I have a problem. When someone wants to do something interesting, I want to go full hog and dig in; I want to participate and help implement this idea. This can be from anything to dynamically scaled web servers (that’s still in flight) to my current problem: Minecraft hosting. I’ve done video game hosting in…
Category: Technology Guide
Upgrading from FreeNAS 11.1 to 11.2
This weekend I had an interesting experience: A plugin failed for to update and left my jail in an odd state halting all downloads. I figured, “Let’s do the Jail thing, copy out the /var/db/ directory, rebuild/replace/resolve!” It wasn’t so simple. I was reminded of constant errors, related to python compiled SSL 0.9.8, that I…
Why have a NAS?
Network Attached Storage is a technology that allows for centralized access of data. This is traditionally used for things like configuration management, code repositories, and databases; doesn’t sound of much use to the home user, does it? Why not just use my computer to share out some files when I need it? Media, backups, drivers,…