Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

In a somewhat planned and somewhat impulse move, I have acquired another scanner. A Fujitsu ScanSnap S300. Noting that I've mentioned that I already own a ScanSnap S300M, it may seem odd...though its more of an annoyance. That I need to buy the same s… more »

box is such an important server to my home network, while the last time it failed wasn't due to drive failure...there had been times in its past where it was. And, since I was playing around with RAID a lot on orac, I decided that it was probably time… more »

I only needed to scan one photo, and while I do have a Fujitsu ScanSnap 300M somewhere....its Mac only, and I don't own a Mac. I had acquired that scanner during Black Friday last year, not realizing that it was Mac only. It won't even work on Linux.… more »

I finally went to my first Doctor Who Convention....and I got a lot more out of it than I thought I would. Like I got a picture of me with Yee Jee Tso, Paul McGann, and Daphne Ashbrook: more »

Wonder if the people at Xantrex or Amazon.com are wondering what's with all the PowerSource 400s I've been buying? The latest acquisition brings the total to 5. With the latest being the 3rd unit in one room. Somewhere in a past shuffle/outage...I… more »

Finally got around to setting up these 'new' speakers. Wish I hadn't, but once I started I was committed.My old Altec Lansing speakers, which had come with my first Windows computer (after that computer, I was into the building my own from scratch..… more »

Was discussion storage speeds with some friends over lunch....so I wondered if I could get some data comparing the performance.vg0 is are two internal SATA drives, each on their own SATA channel, being mirrored. vg1 is the SANS Digital pair of drive… more »

I've been wanting to try a Port Multiplier eSATA enclosure on my Ubuntu 8.04LTS Server, known as 'orac', for sometime. But, keep getting sidelined by how much it would cost to get a 5-bay enclosure and 5 drives... it would only be a matter of time that… more »

I got the new-ish computer out and started looking at what I could change in it....while digging into it, I discovered it has a SATA drive. So, that meant no moving the old 'box' harddrive into the new 'box' hardware. So, that narrowed the return optio… more »

This morning while I was at home waiting for the building owner to show up to see about some noises inside the wall behind kitchen sink/washer&dryer. UPS showed up with a box from TigerDirect.That should be the off-lease IBM ThinkCenter S51 that… more »

The linux server known as 'box' died from the rain storm on Monday....well, the powersupply had been iffy for a while, and guess it toasted when things came back.Sounds familiar....since its predecessor died in a similar manner....transformer blew...… more »

That brings the number of units in my condo to 3. :cool:I go this one to replace the UPS (a CyberPowerSystems 1500AVR-HO) that was backing up 'lhaven' and the 8 port switch.After getting it set up, I moved my wireless access point (Belkin F5D7130… more »