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Building a NAS for home use – Part 4: Assembly

Posted on 2011-11-05 November 2011 by NFec

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 →

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openSUSE 12.1 is coming!

Posted on 2011-11-05 November 2011 by NFec

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  

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My lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

Posted on 2011-10-22 October 2011 by NFec

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 →

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Building a NAS for home use – Part 3: Software Installlation

Posted on 2011-08-14 August 2011 by NFec

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 →

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Building a NAS for home use – Part 2: Components

Posted on 2011-08-02 August 2011 by NFec

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 →

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Building a NAS for home use – Part 1: Introduction

Posted on 2011-08-01 August 2011 by NFec

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 →

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Exchange hard disk against solid state disk (SSD)

Posted on 2011-04-01 April 2011 by NFec

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 →

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Bios 1.90 EC1.40 Toshiba Satelitte R630

Posted on 2011-03-20 March 2011 by NFec

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 →

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LaTeX/Formatting – Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Posted on 2011-01-13 January 2011 by NFec

Today I found a good guide about many of the options LaTex/TeX offers to format documents: LaTeX/Formatting – Wikibooks, open books for an open world.

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I ordered my first SSD

Posted on 2011-01-12 January 2011 by NFec

Today I ordered a SSD to replace the HDD in my Toshiba Satellite R630 (same like Portege R700/R705). I choose the Curial RealSSD C300 with 128 GB capacity, because the benchmarks were looking very promising. Instead of using the SandForce … Continue reading →

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