You know, I really hate updates. What I really hate is how the Linux world thinks a major (&)(&*ing change should go in a minor update. Not long ago I wrote this post on getting Manjaro to work with NAS and all was beautiful. Manjaro worked much like other mainstream Linux distros when it came to NAS. Well we can’t have that! One of the more annoying things about Manjaro KDE and NAS is the … Manjaro KDE and NASRead more
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How to Make Manjaro 20.2 work with NAS
You installed Manjaro because you wanted a modern Linux without Ubuntu bloat. Now you can’t find your NAS.
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How to Make Ubuntu 20.04 Work with Buffalo NAS
We’ve all been there. You install a new Ubuntu release and sh*t doesn’t work. It’s really frustrating when it is sh*t that has worked for years. Well, here is how you fix it. Buffalo (and I suspect some other brands) are horribly behind when it comes to network standards and security. More importantly they never seem to push updates out for these things. I guess that is why they are cheap. What screwed you in … How to Make Ubuntu 20.04 Work with Buffalo NASRead more
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Whole Farm Wifi 2015
It has been quite a while since I wrote the original article about this topic. Much of the original equipment probably isn’t even on the market anymore. I had some good years out of that equipment, but have slowly been upgrading. Most of the computers I have purchased recently have had Gigabit bandwidth network ports and most of the portable devices have had speedier wireless N capabilities. At one point I found a sweet deal … Whole Farm Wifi 2015Read more