Author Archives: Administrator
Got the new phone
So, going to the Verizon Wireless mall store on a Friday night with the kids is apparently our idea of fun. We got the wife the Droid Incredible 4GÂ which for us was the best balance of price, performance, and most … Continue reading
BTW
So I’ve decided this blog will focus on my home technology and how it affects my family, and how I have to balance my need to be a hyper geek with the needs of the children in the family, as … Continue reading
New phone for the wife
It’s time to get a new phone for my wife–it’s been 2 1/2 years, and the digitizer on her OG Droid is malfunctioning. I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan on my Galaxy Nexus. I had downgraded my wife to … Continue reading
First update in 5 years
I will probably start using this blog for all sorts of stuff since I’m out of grad school nowadays. But it’s probably worth seeing where I am with my digital music since then: I’m still using my original Squeezebox 2. … Continue reading
New server
The new server is working great–it’s got plenty of power and has been rock-solid stable. I ended up with Debian on it, and I’m a lot happier now that I’m running testing instead of stable (for instance, I have FLAC … Continue reading
A new angle
After my trials and tribulations with the Thecus, I realized I needed a real solution. People on the Slim Devices forums had talked about mini-ITX boards with Via processors as low-power, high-performance solutions. Basically I want a real math coprocessor … Continue reading
New stuff all around
I got a temporary SlimServer config running on my Kuro Box with an 80GB drive, and the 500GB backup drive hooked up via USB. It worked fine. I decided to buy an open box Thecus N2100 from Newegg, with upgraded … Continue reading
Ecce mors!
Well, the hard drive was dead. I did manage to get some of the things I wanted off of it (even though I think I have backups everywhere) but I will have to do my configuration over again. Which is … Continue reading
Disk problems
It was bound to happen–I was copying my music files over from my main Kurobox disk to the backup USB drive and noticed a few i/o errors. I dismounted the /datafiles/ file system and tried to do an fsck which … Continue reading
last.fm
I finally downloaded the SlimScrobbler plugin and started using my last.fm account. I have been using the NowPlaying plugin, but that’s not nearly Web 2.0 enough on its own. So if you use last.fm go ahead and friend me and … Continue reading