Computers | Stumbling into Abundance

QuickPost: Android Blogs

Feb

2010

While I still intend on writing a longer feature-length post chronicling my adventures in Android apps, here is a quick listing of some of the blogs I’ve been reading since I jumped on the Android bandwagon. Android Central – Part of The Smartphone Experts network, the same folks who run CrackBerry.com, which was one of ...

Motorola Droid: First Impressions

Feb

2010

It seems that lately there’s been a rash of blog posts coming out of Richmond, Indiana about the not-so-new but still amazing Motorola Droid (or Droid by Motorola, if you want to follow their nomenclature.) As a new Droid owner myself I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring too. Last Friday my wife ...

Specifying a shared mount point in Ubuntu 1

Sep

2009

This post is part of my Upgraded Linux Backup series. One of the challenges I faced in configuring my new backup system on my Ubuntu Linux-based server was setting up my two external drives to mount at the same place in the filesystem. Why? Because the program I use to manage my backups, BackupPC, expects ...

Setting up LUKS encryption on USB drives 2

Sep

2009

This post is part of my Upgraded Linux Backup series. After obtaining (and assembling) my new backup hardware my first order of business was to get the external hard drives formatted and set up with drive encryption. Since I’m swapping out one drive to store off-site I wanted to use drive encryption just in case ...

New Backup Hardware: Drives, Enclosures, and Controller Card 2

Aug

2009

This post is part of my Upgraded Linux Backup series. Before I get to what my new backup hardware consists of, it might be helpful to know a bit about my existing (old) setup. My home network consists of a workstation, a laptop, a netbook, a seldom-used garage PC, and a multipurpose server. Among it’s ...