Re: NAS and media server

2011-03-06 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
Thanks to all for your feedback. I decided to forgo the NAS and purchased a Meerkat Ion NetTop from System76 instead. Price is right, it has gigabit Ethernet, and instead of serving media through the Xbox 360, I'll just hook it directly up to the home theater. Plus I like supporting these guys beca

Re: NAS and media server

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Woodward
On 03/06/2011 12:00 PM, discuss-requ...@blu.org wrote: > From: Rob Hasselbaum > Subject: NAS and media server > To: blug > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Any recommendations for a good (preferably Linux-based) NAS and media server > box for a home network? A

Comcast and IPv6

2011-03-06 Thread Matt Shields
IIRC there was a discussion a week or so ago about IPv6. It looks like Comcast is currently running a 6to4 Tunnel for their customers. I switched to a new router tonight (Netgear WNDR3700) which with a firmware update had IPv6 support. Not knowing what support Comcast had, I changed the setting

Ubuntu CPU scaling ignoring me more than my daughter does

2011-03-06 Thread David Kramer
'm trying to set the CPU speed to "full blast" on my 10.04 system, but it keeps degrading to slower speeds. I read up and stopped the ondemand service which is what I thought was changing it, but it still changes on me. I'm using "cpufreq-selector -c 0 -g performance -f 200 ; cpufreq-selector