Category Archives: pogoplug

Building a better pogoplug.

Posted on November 1, 2011 by spgennard

A while ago I purchased a pogoplug as a means of sharing photos with my family but its use never really happened because the interface they provided is clunky for hi-res pictures/video.. and some of the family failed to consistently … Continue reading →

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rsync & permission denied/operation not permitted & arch linux

Posted on September 30, 2011 by spgennard

I use rsync to sync directories between machines but one of my machines kept screwing up the permissions, I finally get time to track the “Operation not permitted” issue and it turned out to my vfat backup drive not being … Continue reading →

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Building rsync for the pogoplug

Posted on March 7, 2010 by spgennard

I finally managed to get a cross compiler that works with the pogoplug, I first tried various custom build of the GNU C++ cross compiler on the Mac but none of them succeeded in creating binaries that were compatible with … Continue reading →

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passwd: cannot update password file /etc/shadow

Posted on February 27, 2010 by spgennard

Okay.. I got my pogoplug last week and I have been playing around with it and it is now time to change the root password… so guess what happened…

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