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Acer Aspire One 150 ZG5 died without warning

February 14, 2009

My AAO 150 ZG5 netbook/UMPC died this morning without warning. It was working in normal condition last night while I was working and this morning, every effort to turn it on, when turned the power supply on the power light is turning green, but the hard drive activity indicator from the front panel below the [...]

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Truecrypting my Acer Aspire One ZG5

January 17, 2009

I manage to encrypt my Acer Aspire One ZG5 with Truecrypt and I choose the wipe method the fastest but still the encryption takes a little more than 2 hours. Since there was no way to burn the truecrypt rescue recovery disk iso file, I find a noble way of verify it using this method.
I [...]

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Installing FreeNAS on my old P4 PC

January 16, 2009

I decided to convert my old Pentium 4 PC into a network-attached storage (NAS) for my movies and music collection. I choose FreeNAS, a free open source application, for its simplicity and ease of use (not the setup). My PC specs for this home setup was pretty fast for a NAS, it has 512 [...]

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