Category Archives: General Hacking
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
Backups
It is time. Time for me to go ahead and back up my digital music. It’s something I’ve always intended to do but didn’t want to spend the money. Last weekend, I found a 500GB hard drive at Newegg for … Continue reading
Kitchen speakers and cable management
I had several projects over the last few days. I talked about them a while ago. One was taking my trusty 1″ spade bit and drilling a new hole between the living room and family room. I had a hole, … Continue reading
2.6 kernel on Kuro
Well, I finally got the 2.6 kernel running on my Kuro Box. I had tried and failed several times. Then I was reading the thread about it and realized there should be messages in /var/log/messages. There I saw the kernel … Continue reading
Slashdotted?
There’s an Ask Slashdot about automated CD ripping. I couldn’t resist commenting telling them about abcde and this site. As Navin Johnson would say, “This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need!”
Kuro updates
With the Kuro Box Forums back online, development has restarted. People have updated the Gentoo profile so it’s getting updates again, which is good. And, people have booted a 2.6 kernel on it (although I have yet to be successful, … Continue reading
Squeezeboxcity!
I created a Gallery site for people to post pictures of their Squeezebox setups based upon this thread on the Slim Devices forums. I thought it was cool–and people have looked at it–but no one’s signed up and put any … Continue reading