Upgrades (Round 2) Part 2

I upgraded the sound card for Melty, since I thought that's what was causing an audible choppiness every now and then... and turns out it's Sound Blaster's surround engine just failing for that particular case...

Anyway, the new sound card isn't compatible in openSUSE, so I made a switch box to switch between the sound card and the onboard audio.



I might have returned the card had I known it was the surround engine at fault... Though there's a fun piece to the sound card where it can modify your voice to sound much different, which works pretty well, and in most cases is quite uncanny.

Network Attached Storage 1

I got my NAS a couple weeks ago, and it's nice having it, now that have a redundant copy of my files in a centralized location.

It was a roller-coaster learning it though... After the initial setup, I did the quick setup which I couldn't figure out how to set up RAID1 and it ended up setting it up with the "Synology Hybrid RAID" whatever that is. After that I figured it out and deleted the hybrid RAID and set up RAID 1 like I wanted. It had to do some sort of disk/parity check even though it was RAID1... took a few hours to complete, but luckily, I was setting it up before work, so I just let it do it's thing while I went to work.

I attempted to fiddle with the settings to try to make it accessible over the internet, but to no luck. I'm not horribly concerned about it, since I mainly want to access it via LAN.

I had also set up the blocking feature, where I thought would just block IPs with bad logins.... but it turns out that it also blocks a login with a different IP/OS combo... In other words, the first instance I was making users for each of the computers (since you can't log "user a" on multiple computers at the same time), from Mei-chan. After making the first one, I got booted out and couldn't log back in as the admin... So I had to boot Melty back on to get into it and make a secondary admin account and unblock Mei-chan. Second time it happened, I was in openSUSE with Melty, and was trying to access the files and it locked me out, both admin accounts. Rebooting to windows didn't help, so I had to boot up Mei-chan and clear out the block and turn the feature off. If it had worked like I wanted, it would've been nice, but it was more of a hassle than it was worth. (By the way, I had it set to 1 login attempt within a 10 hour period with a 1 day lockout)

The on/off schedule is nice as well, I set it to be off while I'm at work, since there's no point for me to have it on when I'm not accessing it.