Home NAS setup with Thecus N5550

(tl;dr: use latest rdup for backups, and thecus has problems with some drives, even from the compatibility list, if so, try updating firmware). So I recently saw a reasonably good deal on the Thecus N5550, a 5-bay hot-swappable NAS machine. This seemed as good a time as any to finally clean up my backups and Do Them Right. So the plan is to see how much the already excellent rdup has progressed (last time I used it was at version 0.

The Wiki Trap

The wiki trap Or: “Yo Dawg, I put a wiki in your wiki, so you can point to the wiki that points to your wiki.” A lot of projects use a wiki as a central repository for information about the project, which can be a blessing or a curse. I’ll refrain from naming the specific project and wiki, but condensed, I recently had a discussion that went a bit like this:

HTC Desire disable Sense

##Disabling Sense on the HTC Desire## I have been playing around with my HTC Desire today, and wanted to see what it was like without the Sense interface. If found several small tutorials online on how to disable (en re-enable!) it, which contained about the same steps, differed a little bit on how extensive those steps were described, and were all completely similar in that none of them actually worked.

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It’s here! It got in yesterday, making the total count 134 days. I see that by now the game has gotten cheaper, though the package was gracefully accompanied by no apologies at all. Thanks Play.

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##Play.com: 3-5 days delivery. Unless it’s longer. A lot longer.## Being a pretty regular customer at play.com, with around 60 orders placed over the last couple of years, I never really had to deal with their customer support. Once, quite some time ago, I had an order that didn’t arrive. I sent them an e-mail, and they sent another copy. Very nice. So a while ago a friend and I decided it was time that we go and tackle Resident Evil 5 together.