Running Drupal 6.13 now, enjoy! and if you use Drupal, upgrade as well! :)

This is my band of the month page, as I am quite a music freak.

• 2007:
  • January: Dry Cell (especially "So Long Ago")
  • February: Deep Blue Somthing (especially "Halo")
  • March: DieCast (especially "Hourglass", "Fade Away")
  • April: Snow Patrol (especially "Chasing Cars", "All I Have")
  • May: Brett Dennen (especially "Ain`t No Reason" as played on Scrubs and House)
  • June: Breaking Benjamin (especially "The Diary Of Jane" and "Breath")
  • July: Sum41 - Go Chuck Yourself (live Sum41 is outstanding!)
  • August: Skillet - Comatose
  • September: Heideroosjes - Sinema
  • October: Dido ( relaxing ... )
  • November: Sigur Rós - Hvarf-Heim
  • December: Sum41 - Underclass Hero

• 2008:
  • January: Jimmy Eat World (especially "Big Casino")
  • February: Never Been Famous (especially "Joker")
  • March: Die Toten Hosen (especially "Madleine")
  • April: Die Ärzte (especially "Junge")
  • May: Linkin Park (especially "Valentine")
  • June: Boy Sets Fire (especially "My Life In a Knife Trade")
  • July: In Flames (especially "Reflect The Storm")
  • August: Default (especially "It Only Hurts")
  • September: Gavin Rossdale
  • October: Schock (especially "Allein")
  • November: Unheilig (especially "An Deiner Seite")
  • December: Oomph! (especially "Kontrollverlust")

• 2009:
  • January: Billy Talent (especially "This Suffering")
  • February: 3 Doors Down (especially "Let Me Be Myself")
  • March: Liquido (especially "Valentine")
  • April: Hollywood Undead (especially "Sell Your Soul")
  • May: The Fray (especially "How To Safe A Life")
  • June: Papa Roach (especially "Lifeline")
  • July: Zeraphine (especially "Be My Rain")

we are running Drupal 6.9 now!

Hi folks,

found a nice article about this topic, and want to let you know, check it:

http://wtanaka.com/drupal/convert-theme-6

and yes, it is not too hard, just did convert the wow theme for my friens from FOX.

Running on Drupal 6.3 now, enjoy!

well, this is pretty neat and its legal.

Click here

by the way, here are the pictures of my Thecus 5200 Pro opened and worked through.

After a while I finally got my hand on the 44 pin IDE male to male adapter and could put Debian on my Thecus, with serial redirection it was actually quite trivial to get everything up and running. As most people suggest, I installed everything on a flash chip on another computer and then moved it to the Thecus. Besides some issues with udev ( my nics got renamed, of course, DOH! ) everything was working smoothly. With serial access I changed the nics and then I was able to put Apache, SSH, etc. on the box and access it.

The box has 2x Intel 1 gbit eth interfaces and one of those is connected directly to a 4 port gbit switch. So far I can say the Thecus is quite decent, cooling, casing, etc. looks / seem very well done - the firmware is already quite nice, but still needs some improvements. You need to reboot for an IP change for example, or if DHCP fails, some services seem to act weird, even though DHCP is only possible / done on the WAN interface. Generally is working well and there is quite a decent list of modules to extend the functionallity.

What is a bit annoying: the front display. There is not much documentation and the one avaiable doesn´t seem to cover all the things. I suppose I have to play around with strace on the off shelf firmware and see how one could put data on it. Obviously its done via a serial connection, but that ends in a ATMEL controller and from there it goes parallel to the display or well, that is what it looks like. Once I know more, I will post again here about that.

And one more: what is a bit of a shame though, is that the chip of the Thecus has 8 SATA ports and only 5 are actually useable, I suppose sooner or later there will be even a bigger Thecus with more HDDs. Yeah, Cebit is coming up, maybe they have a Joker somewhere.

after trying out the beta and RC´s here a bit, I have put now the final drupal v.6.0 online here.

Enjoy! you can grab drupal yourself @ www.drupal.org - quite a neat CMS.

Hello there,

well after selling around 10 of those to customers, I finally got a look into the insides of the thing. The Thecus 5200 Pro is basically a "normal" computer: it has a CPU, RAM, HDD ( 64/128MB Flash drive ) and most other components, it misses a graphics card though.

My plan for it, so far is to put Debian on the box, which is not hard at all:
just get another 44pin flash thingy ( e.g. Transcend 1024MB IDE Flash Modul IDE 44pin horizontal bulk, available on Amazon ), put that one into a another computer, install Debian on it and put it right back into your Thecus. That´s about it. You really do not have to replace the flash modul, but its nice to keep the original as it was, so in case something wents bad you have the original.

Opening the box is quite easy too, after you have unscrewed the back of the Thecus and removed it ( be sure to unplug the cooler ) you can move the hood a bit forward and after that you can just lift it off.

I will upload some pictures to my gallery later so you can take a look.

Hi there,

I have made another tutorial for my kb.gosi.at, this time its about transparent http caching with squid.
Check it out here.