OpenFiler is “a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution” which offers “file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.” I think this might be the only free NAS / SAN “appliance” Linux distribution for general-purpose hardware.
CornFS “is an attempt at creating a distributed filesystem that mirrors N copies of files across a group of M number of servers.” Think MogileFS + FUSE, without the need for trackers / DB servers. Most replicated filesystems are volume-based, which is fine for most environments, but my home situation is that I have a couple of large volumes that I’d like to have backed up across a series of systems with smaller drives. CornFS looks like a solution to that problem.
Tweak MCE to automatically start on Recorded TV / Live TV / EPG / etc. This should have been part of the GUI.
The Megapixel Myth. “The reason more pixels is good is so that you can decide which 3.2 million of them to use.” That’s a big part of my reasoning for waiting to replace my lost 5MP DMC-FX7 with the 6MP DMC-FX9. A 3x zoom just isn’t enough to properly frame a distant shot, so the more pixels to play with the better. Unfortunately sensor noise is much more evident in the FX9’s pictures at 1:1 than the FX7. Next time I buy a compact point-n-shoot I will pay more attention to pixel quality.
