Author Archives: NFec
Installing FreeNX on openSUSE 12.1
I do use DigiKam to manage all my digital pictures. Basically DigiKam is a great piece of software with a lot of functions and features. I really love the support for RAW camera files (I do use a Olympus DSLR), … Continue reading
Hamburg Alster panorama
Yesterday night I did some simple shots at the central lake Alster at Hamburg, Germany. The result is this simple night panorama looking southwards towards the city center. After clicking on the picture there is a “Download” link in the … Continue reading
Building a NAS for home use – Part 4: Assembly
Part 4: Assembly I bought a lot of stuff along with the HP ProLiant MicroServer which needs to put into the small tower of the server. I do show in this chapter what to install how and in which sequence. … Continue reading
openSUSE 12.1 is coming!
I’m using openSUSE since S.U.S.E. Linux 4 something on servers, workstations even since 9.x on notebooks. And here is the counter to the next release: 12.1
My lenovo ThinkPad Tablet
Since a few weeks I’m a proud owner of a ThinkPad Tablet. After thinking about if I shall go for the 32GB version with or without 3G, I decided to keep it simple and I got the 64GB 3G version … Continue reading
Building a NAS for home use – Part 3: Software Installlation
Part 3: Software Setup This part explains how I installed the FreeNAS operating system on my HP ProLiant MicroServer and configured it. In case you are questioning yourself how to install the OS before having the device assembled you really … Continue reading
Building a NAS for home use – Part 2: Components
Part 2: Components Building a NAS or home server based on the Hewlett-Packard ProLiant MicroServer N36L is quite easy. Only a small amount of additional hardware is required to assemble a system with very impressive features and performance. In this … Continue reading
Building a NAS for home use – Part 1: Introduction
Part 1: Introduction After several weeks thinking about how to optimize my backup and storage strategy at home I decided to look for some kind of intelligent NAS solution. When thinking about my needs I was able to define a … Continue reading
Exchange hard disk against solid state disk (SSD)
In the last week I decided to exchange the hard disk of my Toshiba Satellite R630 against a solid state disk and use the old disk as external drive. Made a few pictures of the physical exchange and wrote some … Continue reading
Bios 1.90 EC1.40 Toshiba Satelitte R630
Toshiba released on the 3rd of March 2011 a new BIOS for its notebooks: – Satellite R630 – Portege R700 – Portege R705 So far I do not know which improvements it includes, but soon I wanted to try to … Continue reading