Good site for Wireless Hacks
wireless.gumph.org Looks like a good reference for Wireless Hacks. Now if I could just figure out how to hack my Hawking HWC54G to add an external antenna…...
Category: Computers
iTunes Server for Linux
Nate at work turned me on to MT-Daap – a Daap server for Linux. Daap is the protocol that iTunes uses for sharing your libraries. MT-Daap runs as a daemon...
Going to need more space…
I’m starting to rip my CDs onto the Openfiler box and I think I have a problem. I have about 130GB of space available for MP3s. I have about 500 CDs. Each...
Multiple iTunes Libraries
So I have this OpenFiler NAS in the basement now and I want to put my MP3s on it and serve them to multiple computers around the house. (See this, this and this...
Movie Plot Threats
One of the security issues that Bruce Schneier talks about on his blog is movie plot threats. These are security threats that are so over the top that they coul...
A Whole Hornets Nest of Crap
or Tim Learns Four Lessons Holy crap was THAT a huge pain in the ass. I had a couple of hours this morning, so I thought I’d do some preliminary testing b...
RAID Harddrive Test Results
Well, I have tested all six Western Digital WD800 drives using the WD DLGDiags tool and the one Samsung SP8004H drive with the Samsung HUTIL tool. Of the six WD...
MegaRAID Update
So, just because I didn’t have anything else to do this morning I did the following to my Openfiler box: Replaced the power supply (an old ‘Sparkle&...
MegaRAID i4 Makes Me Stabby
It’s official. The MegaRAID i4 is a true Pain In The Ass. Last night I upgraded the firmware in the hope that it would solve my drive rebuilding issues. N...
Openfiler – CPU Upgrade and Rebuilding (again)
The heatsink for my 333MHz Pentium II processor came in the mail today, so when I removed the cover from the Openfiler box to plug in a floppy drive to flash th...