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I heard about OpenGoo 7, a webapplication which you can host at your own server and basically let’s you do the “office” things: contacts, todo, documents, spreadsheets, calender, task, links, and so on.
Although it probably lacks a lot of features this might be handy to install in our household. I really like to have all my data within my own household and I believe distributed everything is basically the way to go.
The main problem are the memory demands, it requires really some MB’s while my Synology CS 407 is already running uhm… a lot.
But let’s try anyway.
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- Download the zip file from the SourceForge site - Just copy to your /web directory - Open the installation page by just typing in the url of the place you copied it to (e.g. http://cubestation/doc) - You get a nice message and have to click next |
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- The next page warns you about “simplexml extension is not installed” - According to Synology however this extension is not available yet in their default php release (no libxslt.so). However I read about some “hack” : “install a second apache with a full enabled PHP —> ipkg install php-apache”. Some questions pop in my mind now… ah…. what the heck. |
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CubeStation> ipkg list php* |
ipkg list php* hmmm… CubeStation> ipkg install php-apache |
| 1) vi /opt/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(in /opt/lib/php/extensions is now the needed xsl.so) (also change all libexec/bla.so to /opt/libexec/…) Then edited the portnumber to 81 and changed the default webpath. 2) run /opt/sbin/httpd –k start |
and we are running another instance on port 81:
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Where do you store your digital photo’s?
Do you burn them to cd or dvd? These media are doomed to fail one time or another.
Do you you store them on a usb disk or a nas? More safe but at one point or another even these harddisks will fail.
Do you run your nas in RAID? If anything goes wrong “fire” you will lose all photos anyway
So you can either copy all of the digital photos regularly to a harddisk which you place at your relatives which live far far away or you store your digital pics at a 3rd party via an upload mechanism.
There are countless providers for storing your digital pictures, to name a few: www.flickr.com , www.zoomr.com 0, www.fotki.com 1, www.picasa.com , www.fotolog.com 7, www.smugmug.com , etc… etc… millions of possible options. Some have unlimited storage for free, other charge either for storage space (like Google) or bandwidth. It’s even hard to find a social 2.0 site these days which doesn’t offer free photo storage…
I have stored many of my pics at Picasa, Flickr (pro), and quite a set of other sites but I have changed my mind a while ago. Since digital pics are such a personal asset I want to have complete control over them. I also want to use FTP to upload them automatically (which is not possible with flickr or picasa) to my hosting party and sync the collection with the collection stored on my NAS. On top of that physical layer I have a simple web interface (ZEN Photo) which allows users to view photo’s. (and, since the repository is fixed, can be replaced by any other web photo package).
In this way I can work locally on my NAS and transparently a complete synchronized backup is kept at my own webhosting company of which I have complete control.
I keep all of my photo’s on my NAS on the /photo share. Under this share I have directories named “2006”, “2007, “2008”, …
Many NAS boxes offer NSLU2 4 packages to be installed. So I installed SCREEN and LSFTP . With those two packages it is easy to run an unattended synchronization of my photo directories.
I wrote this simple script (sync2008.sh):
#!/bin/ash
SOURCE=/volume1/photo/2008
BACKUPDIR=/domains/leau.net/html/gallery/albums
lftp -u USERNAME,PASSWORD ftp.ftpserver.com << EOF
mirror -R -n -I *.jpg -I *.JPG -X Collage/ -X ‘whatever/’ -X .piccache/ -X .recent/ -X Originals/ -X *.Db -X ‘@eaDir/’ $SOURCE $BACKUPDIR/
quit
which mirrors, in this case, the 2008 photo directory with my online ftp server. As you can see it only includes JPG’s and does not mirror the directory “whatever”, it does not mirror picasa directories (“piccache”, “.recent”, “Orginals”’), it does not mirror Irfanview stuff “.Db” and it does not mirror my synology photo thumbs “@eaDir ”.
Now I can just run “screen sync2008.sh” and close my terminal connection to the box and it will happily sync my photo collection via the NAS box and automatically close when it finishes.
Ofcourse it is easy to schedule also, so that, completely unattended, there is always a copy of my digital pics online.
(August 18, 2008) Synology® Inc. today announced the formal release of its 4-bay Disk Station model, the ultra-high performance yet energy-saving DS408. The DS408 is equipped with an 800 MHz CPU and 512MB RAM, and packed with the brand new rich-featured Synology Disk Station Manager 2.0 software.
"Targeting a wide range of users from professional consumers (prosumers) to corporate," commented by Edward Lin, Marketing Director of Synology, "the DS408 has the qualification to answer requests from any user demanding green NAS devices along with large capacity, high performance, and practical applications."
High speed data transmission and computing ability are no stranger to Synology products. "Accumulating our past experiences in NAS development, the DS408 reaches the goal of 55+ MB/sec in RAID 5 reading and 33+ MB/sec in RAID 5 writing," said Derren Lu, Software Development Director of Synology.
"Moreover, such high efficiency of a NAS appliance goes together with energy saving", added Edward Lin. "Compared with an average PC found on the current market, instead of burning an outrageous 200W, DS408 only calls for a relatively low power consumption of approximately 40W under normal operation with four hard drives installed."
Practicing Synology’s emphasis on energy saving, the DS408 supports schedule power on-and-off based on individual preferences. Total power consumption drops to null when appliance stays in off-mode condition. All results are to reify Synology’s responsibility as a global citizen.
The Web 2.0 technology posits DS408 out of the ordinary and makes it one of a kind in the contemporary NAS market field. By adopting the AJAX technology, DS408 carries responsive interfaces such as wizards, drag & drop, and quick-search, promoting further intimacy and interaction with its users.
Sparing the annoying process of manual backup, the DS408 benefits users from multiple backup alternatives: Encrypted Network Backup – designed for data backup between DS408 and other Synology NAS products or any rsync-compatible servers; Local Backup – data backup from DS408 to external hard drives via USB attachment; and Desktop Backup – a simple backup method by using Data Replicator 3.
Additional noteworthy features obtainable from the Synology Disk Station Manager 2.0 that comes with the DS408 include: Surveillance Station, which supports more than 65 wired and wireless IP cameras of different brands such as Axis, Panasonic, D-Link, Linksys, LevelOne, and TRENDnet; Web Station that enables corporations to host their website with most updated Apache and PHP; Network Recycle Bin which serves as a safety net for rescuing unintentionally deleted files, as well as Telnet and SSH being officially integrated to the management interfaces – all of these contribute to the groundbreaking NAS experience one may discover on DS408.
Availability
The DS408 is now shipping.
(August 18, 2008) Synology® today released the new video tutorial "How to Set Up a Web Site" on its official website. The Synology Web Station allows users to easily build and manage their own blog or website on the Internet. With the support of PHP and MySQL, users can develop a dynamic data-base driven website by themselves, or install a variety of open-sourced programs on their Synology NAS server. Also, the Virtual Host function is included in the next official firmware release (Beta program is available now). Users will be able to host multiple web sites on one Synology NAS server.
In this new video tutorial "How to Set Up a Web Site", users will learn how to:
1. Publish a web site to the Internet.
2. Host a dynamic MySQL database-driven web site.
3. Host multiple web sites on one Synology NAS server by using Virtual Host.
The tutorial is available in English.
For more information, please visit http://www.synology.com/enu/products/tutorial/index.php .
Retrevo offers hundreds of thousands of manuals, which makes it a good spot to pick up the digital manuals for some of the devices we have in our household and place them in our household wiki.
We have made a seperate section in our household wiki for all our devices and assets which includes helpdesk, manuals, history, costs, maintenance and more. (We are now busy setting up the garden section of the wiki which contains the names and maintenance needed for all the plants in the our garden).
Anyway, this is a great resource for e.g. finding the manual for my x year old device y (or at least finding a manual without having to scan it in myself).
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Synology® Released Disk Station Manager 2.0 June Beta Which Features Extra Data Protection-Network Recycle Bin, and Download Enhancements (May 29, 2008) Synology® today released the Disk Station Manager 2.0 June beta, featuring extra data protection, download enhancements and performance improvement, AFP performance improvement, extra IP camera models support, and others. "There are chances that we delete files accidentally," said Edward Lin, marketing director of Synology, "we are delighted to provide users with an extra protection to their data by adding the Network Recycle Bin feature so they don’t have to worry about deleting files unintentionally." The Network Recycle Bin works for all CIFS connections. The shared-folder level design ensures all deleted files are recoverable from the recycle bin folder. All deleted files are kept in their original file structure to offer an easy-to-search environment. The Download Station enhancements include DHT support, 25% performance increase, BT encryption support, and flexible seeding rule settings. "The download performance enhancements imply a shorter time needed to download the same files," commented Rosiel Lee, product manager of the Synology Disk Station Manager 2.0, "this pushes the Green idea we have always kept in mind another step forward." The DHT support allows trackerless torrents download. "It means you do not need to connect to a tracker in order to download, but connect to a distributed DHT Network to find other peers," explained Allen Kao, RD manager of Synology. "The upgraded Download Station also supports both TCP and UDP trackers, and Peer Exchange Protocol, all are for increasing the ability to find more peers when downloading." In addition, flexible seeding options are also available in this beta. The new beta includes the following improvements:
Availability The beta is now available at http://beta.synology.com
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I thought I’d give you a little roundup on how we manage the digital photographs taken in our household, maybe it is interesting for you. It’s also a good opportunity to link all my gadget theme pages!
- pics and movies are retrieved from our camera’s (e.g. Nikon 8800 ) to both my computer(s) and the computer of my wife via usb or pcmcia memory card interface
- they are then stored on the Synology NAS in the /photo share (2 terabyte), the NAS run in RAID so even if a harddisk fails I just put a new HD in
- my wife can work on her computer and use Google Picasa, order prints via Picasa, make web albums via Picasa and e-mail new pics via Picasa.
- I can use my own tooling on the same /photo’s and e.g. upload some to Flickr or my weblog or add them to my PDA .
- Via the XBox or the KISS Player , the photo collection is displayable on our TV, with all kinds of options (random image from the past years photoshow is fun with some music on the X-Box when visitors are coming by to run in the background)
- On the NAS I run the automated FTP script to synchronize with my hosting account at MediaTemple. This happens automatically overnight so even when we accidentally press DELETE on a gallery or the complete city is nuked, ALL photographs ever taken since 2002 are stored safely there
- And while we have it as storage location on the MediaTemple account we have also added a Zen-Photo web frontend so that externals can view the photo galleries (password protected) e.g. grandmother wants to see the new pics of Maarten and the bbq .
- Via the Zen Photo WordPress plugin my wife and me can select pictures from the Zen Photo album to add them to e.g. the weblog of Maarten so that we don’t have to duplicate content and can link directly to galleries.
Any comments/suggestions?
New DokuWiki Release [splitbrain.org]
Lets upgrade!