Terence Eden’s Blog

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@edentadvertising personalisation phorm · 500 words

[Disclaimer - all personal opinions. I work for a mobile operator (Vodafone) but these are not their thoughts, opinions, plans or ideas.]I've been reading a few articles about how social networks and mobile operators feel like they own their customers.I think personalisation is a great thing. If Facebook or my phone company can give me a personalised service - or discounts that I'm going to use - then I'm all for it. However, how much of your personal privacy would you be prepared to…

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Building the ultimate Xbox Server

@edentdebian NAS rtorrent samba xbox xbox linux xebian xNAS · 11 comments · 950 words · read ~5,313 times.

I've been playing around with Linux on the Xbox for a while. I finally decided to stop piddling about with the stock drive and create a fully featured network server. I shall call this beast.... The xNAS! While doing this, I found a lot of badly presented and conflicting information. This is my attempt to right that wrong. I've attempted to add some of these steps to the Wiki, but it's not accepting changes at the moment. This tutorial assumes you are using Xebian and an original Xbox. …

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