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August 7, 2011

Fixing the DBAN “unrecognized device” crash

by @ 3:56 pm. Filed under Linux, Software

The DBAN logo
Today, I was trying to wipe a hard drive on my gaming machine using DBAN 2.2.6 and kept seeing two "unrecognized devices" in the list of available drives. When trying to run the DBAN wipe, it would crash, complaining about /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
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January 1, 2010

Movin’ on up to the QNAP TS-219P NAS

by @ 7:04 pm. Filed under Apple, Computers, Linux, Technology

QNAP-TS-219P.jpg

I finally decided to bite the bullet and bought a real NAS for use at home. I decided on the QNAP TS-219P for a number of reasons I'll discuss in the post. Also, I have plenty of screenshots showing the QNAP UI and a couple simple benchmarks comparing the performance to a USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.

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November 11, 2007

Cheap, low power mobo+CPU for Linux/etc.

by @ 10:37 pm. Filed under Hardware, Linux

Tux, the Linux mascot
Here's a $60 board and CPU combo that could be useful if you're looking to build a low-powered home network server or web-surfing terminal.
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January 11, 2006

Thunderbird 1.5 e-mail client released

by @ 11:25 pm. Filed under Apple, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows

thunderbird_logo.jpg
Well, after a long time in development, the Mozilla project's Thunderbird 1.5 has been released.
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