Strav's blog

I've been casting about for some time now looking for a better solution for my storage needs.  I've used raid5 in a number of situations, however, with the larger disks, Raid5 may not even be able to recover if only a single drive fails.  After my 4th… more »

The Jetway MiniTop is a very small form factor mini computer.  At the price points I was able to get it, it was a great buy and makes for a very competent MythTV frontend.  The fan can get a little loud but other than that minor issue, it's a fantastic… more »

Note that this is a work in progress.  The overall intent is to replace my poweredge 850/860 1450SC units with a single R900 unit and converting the old systems to virtual.  In order to do this I'm going to need to set up a SAN with fibre connections.… more »

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How To Root The Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7 [ROOT]Samsung Galaxy Tab A SM-T550/P550/P555/T350/P350/P355 download sm-t550_cf-autoroot.tar   more »

PS3 Jailbreak and CFW Tutorials on PS3HAX [TUT] How to install the latest 4.XX CFW's Official – Rebug 4.70.1 – Cobra 7.1 – Toolbox 2.02.04 – Apr. 2015   more »

Self contained *tiny* webserver for Windows.   https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/tinyweb/download.php more »

I had a nagging issue with Dropbox on one of my Windows 8 machines (and persisted through Windows 10 after upgrading).  For some reason, it worked initially then stopped working citing permissions issues as the reason.  I tried several fixes from web… more »