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Balanced Rock Colardo Springs
This picture was taken May of 2025 in an area of Garden of the Gods called Balanced Rock, in Colorado Springs Colorado. -
Direct Attached Storage
Introduction
Greetings. I want to discuss Direct Attached Storage (DAS). What it is and why you might need it.
In my current situation I am living off a laptop, with a couple of DAS devices. Both devices cost about the same. However one is solid state and much faster. The other is mechanical and much larger.
Probably, the vast majority of people using computers may only need DAS, and not any sort of network solution.
Flash Drives have gotten very large lately. They sort of took over DAS from cdrom/dvrom once they hit 8 GB and bigger. And I know people who use flash drives, and SD cards, as many laptops have a SD slot built in.
There are external hard drives. TB of inexpensive storage. One just needs to chose between mechanical and solid state. Solid state is faster, but mechanical is still cheaper per GB.
Then there are a wide variety of options for using internal drives externally. USB to SATA, and multi bay drives, some even supporting hardware RAID. Though these options loose something in the form of portability.
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Using Batch (BAT) Files in Fallout 4
Fallout 4 Cheaters Guide
Prologue
Within the Fallout 4 game, at least the PC version, there is something called a Console. This is actually somewhat common on many PC games and it allows one to issue commands to the game, mainly to fix game issues, bugs, and things that make no sense (no one would use the console to cheat after all, right?).
However the problem with the console is you can only issue commands one at a time. In Fallout 4 you can get around this restriction with what is known as a Batch file, with a .bat extension. Essentially this file allows one to string together a series of commands. While the Fallout 4 console does not care about white space and comments, they can be used to make ones Batch files more legible to humans.
In this article we will go through how to create your own Batch files, and then how to run them form in game.
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LORAN Station Port Clarnece AK Summer 1983
LORAN Station Port Clarence Alaska in the summer of 1983. Located on the Arctic Circle 68 miles Northwest of Nome -
FreedomBox My Thoughts
FreedomBox My Thoughts
I posted a video going over my inital experiences with the FreedomBox server software based on Debian. I want to relate my thoughts after using FreedomBox in a Vert Manager VM for awhile
I first recommend reviewing the Video, as it provides the basis for my thoughts. I did test additional applications beyond waht is presented in the video.
FreedomBox My Thoughts
Note these applications are current as of MAY 2025. This is not a complete list, but an example of what is available
WIKIS: Feather Wiki, Ikiwiki, MediaWiki, TiddliWiki
File Sharing: Bepasty, SAMBA, Sharing, Deluge
Communications: Coturn, Ejabberd, Janus, JXSC, Matrix Synapse, Mumble, Quassel
VPN: Open VPN, Wire Guard
Notes: Infinote,
Photo Management: Zoph
RSS: Miniflux, RSS-Bridge
Games: MineTest
EMail: Postfix/Dovecot, RoundCube,
Web: Nextcloud, Gitweb
FreedomBox My Thoughts
Applications should be considered the server part of a server client setup, in that your computer is the client to a server.
All application are part of the Debian repositories. This is why Freedombox is referred to as pure Debian. Because of this one needs to be aware that most are not going to be the latest versions. This is generally not a problem, except where the application can use additional plugins form outside the Debian ecosystem.
Nextcloud and WordPress are examples where one needs to perform due diligence and make sure any modules, extensions, and plugins are compatible.
One should also be aware that if an application is updated via the web, the version will no longer match what is in the Debian repositories.
FreedomBox My Thoughts
In general applications are easy to install. However one must read the instructions carefully. Most of the installations are somewhat limited.
Some of this will seem obvious to experienced users. However the experinced user is not the target audience.
For example when installing SAMBA, one should really create the directories to share first. Otherwise one will need to backtrack after installing. While one can install SAMBA with a single click, achieving ones desired configuration involves a lot of jumping around between different pages, and having an understanding of how SAMBA manages shares.
Some applications are easier than others to install. My advice would be to do a manual install and setup on a test server before trying it with FreedomBox. In soime cases having an understanding of how an application works will help one understand and troubleshoot the setup on FrredomBox
That being said, if one understands the applications, Freedombox can be an effective way to get a server up and running quickly with minimal fuss.
