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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Write a UDEV rule to automatically back up your USB thumb drive when its plugged in

Have you ever wanted to run an external program when your USB thumb drive is plugged in? For example, it could be handy to automatically back up its contents to the local hard drive. This will save your butt in case you do something foolish and delete everything on it. (I’ve done this). So here’s [...]

Mini-ITX Storage Appliance

So I haven’t posted in a while. But I am working on something that I hope takes off. It’s a NAS device that I’m building using a Mini-ITX board, a notebook computer CPU, notebook drives and memory and a very small Mini-ITX enclosure. This actually has a couple use cases – the NAS appliance, but [...]