djmount – mount AV device as filesystem

djmount – mount AV device as filesystem. This small software can do amazing things 🙂 Using djmount you can access transparently all UPNP/DNLA from your network with your preferred media player. This program is also present in the Ubuntu repos! After installing djmount, open a terminal and type: mkdir -p Read more…

Time Machine on a network drive

Apple’s Time Machine software made it easy to set up incremental back-ups, with one exception: network drives (more formally called network-attached storage, or NAS). Time Machine only directly supports drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+J file system, and will eventually use all disk space on the drive. This page provides an Read more…

pigz and pbzip2 – it’s time to evolve!

Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities: – pigz – Parallel gzip – pbzip2 – Parallel bzip2 I’m using gzip and bzip2 from ages, and also multiple processors and multiple cores, so why don’t use multi-threading compression utilities? They are (obviously) binary compatible with the old Read more…