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All about my world, word and story. Of course including my bear, Polar.

Personal Life, Technology

DIY NAS – Purchasing and Assembly

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Purchasing the different components and parts of the NAS requires some thinking and deliberation.  While all parts should work as long as they’re paired correctly (e.g socket 1156 motherboard with a socket 1156 cpu), some parts are “better” than others. When I say “better” I mean they are more value for money or if they serve a particular purpose more effectively. I’ve spent quite some time researching on the different parts available locally before coming to the decision which encompasses of the parts listed in this post. Continue reading →

Personal Life, Technology

DIY NAS – Decision Making

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Long long ago, I’ve owned a Network-Attached Storage. One word, it was crap. It was cheap and the performance spoke for it. It was my first time dwelling into the world of network storage and being totally new, I opted for a budget solution. It was fun configuring the different settings (though few) and additionally, the access to a common hard drive (HDD) is convenient and useful. With that said, the transfer speed was horrendous and it became a fact that it was going to be a huge paperweight with performances like that. I must admit though that my knowledge of networking stuff and the network infrastructure of my house was not that much to be proud of then. Nevertheless, the performance was totally abysmal even for that point of time and it was not long after did I finally took it down to serve as a dust collector. A few years on and I’m back again setting up yet another NAS. Continue reading →

Personal Life, Slice of Life

Blessing in Disguise

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Blessing in disguise: something that at first seems bad, but later turns out to be beneficial. Many people believe that such occurrences are based on luck, on fate. Others take it as a gift from God, saying that it is all in God’s plan. Well, I wouldn’t dispute any of those beliefs but instead would love to propose another ideology, a concept that I strongly believe will benefit many.
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Personal Life, Slice of Life

If it ain’t Broke Don’t Fix it

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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, I fall into this particular idiom many a times in my life. From trying to add new features to my projects, website etc to trying to refine certain aspects of my work. I’ve wasted much time with the end product either being totally unusable or even worse than before. With that said, if we don’t look to improve and add things, how are we going to get the best out of something? I guess the real issue here is to identify whether that particular thing needs to be worked on rather than me wanting to work on it.

Of course it is going to be difficult the justify what falls into a “want” and what is a “need”. Continue reading →