Erasing and Resetting disks for use on FreeNAS

Some of us re-use disks that were once part of an array without first removing the array information written in the disks. FreeNAS has problems with those disks and will not allow use of those disks until the array information has be wiped away. It is not easy to find...

Installing Adaptec HBA driver on FreeNAS

Althought FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, the method of installation of drivers are different. You need to follow the following steps (Assuming you have installed FreeNAS in a bootable USB disk)  : Download the drivers for FreeBSD for your respective HBA at the Adaptec...

Editing the GUID or MBR partition of a boot disk

Older PCs have BIOS that uses MBR on the storage media for information for access.  Modern systems have UEFI that uses GUID with GPT partitions on the storage media for access. If you have an old system with a new boot disk with a GUID partition, you may not be able...

SoftKey Software protection key emulators

More than 10 years ago, it is common for the use of hardware dongles connected to the Parallel or USB ports for the protection and licensing of software. There is a huge problem for this method of protection.  Apart from the possibility of a loss of the dongle, you...

How to watch US Netflix anywhere!

Our favourite Netflix has decided to ban subscribers who are from countries out of the USA from using various methods to fool their system to access USA only content.  This blog allows you to perform a few simple steps to watch USA Netflix content again. Background :...