Book Comparison Website
Usually, I just order books from Amazon without checking anywhere else, but it’s worth checking on Book Butler as Amazon aren’t necessarily the cheapest.
Archive for August, 2008
Totally Free Burner
I’ve just found a great small new free piece of software : Totally Free Burner. This software burns audio, video, data, and ISO CDs and DVDs in just a few clicks. Great if you don’t need the bloat of Nero or Roxio etc.
Hard Drive for QNAP TS-101
Unfortunately, the QNAP Compatibility List doesn’t have any Samsung drives listed as being tested, so I’ve had to try another brand in my TS-101.
I’ve opted for a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 500-GB Hard Drive which seems to get good reviews.
Hopefully it will support spin-down – I’ll report more when I’ve tried it.
QNAP TS-101 Telnet Access
The latest firmware (2.3.0 Build 080618) for the QNAP TS-101 has telnet enabled by default.
To access the device, use something like PuTTY to connect via port 13131. The user name is “administrator”, and the password is the administrator that you set via the QNAP web interface.
QNAP TS-101 Introduction
I’ve just received my new I’ve just acquired a QNAP TS-101 from ebay. It’s main features are: -
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- File Server (Supporting Windows and Network file sharing)
- TwonkyMedia software that supports UPnP and DLNA
- Supports SATA Drives
- BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP Download Manager
- Mirrors data to external USB or eSATA hard drive..
- Remove backup over internet/local network to another device
- Web Server (with PHP and SQLite)
- Printer Server (supports USB printers)
- FTP Server
- Telnet Access
I’m looking forward to looking at this device more closely….
Changing Speedtouch 585 to Bridged Mode
I have internet access (24 Meg ADSL) from Be that comes with a free Speedtouch 585 Wireless Modem/Router (aka BeBox). Unfortunately, while it’s great for connecting via ADSL2+, it’s not that good at anything else.
I much prefer my Linksys WRT54GL for general network stuff, running Tomato firmware.
All is not lost – it’s fairly easy to set the BeBox to work in “Bridged mode”: -
Log onto the Bebox (http://192.168.1.254) and change the configuration to be “Multi IP 4 Data ports”.
On the WRT54GL, in the WAN/Internet section, change to “Static” and enter the Be settings into “Static WAN IP address”, “Wan NetMask” and “Gateway IP address”.
You then need to connect the WRT54GL Wan port to the BeBox.
This is it. Unfortunately you lose the ability to log onto the BeBox to check ADSL status etc. To fix this, in Tomato, go to “Administration / Scripts”
Add this to “WAN Up”: -
ip addr add 192.168.1.1/24 dev vlan1 brd +
and this to “Firewall”: -
/usr/sbin/iptables -I POSTROUTING -t nat -o vlan1 -d 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
You should now be able to access your BeBox by going to http://192.168.1.254
(This is all assuming that your local network is 192.168.0.* like mine is)
