gambrinous with griffonage

The Husbear needs to practice step #5.

Today alone, I fixed his computer at the house (video card going bad... too much porn?), and his computer at the salon (several issues... I know better than to make other people administrators!).

How do people out there survive without a tech in the family? Maybe that's how businesses like Geek Squad stay functioning? I know there are definitely days I want to call someone to fix my stuff when it doesn't work.

Do you have a tech in your family, or do you have to call some stranger you don't know when your electronic toys... er... tools don't work?

Oh, and speaking as a tech, you could do a few other things while you're down there practicing step #5.

This post is more a note to myself, just in case I have to repeat this process again.

And it might be interesting to anyone who's geeky enough to understand it.

Sometime ago, I had purchased a Pogoplug. It's basically a network device that lets you plug in USB drives and access them from any computer.

It's a great idea, but the Pogoplug implementation of it is extremely poor. Extremely.

All access to any drives plugged into it goes through their servers, even when I just wanted to access files locally on my LAN.

Which makes it so fraking SLOW!

Which is not what I wanted. But that's what I get for buying it and not a real NAS in the first place.

So I started looking for OS replacement alternatives for the Pogoplug. And I found one!

I followed the instructions here and installed a flavor of linux on the Pogoplug.

And then I installed samba.

The only problem I noticed with it was that the LED on the front of it continually blinked. Which I fixed by editing /etc/rc.local. Because the model I have is slightly different that what the main install distro has (currently), I had to use use this path instead: /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/.

A little more info.

And since I'm a n00b at *nix, and I don't really know samba at all, I had to reference help here and here.

And now everything is up and running fine. And FAST! And I can now see my porn from any computing device in the house.