Linux, Home Servers, BASH, Photography, and Ruby on Rails
If you have a big RAID array, that last thing you want to be doing is always checking your available disk space. Let’s setup a quick script to monitor our shares for us daily and to send an alert when it gets over 90% used.
sSmtp is a very lightweight SMTP server that is perfect for sending out system emails. In this article, I will show you show to use sSMTP to send email through your Gmail account.
Here is a quick guide to setting up RAID5 using mdadm. In theory this should apply to any distro that has mdadm, but I was already running Ubuntu 10.04.
This week was mountains with the A.N.T. Landscape generator plugin and a snow shader.
Since this week was on oceans, I went back and tweaked what I had already created. It turned out looking pretty good.
I decided to adjust a bunch of settings, and make a true Michigan-style sunrise. I think this turned out pretty well.
This maple tree was modeled in Arbaro and imported it into Blender. I based it on the maple tree in my backyard. I intend to make a more interesting scene to put this into, and I need to fix the base of the trunk, it looks horrible.
This week, I played with the ivy generator, and making some ferns and other small plants. Pretty neat 🙂
This was the second part of the previous dining hall walkthrough that we did for Clark Construction. This is to demonstrate the area used by venues and seating. This was an edge render in Blender.
Here is a tree I modeled in ngPlant, and imported into Blender. I made my own leaf texture from the red bud tree in front of my house.
