Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Lessons Learned from a new Synology NAS
I rencently proceeded to solve a problem I was observing more and more from my sturdy Synology DS413j (7-year old after all): I ran out of space and the old DS413j has no longer any extension possibility after the four 4TB disks in SHR mode (10.41TB accessible). So, I just bought a shining new (and…
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Pi to one MILLION decimal places
One million useless figures The “most useless page” of this web site shows the first million decimal figures of PI (Do you remember your math? PI=3.14, more or less). All this is a kind of « virtual partnership » with French scientific magazine La Recherche whose December 2005 issue is titled : « Pi, le maître nombre » (Pi, the Master number). There,…
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Test your firewall
Shields up! Shields up! will allow you to test the security of your Internet conection. If you have a firerwall, you will know if it is correctyl configured. If you don’t, you will know what risks you are taking. I invite you to visit the rest of the web site, too. It covers security aspects linked…
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Recover lost files on CD or DVD
When your CD is dying… The observation Updated information (Jan-06):Now, Kurt Gerecke, an expert from IBM Germany, speaks up and tells the awful truth on ComputerWorld: Burned CD and DVD: limited life span around 2-5 years.But he also considers that hard disc drives are no better and advises you to use magnetic tapes. CD-ROM are annonced as…
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My own preferred photos: Wild focus
I know that publishing here on a more or less regular basis my new photos from my own adventures in the wild world is appreciated by some. But I am also asked to come back to older photos or to highlight some of the pictures I prefer. So, I decided to create a kind of…
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Raspberry Pi as a local DNS/DHCP server
For a local network supporting a small company or an Internet-active family, it is always possible to rely totally on an Internet Service Provider (ISP) which will provide basic network services straight from the Internet box/router (fibre or ADSL). But, if – like me – you want to have more flexibility, you’d prefer to setup…