Kuro trouble and kuro fixes
Last week as I tried to back up my data, I came across a hitch: Kurobox doesn't support long filenames. That meant that I'd have to rename a lot of my files, and that wasn't acceptable by any means. I don't see much logic in renaming all of my files because a back up method doesn't support the names -- expecially when there are ways to make the back up device support them.
So there I went, off to figure out how to get netatalk, the technology that supports Mac OS Xs' longer file names, working properly on the kurobox. I came across a disk image made by alanc
After a long Kurobox Hiatus
I've largley neglected the Kurobox since it's been up and running. I had even just shut it off for a while. And it's not from lack of interest, it's from lack of real time. So today, as I wait to go over to my sister in law's for dinner, I've decided to at least get my files backed up. It has been a long time since I've done a thorough back-up, and I'm taking all my stuff, and moving copies to Kuro and burning an extra copy to disk so that my inner-geek is satisfied.
KuroBox has arrived!
It wasn't another love letter after all, the FedEx guy brought me the Kurobox I had ordered. Most excellent. What is a Kurobox? It's a Network Storage box that holds a hard drive. It has a 200MHz PPC processor, 64Mb of RAM, and 4MB of Flash memory. It contains an embedded Linux OS.
What does it do? Well, it stores files. You can mount it as a volume from your Mac, or you can connect to it via ftp. You can telnet into the box to boss it around. Since it runs on Linux, it can also run the popular Apache webserver, and mySQL.