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Zotact IONITX-G-E Wake On USB with Ubuntu/XBMC (working)

gimpe » 07 May 2010 » In Uncategorized » No Comments

  1. Edit /etc/default/grub and add:
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="usbcore.autosuspend=-1"
  2. Run update-grub
  3. Edit /etc/crontab add:
    @reboot root echo -n USB0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
  4. Plug the USB Receiver into the lowest port under the PS/2 connector
  5. Reboot

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and XBMC 9.11.

SOURCE: http://www.minimyth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2524

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Acer EasyStore H340, the perfect FreeNAS box?

gimpe » 19 January 2010 » In Uncategorized » 2 Comments

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.

Easystore

I am curious to see if the Atom 230 is enough horsepower for ZFS, anybody tried it?

SOURCE: HappyBison.com

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

gimpe » 07 November 2009 » In Uncategorized » No Comments

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

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FreeNAS (embedded) iconv command

gimpe » 08 September 2009 » In Uncategorized » 1 Comment

To install iconv on a “data” parition:

export PKG_TMPDIR=/mnt/usb-data/temp
pkg_add -r iconv -P /mnt/usb-data/pkg

And execute this at boot time:
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/bin/iconv /bin/iconv

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Dell with a green PC

gimpe » 23 April 2008 » In Uncategorized » No Comments

rulesDell 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

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Eh daddy what are “inches”?

gimpe » 18 January 2008 » In Uncategorized » No Comments

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 diagonal size of TVs and computer screens. It took a long time to realize that it had no other application.”.

The son thanked his father and went back to play.

Damn standard units!

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