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MyBook World: WDH1NC10000N

The MyBook World Edition is a great little device that runs embedded linux. I have a Model WDH1NC10000N. First Steps – Hacking MyBook World Edition. I have done the following: Installing SABNZBdplus ipkg install sabnzbdplus ipkg install unrar ipkg install unzip ipkg install py25-openssl I edited my folders to a directory under /DataVolume/Public, so the [...]

[ More ] December 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in gnu/linux, hardware, web |

New Android Tablets – Archos 101

So I jumped onboard the new Android tablet craze a couple months back with Augen’s Gentouch78. It was available at Kmart for short time and I thought it was quite fun for a little while. They have (had?) a nice forum. The community got it rooted pretty quickly, one guy LinCracker in particular doing a [...]

[ More ] November 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in hardware |

Opendipity or Western Digital MyBook World Edition Hacks

So it is a great thing when a piece of hardware you bought turns out to run Linux. Serendipity specifically related to electronics and ability to run FOSS, maybe opendipity? I had bought the Western Digital MyBook NAS device because it of the network attached nature, the 1 TB size, and what I thought was [...]

[ More ] October 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in gnu/linux, hardware, media, software |

New Theme! Digital Statement

Update: Theme is live! So if you have visited in the past few days, you will have noticed that the site seems all out of whack. Basically no css. I’m not exactly sure why this is, but I have been using Theme Enabler Preview to test drive a new theme. My old theme was _really_ [...]

[ More ] July 6th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in media, software, web |

StringUtils (Commons Lang 3.0-SNAPSHOT API)

StringUtils (Commons Lang 3.0-SNAPSHOT API). Have you wondered if there was a isNullorEmpty() function for strings in Java? It is not part of the JDK, but your project may already use the library. Check out org.apache.commons.lang for the StringUtils class. Quite useful.

[ More ] March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in software, web |