{"id":75,"date":"2013-02-06T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2013-08-03T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T11:56:13","slug":"thecus-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/thecus-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thecus NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a NAS, specifically a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecus.com\/product.php?PROD_ID=67\">Thecus\u00c2\u00a0N2200EVO<\/a>, to do LAN music streaming and some other miscellaneous storage tasks at home. I was just on the verge of disappointment at a few minor niggles, when I discovered the SSH interface.<\/p>\n<p>It lets you log in as root. It&#8217;s Linux on ARM. All the partitions are writable, and \/etc appears to be mounted on a persistent storage device. The web interface is written in PHP. Within a few minutes, I had hacked out the annoying Flash login page, now it is replaced by an HTML fallback (at least until the next reboot).<\/p>\n<p>The startup process is implemented in shell script, with explanatory comments by people called Astro, Michelle and Angus. It uses SQLite for configuration storage, in addition to plain files.<\/p>\n<p>I understand from a quick bit of web surfing that it is trivial to write your own &#8220;module&#8221;, which can contain modifications to the PHP web interface, arbitrary cross-compiled binaries, etc. Modules can be installed via the admin interface and are stored on the attached hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine a consumer device offering an easier path to customisation for a LAMP developer like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a NAS, specifically a Thecus\u00c2\u00a0N2200EVO, to do LAN music streaming and some other miscellaneous storage tasks at home. I was just on the verge of disappointment at a few minor niggles, when I discovered the SSH interface. It lets you log in as root. It&#8217;s Linux on ARM. All the partitions are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/thecus-nas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Thecus NAS&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}