February 2015 - IDmedia

February 27th, 2015 at 10:00pm by Benjamin Krause

Omega back-end and game scraper

The past couple of days have been dedicated to the back-end of Omega, the front-end I’m developing for my bartop arcade. It has been a whole lot of work for one person, but the result will be awesome.

February 26th, 2015 at 05:31pm by Benjamin Krause

Omega design concept

The last couple of days have been dedicated to designing a new front-end for my custom bartop arcade. I’m not very happy with my current setup running HyperSpin since it has some nasty bugs and isn’t actively maintained anymore. It’s time to go pro and also build the software myself, not just the hardware!

February 21st, 2015 at 02:42pm by Benjamin Krause

Recovering from a RAID 0 or RAID 5 crash

The Asus Zenbook u500vz ships with two 128GB SanDisk SSDs operating in a RAID 0 configuration by default. Yesterday I got my hand on such a device that had suffered from a severe disk crash, leaving just one of the drives accessible. What to do?

February 20th, 2015 at 12:37am by Benjamin Krause

Reddit video addons for Kodi Helix

Just recently I upgraded my HTPC from XBMC to the latest version of Kodi Helix. After the upgrade I was quite disappointed to notice the lack of any Reddit-Video addons and decided to fix that.

February 10th, 2015 at 09:58pm by Benjamin Krause

Expand the volume if Synolgy DSM doesn’t want to

While running XPEnology, my virtual Synology DS3615xs Disk Station, I came across an odd problem preventing me from expanding my volume after adding more disks. Whatever I did, the DSM volume did not want to expand beyond a certain size, but this is how I solved the problem.

February 10th, 2015 at 09:04pm by Benjamin Krause

Install Synology DSM in a ESXi 5.x virtual machine

Back in 2011, I ordered myself a Synology Disk Station DS410 4-bay NAS in order to have a centralized and private storage solution for my files. I have to admit, the user interface and support from Synology superseded everything else at that time. Even now, four years later, I get free updates that provide many new features like running your own “Dropbox” clone. However, while the software continues to evolve, the hardware in the device sadly does not.