The Daily Nerdism

Blogging, the third

Or “Back to static content”.

This is still some kind of dump for things I want to document. I will do this whenever I can imagine some public interest in it.

My first approach to blogging used some hand written tool called PyCo. After havin some fun with this hand-crafted solution, I don’t want to maintain this cruft anymore and switched to wordpress.

Now, I’m following the trends again (quite late, I know) switch to hugo. Hugo is a static side generator alowing me to leverage some git infrastructure and CI facilities which PyCo was not aware of. But in the end, I’m back where I started.

Custom Linux on QNAP TS-673

Long long time ago… I installed a custom linux on my Lenovo EMC px6-300d. This machine served its purpose for almost 5 years. But now it’s somewhat aged and I feel like it is time to move on.

My new System, a QNAP TS-673 is equipped with a AMD64 based CPU, 32GB of RAM, 6 HDD Bays and 4x GBE. But as usual, I’m not happy with the shipped software and want to have full control on the system without all that cloud-stuff and online-madness.

Linux on Lenovo-EMC px6-300d

Today I received my new storage solution / NAS / file server for my living room: a Lenovo EMC px6-300d.

After booting it the first time, it comes up with a web interface. The interface looks nice but is sprinkled with non-free third-party apps like backup solutions, cloud storage and CCTV management.

The tech spec shows, that the main board is a Intel Atom on and the running OS is Linux-Based. Therefore I opened the case (just 3 normal screws) and removed the main board (4 normal screws).