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Hard disk SMART monitoring and alerts in OMV

All modern hard drives come with SMART, Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, which in essence allows you to monitor the status of your disks and if they have any errors. This will often alert you to dangerous situations where you have a disk that might be failing. SMART is not always going to save you… read more…
Replacing faulty drive in OMV

I have a OMV box with two disks in RAID 1, mirroring, with one disk failing. This post describes the process. Write down, on paper, the serial number of the failing disk. If you are like me all your disks may well be the same brand/model, so serial number is important. Removing the failing disk… read more…
Auto-post to Facebook

Zoyinc is my “brand” and this is my site so when I decided to auto-post to Facebook I thought it would be straight forward, but it did quite work out that way. These are some of the tips I found out along the way, yes the info will date because Facebook is a constantly evolving… read more…
Mission Bay Beach House

On the last day of 2017 I took the boys to the beach at Mission Bay and found this on the sand a little above the high tide mark. Nearly missed it at first but really glad I didn’t. [show_slider name=”mission-bay-beach-house”] When you look at the detail, such as the tiny table out in front… read more…
Back To The Future – Swanson School Production 2017

Once again at the direction of deputy principle Chris Hood, Swanson School puts on a fiery rendition of another classic full of life, energy and fun. Back to the Future has to be one of the best classic movies of all time and no small task to bring to the stage. The original classic written… read more…
Hook – Swanson School Production 2015

Swanson School had it’s first production under the leadership of Mr Hood as they weaved the classic J. M. Barrie tale of Captain Hook and Peter Pan with this adaption for stage written by Mr Hood. [show_slider name=”hook-swanson-school-production-2015″] Follow Peter, Wendy, John and Michael do battle with Captain James Hook and his band of pirates including… read more…
Color balance in Gimp using an eye dropper

Frequently you want to set the color balance for an image in Gimp but don’t want to do it manually. Fortunately it’s easy with Gimp using the eye dropper. Just select “Color | Levels” from the Gimp menu and you can see a dropper for selecting either a black, gray or while color point in… read more…
Run ESX from USB on old HP desktop

I have running VMware ESXi servers for years, sometimes at work on servers but recently at home on a whole bunch of older desktop machines. Not too many problems and when I did have problems it was usually about an unsupported network adaptor. Just a few weeks ago I tried to run ESX from USB… read more…
Scheduling a task in Open Media Vault

I need to run some scripts every night to move some files around in OMV. I want something that simple and easy to maintain and more or less stock standard. There are probably many variations on how this could be done but this is how I chose to do it. Before we start it is… read more…
DNS problems, email notifications not being sent

I had a working Open Media Vault system with notifications going out and then it stopped. OMV runs on Debian. In the log I started seeing: The actual error was: postfix/error[1443]: 1D96741676: to=<joe.blogs@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=175894, delays=175853/41/0/0.24, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=send.xtra.co.nz type=MX: Host not… read more…