Use your DNS-323 as a media server?  Want to stream all your videos to your TV?  Cheaply?

Enter xbox media centre.  The little piece of software I used to love on my old black brick original xbox (modded, of course).  But not just for xbox anymore!  Cheap nettops are here, paving the way for super affordable […]

I’ve had my poor man’s apple time capsule running for a little over six months now, and recently Time Machine started spewing errors.
I tried running a Disk Utility “repair” on the affected volume to no avail.  Something about an “invalid sibling link”.
Apparently, it doesn’t like it when you close your Macbook’s lid too many times […]

Reader Kolonel2 to the rescue with a much-requested feature — A script that stops Transmission seeding once it’s seeded to 100%.  Sharing is caring, people!

Hey all… Just wanted to write a quick post asking if anyone else has had issues with firmware 1.06 not loading the ffp modules after a reboot?  I’m not sure if it’s 1.06 or if I broke something while tinkering, but I simply cannot get the 323 to pick up the fun_plug on the reboot.  […]

Hey kids. So in my first post I alluded to the fact that I was going to enable the USB port on the back of the NAS for other stuff. Shame on me for not actually having gotten around to it until now.
We’re going to load a USB driver in the 323’s linux […]

Sounds like the big thing everyone is concerned with is the high rate of failure with Seagate’s 1-1.5TB drives.  There’s a firmware update available, and it will probably be a good idea to upgrade the drive firmware if you are affected.  Actually updating the firmware from two drives plugged into my 323 will be a […]

Just wanted to report that my upgrade to 1.06 was a success.  Mostly.
I downloaded the 1.06 firmware update from D-Link’s support site, unzipped the file, and then pointed the 323 web interface to it.  It flashed successfully, and everything booted up without issue.
However, I’d been having minor problems with the embedded iTunes server (mt-daapd) not […]

Hey kids, so remember my original post on dns-323 hacking?  Well I’m back at it.  In Part 1 I decided not to use RAID 1 mirroring for a couple of reasons (see section 2 — RAID or no RAID?).  Instead, what I’m doing for redundancy is selectively backing up a set of “important” data from […]

Since getting my terabyte DNS-323 NAS up and running, Rogers has been kind enough to let me know I’m way over my 60gb/month bandwidth cap.  Imagine that!  ha ha.
So I decided to upgrade the firmware on my router so I can more effectively track my monthly bandwidth usage.  I had been using the hyperwrt+tofu firmware […]

Dr. Michael Geist writes that the Ontario Legislature just passed Bill-85.  HUH?  How come this is so media-silent?
Didn’t anyone stop to take clues from the US about the broadly-publicized RFID password vulnerabilities?  As a security guy, I’m a little shocked.  And a lot appalled.