say “error mounting”, nothing [...]
Having been an Ubuntu user for a few years now, I decided to try a version of Linux based upon Ubuntu.
The best distribution I came across was Linux Mint. It’s currently based upon Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). The main difference is that it (against Ubuntu philosophy) includes non open source packages, such as codecs and [...]
I watch quite a few movies on my Samsung YP-P2, so am always having to covert the AVI’s I currently have to SVI’s. An SVI is still an AVI, just a different extension name and a few key points, which include not having any b-frames, the video being 480×272 in resolution, and a few other [...]
I upgraded my desktop pc recently. I bought a new cpu, motherboard, memory and graphics card. With Ubuntu in mind, I went for:
Intel Core 2 Q6600
MSI P35 Neo2
4Gb Corsair TwinX RAM
Gigabyte Silent nVidia 8600GT
Akasa Evo 120 CPU Cooler
Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste
I overclocked my 2.4Ghz Q6600 to 3.2Ghz quite easily. This was done by setting [...]
I’ve been using rsync for a while now for doing backups.
I currently run my main pc, and a network pc (acting as a NAS), and use rsync to backup files between each pc. Here’s an example command.
rsync -rvt -pog –delete –progress –itemize-changes –stats "/media/storage/music/" "/media/backup/music/"
-r = recursive (to include sub-folders)
-v = verbose (so it shows [...]