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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Android: Connect to an enterprise LAN via LEAP/802.1X
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 18, 2010 4 comments
If you work in an environment where Wifi connectivity is through LEAP/PEAP/802.1X and you have a rooted Android phone, you can use the following mechanism:
Modify the file /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf and add your Wifi APN as follows:
network={
ssid=”your_ssid”
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
auth_alg=OPEN SHARED LEAP
eap=LEAP
identity=”your_username”
password=”your_password”
}
This will connect perfectly on my HTC Dream and should work on any other Android platform as well. Only thing missing now is the proxy support (Google – how can you miss this????)
DDR2 RAM expansion for Synology DS1010+
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 13, 2010 3 comments
The Synology comes factory default with 1GB RAM and has a spare 200-pin slot available for expansion. There has been sofar no confirmation what DIMMs work, but I can assure you that if you purchase a 2GB 200-pin 800Mhz DDR2 laptop DIMM it will work.
I bought a relatively cheap Kingston 2GB PC2-6400 CL5 200-pin 800Mhz DDR2 DIMM (KVR800D2S5/2G). I am pretty certain that any other DDR2 DIMM @ 800Mhz will work although you should make sure that it is CL5 and 5-5-5.
Proof:
MuffinStation> cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3106348 kB
MemFree: 2938772 kB
Buffers: 5320 kB
Cached: 78676 kB
…
Synology – automatic indexing via synoindex
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 13, 2010 32 comments
To my knowledge, no DiskStation model currently exists where the kernel supports inotify. This represents a huge problem for people who have custom scripts to add multimedia to your DiskStations. While the DiskStations media indexer supports automatic indexing of files being added via SMB, AFP or FTP, it is not aware if you move or copy files via SSH/Telnet on the DiskStation directly.
I have therefore written the Synology Media Indexer which is a simple perl-script which scans your video directory and adds new video-files to the indexer. The indexing is lighting fast as only new files get added (compared to the full reindex of all media if you use the “Reindex”-function in the admin interface).
The script will scan the video directory for modified files over the last two days and will then query the synoindex-service if the file was already indexed. If the file does not exist in the index database, the script will manually add it for immediate indexing.
I have included my most common media types in the script, but if I missed something, you are welcome to extend the script (and let me know what types I have missed). The script itself is easy to read, and I suggest you go through the code as there might be minor tweaks you want to make.
The baby has arrived
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 9, 2010 2 comments
It does not pay to be impatient. The longest 5 days in a while – fresh off the factory and just arrived from Taiwan:
This is probably the first DS1010+ in the country. Noise-levels are acceptable and unlike other people complained are not as loud as I thought it would be. In fact the noise is comparable with the DS107+ I am running (slightly louder due to the number of hard-drives I would say).
Setup was painless, the unit weighs in (empty) at about 5kg and has a footprint of an A4-piece of paper. Two gigabit ports, 4xUSB, 1xeSata and 5 drive bays. The drive brackets can be used to mount 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA drives. I populated 4 x 1.5TB Seagate SATA drives and will build a Raid-5 array (gives about 4.2 TB of storage).
I installed the latest beta (DSM 2.3-1118) and the unit is lightning fast – kudos to the 1.6Ghz processor and 1GB onboard RAM (expandable to 3GB). Cant wait to see the read/write performance on the unit, which is about 120MB/sec.
Also a big thanks to Dennis @ Synology for organising the shipping for me. Importing it was a breeze (paid R 900,00 import duties). I still feel that the local distributors (you know who you are) are ripping of customers – I was quoted almost R 16,000.00 for the predecessor of the DS1010, which goes overseas for about USD 1,000.00.
Optware bootstrap for DS1010+
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 9, 2010 No comments
I don’t think today can get any better. Over 4TB of new storage in the making and the IPKG bootstrap for the Synology DS1010+ was just released.
My Squid configuration on the DS107+ will be promptly migrated and although the DS107+ was blistering fast as a Squid/caching server, I can only imagine how much faster the DS1010+ will be.
Good times today (accompanied by a celebratory Jaegerbomb or two).
Potholes – Bring ‘n Tar
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 5, 2010 No comments
This will be a new initiative I am trying to kick off “Bring ‘n Tar”. The muncipalities, traffic departments, road agencies are all not capable of using our tax money in fixing and maintaining our roads, and when initiative is required, I will now seek ways of privately fixing those road hazards which endanger daily thousands of tax-payers.
Not an easy task, as I have not come across a single company willing to fix a government road without explicit permission. So the first hurdle to overcome is to ask the same people who could care less about fixing our roads to actually lift a finger and allow a tax-payer to fix common property.
Here a visual reminder:
No manners – Tarfix
Posted by GNaschenweng on February 5, 2010 1 comment
In my endeavor to personally resolve potholes on a stretch of road I frequently travel, I contacted a company called Tarfix (not going to give them a link, seeing someone at Tarfix with mobile number 083 267 1834 sent me a “Fuck off”-SMS) to enquire if I can hire their services to fix a stretch of public road.
An email was sent to Deon and Kevin at Tarfix (I can only assume that one of those two decided to send me the SMS) and the above caller phoned me, sounded irrate and complained about my “spam-mail”. Needless to say, that person slammed the phone down and chose not to answer my calls. Well, I can safely say that I use my email daily and sofar this is the first incident in 8 years, where someone complained about getting spam. This was supposed to be a trade-enquiry with one email being sent on the 4th February at 12:35.
In any case, Deon / Kevin or whoever you are at Tarfix – your level of maturity and your ignorance of even wanting to talk to me, just proves that you are incapable of running a professional business. I suggest that going forward you fix your lousy email system or internet connectivity, because you are the first person ever having reported an issue. I suppose I will not get a response to my email either.
So Tarfix a word of advise: If for whatever reason you happen to get multiple emails which are not even spam, but are sincere trade enquiries, the “How to phone a customer for Dummies”-book will tell you that you should try and show manners and not insult people within 5 seconds of someone answering your phone-call. If you change your attitude it will do you good and will greatly improve your turnover and give you many repeat customers. (And I would have even given you business – which now goes somewhere else).
BTW – before you morons at Tarfix get your undies in a knot, you should really fix your email system – because I don’t send SPAM and my servers work 100%, ALL THE TIME — AND YOURS DON’T::
