NAS-Central & Foonas Weblog

A letter arrived on my doormat at the end of last week from the USA! Not very often I get post from there, after I opened it it was a nice thank you card from OSUOSL thanking us for our last donation. OSUOSL provide us with rack space and pay for our bandwidth, so this is the least we can do to thank them for helping us.

Thank you OSUOSL! Here is the card:

This weekend we will be removing the following wikis due to lack of usage:

• D-Link
• Freecom
• Linksys
• Maxtor
• Synology

Today we updated all the forums to the latest version of phpBB and following this we upgraded the nas-central blog. Also we fixed an issue with news reporting to the wikis from the blog.

You may have noticed that we have changed the main portal back to a wiki too as this is useful for general articles that are not device specific. There is still some more content to restore to this area and a bunch of links that need fixing that link there from the other wikis – please bear with us while this happens.

Tonight also we will be looking at upgrading the bug tracker and possibly merging the foonas bug tracker into this area.

Thanks!

We are looking to upgrade our storage on our server with a couple of 2 TB disks. To do this we need to raise approximately $550 USD. We will be using what is currently in the reserve towards this but we need your help getting the rest.

We are advert free and do our best to provide you with this resource thanks to your kind donations. Three years ago you helped us buy a new server, which is now hosted for free at OSUOSL – this is the first new server hardware we have needed since then.

We hope this will be easy to achieve if everyone can give a little!

Please visit http://www.nas-central.org/donations – thank you for your help.

In the next post we will be letting you know a bit more about the NAS-Central infrastructure at OSUOSL.

NAS Central is now on Facebook! To view our public listing and add us click here. We will be relaying blog posts via Facebook and providing further updates on our profile page there!

At user request we have created various spaces for Plextor devices here at NAS-Central. Currently the following services are available right now for Plextor users:

• A dedicated Plextor forum area at our forum – this will be split into sub-forums as it becomes popular
• A wiki for documenting information about these devices at plextor.nas-central.org
• A downloads area at downloads.plextor.nas-central.org

Any help you can give documenting information, providing modifications or helping out in the forum is greatly appreciated!

Cap in hand time for NAS-Central again – this year we would like your help in raising more funds so that we can:

• Run another competition this year
• Fund some dev machines if possible
• Supply OSUOSL with a hosting donation
• Save some money for server hardware replacement

If you are able to help please click the link below for information on donating – anything helps no matter how small!

http://www.nas-central.org/donations

Again, at your request we recently restored the content of the old main portal (what used to be www.nas-central.org) to a new sub-domain – general.nas-central.org. In the process we removed some content that is duplicated elsewhere and a bit of spam! This area will be useful for documenting any non-manufacturer specific information that you may have, as well as being able to refer to the content that is already there.

To login and edit this wiki register for the forum at forum.nas-central.org and use that account!

At your request we have created a new forum area for Sitecom NAS device users to discuss issues and modifications in our forum – if this proves popular and/or people are willing to use one, we are happy to add a wiki for Sitecom devices too!

NAS Central would like to wish all its users merry Christmas and a happy new year!

A review of the new Thecus N2200 is up and not looking too good here at smallnetbuilder.com – also linuxdevices.com have a bit of information up about the Synology DS210j.

Do you have a bit of spare time over the festive period? Help us by documenting any useful information you have in the wiki for your manufacturer – thanks!