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There you are, with that 1TB NAS and you surf mostly the same websites and in the process waste plenty of time waiting on downloads. So why not install your own Squid-proxy server on your NAS? With the Synology and...
In a previous article I showed how to make the Synology reboot a router via a cronjob. There are many more options – such as automatically rebooting your Synology NAS thereafter – you would just extend the script by another...
Having the Synology DiskStation hooked up to the UPS I have avoided any sudden problems when Eskom decides to load-shed again. Over the last few days I did notice (especially since now my iBurst modem and WLAN-access point is on...
Synology is really rocking and have just released the latest beta. I suggest that you sign-up before the beta closes – I did my upgrade last night and everything is working good. Amongst the enhancements (I was looking forward to...
DISCLAIMER: I am not going to educate about the risk of doing this with your root userid. This works for me, as I am behind a secure network. Once you have followed the instructions below, you will be able to...
Update (2008-12-23): I have discovered an alternative to the method below, which works equally well (although not as fast as the DVD is ripped and re-encoded) – details are posted here. Wow – it has taken me nearly 8 weeks...
I have been running Time Machine backups as described in my tutorial for more than a week. In the Apple forums there have been discussions that the above method does not work. However: Backups via Time Machine to a NAS...
So I got this 1 terabyte beauty of network storage where I can stream high-definition video onto my TV (at a gorgeous 5MB/sec videorate) and suffered on the weekend the first power-outage. Although it was a self-induced incident (lesson learned:...
This at least works with the Synology products – in my case with the DS107+. This tip solves two problems for any mac-user – SSH access directly to the NAS as well as ensuring that Bonjour advertises the shares into...
As the DS107+ is a single-bay NAS there is no option for raid. To have proper redundancy you need at least a 4-bay (preferably 5-bay for appropriate speed) NAS-device – which costs a small fortune. With a single-bay NAS you...
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