I’ll be gone for 2 weeks or so. I’m not dead and will still be alive. Gone for about the same situation. This time around, I’ll have this year’s end to look forward to.
[photo by Evan Leeson via flickr]
Why is Minecraft Fun?
Do you know what Minecraft is? If you don’t, shame on no one. Minecraft is a sandbox indie game that is played by millions and millions of people all over the world. In the game, you are able to place down different types of blocks to form and create anything you want. There are outstanding “art” pieces out there created solely using the game itself. From massive recreations of iconic movie scenes to insanely innovative use of the in-game scripting mechanics to create calculators and devices, Minecraft has seen people done the most incredible and creative stuff. So why is minecraft fun? Let two kids tell you why. Continue reading
Happy Chinese New Year
Just wanted to greet one and all a happy lunar new year (or chinese new year whichever way you want to call it). Ah, how time wastes away unknowingly when you’re not having fun. This festival last year for me was filled not only with polished images displayed on those large Houston screens for rent, but also with anxiety and fear for what it seems to some (especially for myself) the start of the rotting and wasting of youth and life away time of every Singaporean son. Continue reading
Finally Two
It started with a six. It then went to a five, four, three and now finally a two. Just two hundred plus more days and I’ll have my life back.
[image by: trazomfreak via flickr]
Without the Doing, Dreaming is Useless
Many of us have ideas and dreams. Many of us love to procastinate. Many of us fail to get started on our ideas and dreams, let alone completing any of them. Indeed, “without the doing, dreaming is useless”. Designer and illustrator Rilla Alexander talks about how to complete our ideas and dreams by actually doing it. Read on for the video.
DIY NAS – Adding Hard Drives and Setting Up Samba File Server
The next step to making your DIY NAS serve its purpose is to format and add those hard drives (HDD) to the system. You have them all plugged in the different SATA ports and so now it is time to make your operating system acknowledge them and make use of them. For this guide, I will only be going through the steps to format the HDD by itself and not make use of any RAIDs. RAID will be discussed in a later part. Once the drive is formatted and mounted, I will then go on to show you how you can set up your Samba File Server to start serving up those files to your network. Read on to continue the guide. All of this might be a tedious job to execute, especially with HDDs, which are delicate pieces of technologies. Such hindrances have led the storage industry into developing a new game changer: Hybrid Cloud Architecture: What Is It and Why Should You Care.
DIY NAS – Installing Ubuntu and OpenSSH (Remote Access)
Now that you’ve your hardware all picked up and assembled, it is time to put them to work. In this part, I will walk you through the initial installation of the Ubuntu Server OS itself and setting up OpenSSH for remote access. This will allow you to run the NAS “headless†(without a monitor) and place it at the location that you desire. With that said, read on for the walkthrough. Continue reading