Sunday, May 14, 2006

FreeNAS

Paul and I (well mostly Paul since he's the one who wanted to use it) spent some time on Saturday exploring setting up FreeNAS on an older P2/333 machine so that he could use it as a NAS box. FreeNAS is a FreeBSD distribution that has a minimal interface and OS service set to support just file sharing and configuration of shares. It seems to work pretty well now. We had a couple of concerns about the filesystems and the installation and stuff, but he now has a NAS box with about 130GB of storage in it. The issues we had were just a few things. First, with the latest release image, the CDROM drive in his computer wasn't detected properly. It sounds like that shouldn't be a problem except that since the CD was detected, the installation aborted. We went back a few releases to 0.6.0 and that version seems to be working just fine. NTFS doesn't work with the installation as a read/write filesystem. He tried to reformated to FAT and FAT32 but the OS complained that the disk was too large. Its for the better anyway because FAT32 isn't a very efficient format for large disks. He ended up formatting UFS instead. That worked just fine. Then he setup CIFS so that Windows could see the drives as shares.

Monday, May 08, 2006

More photos

I put an album of the ocho rios, jamaica part of our honeymoon up so that I could see them from the Tivo. So the Yahoo Photo stuff I like because of Tivo access, but I like flickr because I like its interface better.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Some photos that are available.

I think I'm going to go with flickr. I started with trying picasa which is how I ended up here. It worked, but not as I expected. So I tried Yahoo photo. You can see some of the photos I posted here.

Then I tried flickr, which is apparently owned by Yahoo anyway, and I think I like it. Here are the photos, but you'll have to join, I think to see the photos because I didn't want them publicly indexed.

Saturday, May 06, 2006

a 4 picture limit?

That's interesting. Maybe I'll give something else a try. I definitely didn't look in to this too far, so maybe I'm just doing something wrong. Whatever.

The Chandler

We couldn't believe the room that we were staying in, so we tried to get a picture of us in the room. ...And then we went nuts taking pictures. The room was amazing!

The hotel prepared a chilled bottle of champagne for us...

They turned down the bed and set out robes for us to use...

We even had fancy chocolates to eat. Posted by Picasa

Back from the honeymoon...

Since the idea here was for me to post some pictures from our honeymoon and our wedding, i'll try giving that a shot.

First Post!!!

Its really deep, isn't it? I just thought of slashdot as I typed it. I really just created this to make it possible to share picasa photos.