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Acer EasyStore H340, the perfect FreeNAS box?

The Acer EasyStore H340 comes with 1 x 1TB HDD and room for three more drives (SATA-II). A low power Atom 230, 2 GB of Ram and an internal 256M flash storage to install FreeNAS 64 bits. This comes in a nice 7.9″ (200mm) W x 7.1″ (180mm) D x 8.3″ (212mm) H casing.

I am [...]

A PHP script to start a torrent and download it where the .torrent was located using Transmission JSON-RPC

I wrote this script because I never found a Transmission remote GUI that permits to start downloading a torrent in a specific directory.

FreeNAS (embedded) iconv command

To install iconv on a “data” parition:
[cci]export PKG_TMPDIR=/mnt/usb-data/temp
pkg_add -r iconv -P /mnt/usb-data/pkg[/cci]
And execute this at boot time:
[cci]ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/bin/iconv /bin/iconv[/cci]

Dell with a green PC

Dell is working on their smallest and greenest desktop PC (81% smaller and 70% less enegy-consuming). No name yet only this rendered preview. It should also be shipped in recycled and recyclable packaging.  !
Source: GIZMODO

Eh daddy what are “inches”?

In a not so far future, a son goes to see his dad and ask him: “Eh daddy what are “inches”?”. The father think for a minute or two and answer him: “You know my son, the “inches” are an old measurement system, an inch measure 25.4 mm, and it was invented to measure the [...]

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