Ram's Technology Notes
In my home setup, we have a mix of devices (Windows 8.x, Windows RT, Windows Phone, Linux, Android and iOS). As part of my home server setup, I’ve setup Samba to share folders with the other devices – there are a few subtleties with setting up the Samba shares so you can access them with…
I was looking at my logs and noticed that smbd had crashed a few times since install. Searched the samba bug database and found this bug which was reporting the same issue. I have applied the patch supplied and updated the package – here’s how I patched and updated: In your samba source folder, run…
As part of my home server setup, one of the things I am setting up is an automated alert system that would send emails when events happen (for e.g. hard disk SMART errors, CPU temperature violation, hard disk out of space etc.). I was looking around to find the best way to send automated mail…
I am in the process of rebuilding my home server which will run Ubuntu Server – I will be putting up a series of detailed posts on my philosophy and experiences through this process. In the meantime, here’s the scoop on setting up the latest version of Samba on Ubuntu 12.04. This post provides a…
I have been using a Windows Home Server 2011 machine as my central backup and quasi-NAS solution for the past three years. About 6 months ago, I had a rather terrible experience with Windows Home Server – I have 3 other computers at home that regularly backup to the WHS every night. On my main…
I use Windows Home Server to backup all my home Windows PCs to a central location. However, lately, I have decided that I would also like to have a copy of what I deem to be critical data available offsite (in this case, outside our home) as well. I investigated cloud backup solutions – Backblaze…
In older posts here and here I described my experiences with setting up the official Buffalo DD-WRT build on the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router. It’s been a while and I’ve been wanting to update the DD-WRT version to the latest available build for this router – 22118. Why? Because being a geek, I just can’t stop tinkering…
This is a continuation of the series where I attempt to build a solution to display WordPress posts with attached images such that the post content itself doesn’t show any of the images and the sidebar instead displays the images. In my previous post I described creating a simple WordPress plugin with an empty widget….
To follow-up from my previous post, I had a unique requirement for our personal blog which was to display images attached to a post on the sidebar and not in the post. The first item I needed to figure out was how do I hook into the WordPress system to make changes. WordPress has a…