I've just been playing around with a QNAP TS-639 Pro, and apparently it wasn't able anymore to boot from the internal 'DOM' (disk on module). First try to 'flash' a firmware update available on their website failed.. Why...? Looks like they're encrypted by default, so useless if ...

I just recently started to play around with software RAID's under linux, and I thought I'll share a piece of code to watch the progress of a raid-rebuild.

``` {.lang:sh .decode:true} || user@workstation ~ || while [ 1 ] ; do clear ; cat /proc/mdstat ; sleep 5; done

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1 ...

So since I run some old/slow hardware, I want to get the max out of them, speedwise, without upgrading anything on the hardware side. So one of the things I do is to re-compile the applications/libraries with some customized CFlags. CFlags allow you to instruct your compiler (GCC ...

Just a quicky for today.. I could have sworn that there was a oneliner on commandlinefu.com (which is a great page btw!) to add a random album to MPD (Music Player Daemon), but I wasn't able to find it. So time to quickly build one on my own ...

In the age of multi-core CPU's, there's also a need for properly optimized application. Since the vast majority of the linux utilities only allow you to specify ONE input/output file, it's our job to script it to exhaust all the Cores.
When I got my first ...

As the title indicates, this article will show you an example usage of chroot, where we'll clone our currently running system into a disk-image (dd). Doing that, we can afterwards loop-mount it, chroot in it and let all the stuff run, that we don't want on our mainbox ...