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[edit] General discussion

[edit] Importing - Article naming

• I don't believe much in keeping the old article naming. Why name something "Articles/GeneralUSBSound" when a title like "USB Sound" is much more logical? The "Article/" prefix is redundant, because everything in a WIKI is an article. The "General" prefix is meaningless. If something applies to a particular LS only, then a title like "USB Sound (LS2)" would do. 89.52.191.108 02:15, 16 June 2006 (EDT)

• Who are you? The reason is to keep older links working if we get back the .org domain and other site and the forum archive still points to the Articles/... or Projects/... links. --flavoie 10:32, 16 June 2006 (EDT)

• You are right with that. Later everything will be organised over categories (Hardware specific: LS1, LS2, LS HG...; Distribution-specific: Stock, Openlink, Freelink, Debil.sh (debian on LS2) ). But the main part of the transfer is the conversion to the new wiki-language. Later we can easily change this. Mediawiki-admins are quite powerful users ;) -- mindbender

[edit] Copying and stealing is not cool

• I'm writing this as someone from Kurobox Wiki came into the IRC channel and asked me to relay a message to the editors in charge (the discussion can be read at Kurobox_IRC_discussion). Now I personally think this is not an issue at all, but since someone clearly thinks it is, someone should probably look into it. Possibly by re-writing that sentence. --Shrike 09:18, 27 June 2006 (EDT)

• I re-wrote the line, but apparently this was about idea theft (it being dictionary-like) and thats just stupid. Somebody who gives a shit deal with this one. --Shrike 09:37, 27 June 2006 (EDT)
• I did this, and I ended up taking it out. Sorry to generate pain/flaming for you on IRC. Seemed pretty innocuous to me at the time. Calling it intellectual property theft is a bit hypocritical. After all it probably came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki originally --Ramuk 00:40, 28 June 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Discussion regarding the Main Page

It might be a good idea to start outlining what the main page should have.

• Firstly I think there should be three (or more) sub-index pages for the different LS models, which would then summarize the said hardware and hacks/software for it. This would separate the projects more and make them easier to the new users to be to understand. --Shrike 20:21, 14 June 2006 (EDT)

• I think it is easier to discuss this in the forum.

[edit] The original wiki index page

Below is what the old one used to look like (should we leave this as is and start another one for the editing purposes?)

[edit] Homepage

Welcome to the LinkStationWiki! This site is primarily geared towards Buffalo Technology’s amazing network attached storage (NAS) device called the LinkStation. You’ll also find tutorials on installing and configuring Debian, performance tuning Samba, securing Apache, and much more. By design a wiki is only as good as the people who use it, so please help make this wiki great by contributing your knowledge.

The Main and Projects areas of the wiki are write-restricted to developers only. Please contact frontalot (redundant, didn't add the email address --Shrike 20:21, 14 June 2006 (EDT)) for a custom password if you need write access to these areas. The Articles and PITS bug tracker areas are write-public. Don’t forget to enter an author name when submitting a wiki article.

Get involved; we need your help! I have ranked our needs from least difficult to most difficult.

[edit] Donate

The easiest thing anyone can do is donate money. Simply click the PayPal donate button located at the left menu bar. No donation is too small! The next round of donations will be going towards acquiring a Gigabit LinkStation (powerpc-hdhglan). We also need to acquire a development LinkStation for timtimred. He is working hard on a new kernel and many of the development tools for OpenLink.

Received: $655
Web Hosting: -$120
Mipsel-hdhlan LinkStation: -$195
Serial Converter Parts: -$100 Balance: $240

The dollar amounts are rounded to account for Paypal transaction costs.

[edit] Beta Testing

We need beta testers for all projects! You may download beta releases from the "snapshots" directory in the downloads area. These releases should be considered for testing purposes only and hence unsuitable for mainstream use. You should check the forums to see exactly what is being tested before you download a snapshot. Please help out by reporting bugs via the PITS bug tracker.

[edit] Articles

Share your knowledge by writing a wiki article. Please make sure to post your article in the appropriate area.

[edit] Package Development

We are in the process of developing a new public FTP system. The new system will be available soon.

There, thats is as close as I am willing to try to get it. --Shrike 20:21, 14 June 2006 (EDT)

[edit] LinkStation EZ aka LS-LGL

There is now a new "LinkStation EZ" available in North America which is the LS-LGL series. -- gv

Added LSEZ to the names on the frontpage. -- Mindbender

[edit] Unable to access LinkStation Pro V1

This is a LS-500 gig I can see ip address with Buffalo Client but cannot access it through web interface, telnet clients or any other. In the buffalo client it shows the ip but says workgroup is unknown and i did assign a workgroup when i 1st installed it I can ping the address for it with a reply. I have done the reset button on the back with no results is there anyway to make it restore it self witho ut loosing any files on it?

thanks Roy

[edit] Post in forum

Please post your questions of this sort in the appropriate forum group, not in the wiki

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=39

However you may wish to look here: Revive your arm9 box from scratch

- Ramuk 14:32, 25 July 2008 (BST)