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Article Archive for Year 2012

DIY NAS – Adding Hard Drives and Setting Up Samba File Server

December 25, 2012 – 12:37 am |
DIY NAS – Adding Hard Drives and Setting Up Samba File Server

The next step to making your DIY NAS serve its purpose is to format and add those hard drives (HDD) to the system. You have them all plugged in the different SATA ports and so …

DIY NAS – Installing Ubuntu and OpenSSH (Remote Access)

December 16, 2012 – 5:00 pm |
DIY NAS – Installing Ubuntu and OpenSSH (Remote Access)

Now that you’ve your hardware all picked up and assembled, it is time to put them to work. In this part, I will walk you through the initial installation of the Ubuntu Server OS itself …

True Skin – A Possible Future

November 25, 2012 – 5:36 pm |
True Skin – A Possible Future

What will our future be? What kind of technology will there be, researched and developed in such a way that it changes the way we live completely? “True Skin” is an intriguing video that discusses …

Lego Pop-up

November 18, 2012 – 4:53 pm |
Lego Pop-up

Lego bricks are building blocks for great sculptures, models and all kinds of things. They come in various form and sizes, allowing you to mix and match to your heart’s content. I’ve come across several …

Raging Over Video Games

October 28, 2012 – 3:14 am |
Raging Over Video Games

We’ve all seen videos capturing gamers’ rage. Some of such videos showcase the smashing of keyboards, the screaming at a lifeless monitor screen, the verbal abuse and vulgarities galore and many many more. My god …

Calm Before the Storm

October 27, 2012 – 1:46 am |
Calm Before the Storm

271012, the calm before the storm. Lets see what awaits me in the coming days.
[photo by krystian_o]

Sweets

October 14, 2012 – 5:21 pm |
Sweets

“If you don’t participate, you will not get the packet of sweets.” How cruel. “It’s alright. Since you’re injured just do your part. Go on then”. Ever since I’ve gotten injured I’m unable to participate …

Why DIY a NAS?

September 30, 2012 – 8:13 pm |
Why DIY a NAS?

Having setup and run SwiftNAS (my home’s DIY NAS) for little over a week already, I thought it would be nice to share with you a little of my experience in the form of a …

DIY NAS – Purchasing and Assembly

September 16, 2012 – 8:43 pm |
DIY NAS – Purchasing and Assembly

Purchasing the different components and parts of the NAS requires some thinking and deliberation.  While all parts should work as long as they’re paired correctly (e.g socket 1156 motherboard with a socket 1156 cpu), some …

DIY NAS – Decision Making

September 16, 2012 – 3:57 pm |
DIY NAS – Decision Making

Long long ago, I’ve owned a Network-Attached Storage. One word, it was crap. It was cheap and the performance spoke for it. It was my first time dwelling into the world of network storage and …

iOS Fluid Football Review

September 2, 2012 – 3:50 pm |
iOS Fluid Football Review

Fluid Football (a.k.a Fluid Soccer in the US app store) is a tactical football game where it places you in preset match situations with the main objective is to score a goal. It is your …

Power Searching with Google

August 20, 2012 – 12:36 pm |
Power Searching with Google

Google Search is a god sent tool for people all around the world. All kinds of people use it for all of their different purposes. We do have many other alternatives but in my opinion …