Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

...I am now doing the process of removing the old 500GB My DVR Expander from it, which'll surely leave it blank. And, then it'll be the process of bonding it with the new 1TB My DVR AV Expander. There was some thought on when I was going to do these… more »

...there's supposed to be like 100 hours of HD programming on it, but that's what happens when I try to add 500GB of storage to it.I finally upgraded the external storage from 500GB to 1TB.I remember thinking about doing this last summer, except… more »

actually, pretty bad....So, while I was looking at the items for the 'lhaven' upgrade...I happened to type other things I might want, and came across a PCI PS/2 adapter.The new 'gumby' is legacy free...which was causing problems working under my… more »

After having had some time to lick my wounds from trying to upgrade 'lhaven'. I decided to take the plunge and try again. So, I went back on to eBay....and bought another 1GB stick of memory, from the same seller as before...so that I could take the… more »

Last Saturday, I woke to find lots of SMART dialogs on orac's screen. It wasn't happy about a lot of drives, I had expected to see one or two...the usual when it does its monthly mdadm checkarray....except it wasn't Sunday yet.I then saw that lots o… more »

...was less than successful. Back following the icepocalypse, I resurrected 'lhaven' by changing its motherboard. The new motherboard was an upgrade to the old one, but I wasn't taking advantage of any of it. But, in my mind I thought that someday I… more »

For sometime, I have thought that it was time to upgrade 'lhaven' to a more modern release of Linux.For the longest time, 'lhaven' has been running RedHat 7.3 (it was 7.2, but then I discovered Fedora Legacy...and they were providing patches for RedH… more »

'orac' is back, long live 'orac'. 'orac' had gone away on Thursday, it actually started in Wednesday.... For some unknown reason, I decided to start the upgrade of 'orac' from 8.04LTS to 10.04LTS. The upgrade seemed to go okay, but when I rebooted… more »

So, having returned from a morning trip to the UPS store to pick up some packages and with my knee bothering me more than yesterday...I didn't feel like going out again today. It seemed that there was a good moment do the upgrades I was planning to do.… more »

So, yesterday...I finally decided to buy the new external firewire drive for 'gumby'. Originally the plan was so that I would have retrospect express backups of the system drive, that I could boot from its restore CD and get that part back....with backu… more »

Ever since I learned about 5-bay port multiplier SATA enclosures, I've been wanting to get one to play with. And, when I acquired 'orac'...I sought out a port multiplier eSATA adapter to include in the build of the system. And, then waited for support… more »

So, I decided yesterday...in the midst of a tornado watch, etc. that it was time to pull the plug on the old Windows 2000 box known as 'gumby' and set up a new 'gumby' using the off-lease Lenovo Thinkcenter M55 that I got from TigerDirect when I got back… more »