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The fool's herald.

Replaced the old router with a…

Posted on 2009-05-09 by Tsukasa

Replaced the old router with an IPCop installation. Sweet toy :3

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My NAS Part 03: Do, Did, Done.

Posted on 2009-03-21 by Tsukasa

So, my NAS is up and running. It’s feature- and hardware-complete and I’m loving it. The Fujitsu-Siemens SAS controller worked out of the box (as predicted) and wasn’t castrated to only operate on FSC boards (nice!). The only thing I … Continue reading →

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My NAS Part 02 – It’s coming together

Posted on 2009-03-08 by Tsukasa

This series of posts will follow along as I build my very own NAS. In this second part I’ll talk about the user experience of some of the basic hardware with Linux/Solaris. So, I’ve finally added the missing pieces, namely … Continue reading →

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Find and Mount

Posted on 2009-02-21 by Tsukasa

Sometimes it just happens: Partition layouts break due to user mistakes or software/operating system errors. You’re quite lucky if your partition table just gets a tabula rasa because this means you can still recover most of your old files and … Continue reading →

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My take on nVidia’s VDPAU

Posted on 2009-02-17 by Tsukasa

Modern HD content devours a plethora of performance. My CPU spikes at 100% whenever I watch 1080p content, leading to framedrops and stuttering audio on my Linux machine. I never really understood exactly why the same video would work on … Continue reading →

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Awesome-o-Tron!

Posted on 2009-02-11 by Tsukasa

This is so awesome. Would be even better if it could change color… or maybe it does 🙂

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My NAS Part 01 – Cooking something up

Posted on 2009-01-30 by Tsukasa

This series of posts will follow along as I build my very own NAS. In this first part I’ll talk about some of the things that happened up to this point. As clever readers of my blog probably noticed already … Continue reading →

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Anger Management

Posted on 2009-01-09 by Tsukasa

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 — “Don’t shout at your JBODs, they don’t like it!”

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Howto: Run Vector Magic Desktop Edition with Wine

Posted on 2008-12-31 by Tsukasa

Vector Magic is pretty cool. I loved the project back in the days when everyone could use it for free and was happy to see that they started providing a desktop client after going commercial. Even better: The client is … Continue reading →

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Howto: Fix Wuala’s Copy & Paste on Linux

Posted on 2008-12-26 by Tsukasa

If you’re using a recent KDE version you’ll notice that Wuala’s Copy & Paste feature doesn’t really seem to work anymore. Instead of using the contents you specify within the application (say, files and folders) it’ll always use the contents … Continue reading →

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Good Service

Posted on 2008-12-17 by Tsukasa
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Wuala Web Downloads

Posted on 2008-12-16 by Tsukasa

Wow, now that’s quite an update. Now you can download public files as well as password-protected files from the web. Share all your stuff with friends around the world in a safe, quick way. Great stuff that makes Wuala even … Continue reading →

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Using the Wuala API .net wrapper for quick in-folder search

Posted on 2008-12-15 by Tsukasa

An interesting question that came up to me was how to implement a quick, efficient in-folder search engine with the .net wrapper. Of course, by it’s nature this isn’t a given feature and because you’d have to enumerate through all … Continue reading →

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Fixing mouse issues with VirtualPC -> VMware images

Posted on 2008-12-12 by Tsukasa

Microsoft often delivers free-to-test disk images of their products (like, for instance, the new Visual Studio 2010 CTP). These images are – who would have expected that? – in Microsoft’s own VirtualPC format. Luckily, the specs for the disk format … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2008 Essentials

Posted on 2008-12-12 by Tsukasa

Despite all my bickering, Visual Studio 2008 is great. It was well worth the money to upgrade. There are a few things missing from the Professional version, though. The lack of a powerful profiler for everyone still makes me shake … Continue reading →

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