As of late I’ve been diligently working on a new file server system for my home network. The current file server I have utilizes an old Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i RAID card. This worked well to handle the many drives I have, … Continue reading
Well I finally had some time at the end of the day today to finish the FP836 front panel restoration. About the only thing it needed was two new LED’s for the faults. Unfortunately to my dismay the thermal fault … Continue reading
So after sorting the pin out of the FP836 module here, I’ve created a new wiring harness. It’s reasonably simple with IDC single pin connectors and 1 IDC 2×8 16 pin male header. This allows me to connect directly to … Continue reading
Recently I purchased a used SC836 Supermicro chassis, it was pretty much stripped to the bare bones. My plan is to make this into a file server, however I don’t want to utilize a Supermicro motherboard. Lucky for me it … Continue reading
So after some messing around I discovered that with Cyanogenmod CM11 (KitKat) release that USB Mass Storage mode wasn’t working, so after some messing around here is what I’ve found. If you’re like me, you enabled developer mode: Go to … Continue reading
Originally taken from: http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/redhat/rh_lvm.htm Logical Volume Manager (LVM) This is a quick and dirty cheat sheet on LVM using Linux, I have highlighted many of the common attributes for each command however this is not an extensive list, make sure you … Continue reading
After updating my 1005PE with an Intel 6300 network card and additional antennas I wanted to see how fast a real world copy could be through wireless. So I hopped on my internal file server and a large file 9.88 … Continue reading
For a while now I’ve owned an older EeePC 1005PE. I love the thing, running kubuntu 12.04 LTS it’s been a work horse for me. Recently I noticed that my wireless was becoming less reliable, plus it lacked 5GHz support … Continue reading
As a general rule of thumb external journaling on ext4 / ldiskfs type file systems can and will greatly improve overall write performance. This is due to the fact that you’re off loading small (4K) writes to an external disk … Continue reading
So interestingly on my recent trip to Key West, while my Hero3+ silver was charging, I had the LCD touch bacpac on it, unfortunately for me this resulted in burning in the warning icon which comes up on the screen … Continue reading