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New spot for Dremel

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My Dremel used to be installed under my bench (the bench I call the “booth”). But it was a hassle to get it out when I needed to use it. So I have relocated it to a spot next to my main bench (the bench I call the “bench”). So far so good. With the benefit of experience I should be able to figure out the best way to route the power cable.

John's Dremel mounted to his shelf

p.s. I tried to find a new one of these Dremel wall mounts to purchase, but I couldn’t find one for sale anywhere… if you find one for sale somewhere, please do let me know!

Super gluing number pad holder together

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Over time the joint on this holder comes a bit loose and I have to tighten it back up again. This time when I tightened it I dumped a whole tube of superglue in there. Hopefully that holds it!

I do put it under quite a bit of strain. In addition to holding the number pad for the booth, it also holds a bunch of my cables which I hang over it.

That red tape you can see I put there to stop the glue from leaking too much. I will remove that once the glue is dry.

A photo of the arm which holds the number pad to the table

How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu

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When I finally get a PCIe IDE adapter that works, this is gonna come in handy: How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu.

The IDE adapter that I have is this one, but it reports all disks as damaged (and they’re not). I think maybe it’s too new for the drives maybe? Speaking a newer version of the ATA protocol? I have no idea really.

Mounting Windows SMB share from Debian Wheezy

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Configuring an SMB mount from my Linux box to my Windows box. This was helpful.

Basically:

# apt-get install cifs-utils

Then create your credentials file:

# cat > /root/amanda.smbpass  <<EOF
username=jj5
password=SECRET
EOF

Then edit /etc/fstab and add:

//amanda.jj5.net/Users  /media/amanda cifs defaults,noauto,credentials=/root/amanda.smbpass 0 2

Then create /etc/network/if-up.d/mount-amanda like this:

#!/bin/bash
mount /media/amanda

And make sure it’s executable:

# chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/mount-amanda

Mounting can also be done from the command-line:

# mount -t cifs -o username=jj5,password=SECRET //amanda.jj5.net/Users /media/amanda