Recent Writing

Love poorly written, pointless, uninteresting wittering? This is the stuff for you.

looqs Meebox / "Novatech 500GB Home Storage NAS"

A few weekends ago I picked up the looqs Meebox from Novatech. I would link to the looqs site, but as of the time of writing it's currently unavailable because they've not renewed the domain (edit: this is now resolved).

It's hardly a first, but I did find some of the information out there a bit spread out. So, just incase I need to go through this again, I figured a 'blog post might be interesting - doubly so as I've not really got anything interesting from work, that I can blog about at the moment!

I've been playing around with CouchDB for a few nights, inspired by the work of Stuart Langridge and others at Ubuntu, and also J Chris Anderson.

I've been using Apache longer and across more platforms, than almost any other single item of software. However, as I'm going through the process of moving server provider I thought that I'd give LigHTTPD (lighty) a go. After all it's an interesting bit of code that's gaining some use.

If Xen is your thing, Cory von Wallenstein's relatively recent article on IPv6, Ipv6, and ARP on Xen might be of interest to you.