For quite some time I’ve been trying to set up NFS an my MyBook World Edition (white light) to be able to mount the shared directories directly from Ubuntu.

Continue reading →

I’ve been using Western Digital’s MyBook World Edition (white light) for the last half a year or so. Until recently, everything worked fine but last week I noticed that the disk doesn’t spin down anymore. There seems to be constant activity on the device. Using ssh to log in, I noticed that there are quite a lot of services running which I thought I had disabled previously, including twonkymediaserver and miocrawler.

Continue reading →