Jan 24, 2017 | eOS, IT, macOS, PC-BSD |
I’ve been wanted to get back to where we started, specifically my MacBook Air (MBA) and doing something with the spare partition I created when I setup eOS, but I hadn’t really found the time or decided what I was going to use it for.
Given FreeNAS runs on FreeBSD I thought that was probably the most sensible option, so decided to give PC-BSD a shot, mainly as I expected that to be a lot easier than trying to install FreeBSD and then get a desktop environment up and running (although I had managed that in a virtual machine running a Xfce desktop). If PC-BSD works, then maybe I’ll try that next.
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Jan 23, 2017 | IT, Other |
After getting to grips with Alexa (well kind of) I thought I’d ramp up the home automation and get a Harmony remote to consolidate all my other remotes and allow for some further voice activation.
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Jan 19, 2017 | FreeNAS, IT, Server |
Always a pain, but at least with my FreeNAS set-up, it’s never too much of a worry knowing I can tolerate 2 failed drives without any loss of data, whilst also having the safety net of a full local backup.
To be honest, the drive in question hadn’t actually failed but had reported SMART errors for a month or so. It started with just 8 unrecoverable sectors, which I tend to ignore for a short time. Only when it jumps above 8 do I take action, which it did yesterday.
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Jan 11, 2017 | FreeNAS, IT, Software |
In my earlier FreeNAS post I talked about my use of VirtualBox (VB) and thought it might be useful to do a ‘How to…’ type blog showing show to create a VB jail and get a Virtual Machine (VM) up and running. It’s really not that difficult, I promise!
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Jan 8, 2017 | IT, Leisure, Star Wars |
I’ve seen these decals on other people’s Mac’s before, and always thought they looked a bit tacky, but when I saw this one pop up in my Facebook feed, I couldn’t help but click the link.
It cost less than £10 delivered from www.decalontop.com so I was seduced by the Dark Side 😀
It was a bit of a pain to detach from the backing paper and then transfer onto my Macbook, and initially, I wasn’t too impressed as it had a number of trapped air bubbles (even after trying to move them to an edge of a credit card) which made it look a bit naff.
After a few days though they’ve completely gone, and I now think it looks great! Hopefully, it will last the 3 years I plan to keep it for…
Jan 7, 2017 | FreeNAS, IT |
So I finished off part 1 with the following list of things I use FreeNAS for…
- Plex Media Server (a couple of jails)
- PlexPy
- PlexEmail
- emby
- ownCloud
- nextCloud
- openVPN
- Unbound (DNS)
- Calibre
- Webserver (FEMP)
- Nginx Proxy
- VirtualBox (4 jails running various Windows, Linux and FreeBSD OSs)
Here’s a little more about how I use them! (more…)
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