dataDyne - 9.5TB network storage tank

The 250gb hard drive in my MacBook just isn’t enough anymore, so I bought some equipment to set up a NAS (Network Attached Storage). The equipment I bought:

• 4x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F2EG HD154UI 1.5TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5” Internal Hard Drive
• 1x TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR 10/ 100/ 1000/ 2000Mbps PCI Copper Gigabit Network Adapter
• 1x SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card
• 1x Sunbeam PSU-H680-REV-US-BL 680W ATX 12V 2.0 Power Supply

I also bought a 4gb CF card, and a CF to IDE adaptor, because i had originally planned on using freeNAS as the operating system, and free up space in the case (by not needing a hard drive to install the operating system on). But i decided to go with Ubuntu instead, and ditch the CF card route. I chose Ubuntu because of limitations in the software raid implementation in freeNAS. FreeNAS doesn’t have the ability to grow an existing RAID, so if down the line i wanted to add another hard drive, freeNAS wouldn’t allow it, but Ubuntu would.

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I configured the prompt to have a more custom feel on my servers, by adding the following line to my ~/.bashrc file.

Mike originally gave me the code, I just modified it to change the colors and the layout, check out his site at http://lightsandshapes.com

To use this prompt design, add this line to your ~/.bashrc file.

PS1='\[\]\u\[\]@\[\][\h]\[\]:\[\]\w/\[\]\$\[\] '

Ampache Now Playing at wordpress.net

Description

The Ampache Now Playing (Wordpress Plugin) is a plugin for Wordpress that displays the current song playing on your Ampache server.

Features

This module can pull information about the current playing song from an Ampache server via it’s RSS feed, and display it as a widget. It can pull the song title, album, and artist, the date the song was played, and from what user agent the song is being streamed to (ie, ampache web interface, iphone, android, etc.).

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Ampache Now Playing at launchpad.net

Description

The Ampache Now Playing (Drupal Module) is, like the name suggests, a module for Drupal that displays the current song playing on your Ampache server.

Features

This module can pull information about the current playing song from an Ampache server via it’s RSS feed, and display it in a block. It can pull the song title, album, and artist, the date the song was played, and from what user agent the song is being streamed to (ie, ampache web interface, iphone, android, etc.).

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Check out the new video from The Reign of Kindo, “Thrill of the Fall”.

You should check them out at myspace! http://myspace.com/thereignofkindo And check out the new album on amazon

I snapped this picture with my iPhone 3Gs. It wasn’t quite good enough to submit to gizmodo like my friend over at lightsandshapes.com though. I was actually surprised at the quality of this shot taken with my phone, I just wish there was a way to adjust the shutter speed with the iPhone! maybe with the iPhone 5…

I took this shot with my iPhone 3GS on the 4th. This was right before the sun went down and the fireworks started. I’m still surprised everytime I take a picture with my phone that the quality is as high a it is.

The Reign of Kindo is releasing their new album, “This is what happens”, early august of this year. Check out samples on Amazon of their upcoming album! It sounds awesome so far. I probably won’t be in Buffalo for the release show so i’m going to just have to preorder my album and hope that it gets here in time for the show. Check them out!

Check out my friend over at Lights and Shapes He just got a Nikon D90 camera and is gonna be posting a lot of pictures with it.

I found a problem with Ampache when retrieving the track numbers for m4a files. I found a quick hack here that can fix this problem, and allow Ampache to get the actual track number for each song, rather than saying that every song has a track number of 0. http://ampache.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1348

For those who just want the code, you have to edit {ampachewebdir}/lib/class/vainfo.php. Open this file, and find the get_info() function, and paste this at the bottom above the line unset($this->_raw);.

if($this->tags['quicktime']['track']==0) {
	$this->tags['quicktime']['track']=exec('faad -i '.escapeshellarg($this->filename).' 2>&1 |grep track: |cut "-d " -f2',$retval);
}