{"id":4252,"date":"2016-07-29T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:52:33","slug":"a-new-net-book-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"A New Net-book Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A New Beginning<\/p><\/div>\n

I just previously posted that I did an Operating System (OS) update to my to my little Asus net-book to XUBUNTU. I have had a chance to use it for awhile and have decided it was an excellent decision. I again have a very usable small computer I can use on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

Another system problem was corrected at nearly the same time. I have a USB hard drive that is connected to the network through my router\/switch. The first one has failed after what I think is at least 6 and probably more years of 24\/7 spinning. I had purchased it originally as a back up for my work computer. The I pressed it into service as my NAS type LAN file server at home.<\/p>\n

It was beginning to die on the vine, so to speak, so I knew its end was near. I backed it up (only 105 GB or so out of a 500 GB capacity) to my Linux Sandbox machine. I ordered a 2 Terabyte drive as a replacement. Large drives are rather low cost these days.<\/p>\n

The new drive arrived the day the old drive totally failed. Good timing and I was glad I had acomplished the back up. In my experience most drives give some sort of indication when they are failing. Unless of course it is because of a lightning strike.<\/p>\n

The new drive will go to sleep when not being accessed for a few minutes. This is exactly what I desire. It is a 7200 RPM drive and it does not need to be spinning 24\/7 when it is not being used. The start-up is no issue and no where near the time I used to experience accessing corporate LAN file servers. I am pleased. After the first access and the drive is \u201cawake\u201d there is no noticeable lag as it is well buffered.<\/p>\n

I never work directly off a LAN drive even when I worked in corporate offices. I would open them for reading, etc. but not for long sessions. We didn\u2019t have the sharing ability that is now built into MS Office and other programs. I always did the work local as the file on the LAN was always locked to others if I had it open. On my home network I don\u2019t have a sharing issue.<\/p>\n

I just tested access using the net-book and it works just fine. I now have two Terabytes available for storage with my net-book. It is nice to know it is accessible but I doubt I will use it very much with the net-book. Perhaps file transfers and as a back up location. This little computer is not really a work station.<\/p>\n

It does let me get out of my home office cubbyhole and enjoy the light of day once in awhile. Life is good once again\u2026 A new life for me as well as the net-book, Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just previously posted that I did an Operating System (OS) update to my to my little Asus net-book to XUBUNTU. I have had a chance to use it for awhile and have decided it was an excellent decision. I again have a very usable small computer I can use on a regular basis. Another system problem was corrected at nearly the same time. I have a USB hard drive that is connected to the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}