Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Marius Bogdan Lixandru is a highly experienced content creator from Romania with a background in biology, chemistry and computer programming. He loves writing technical guides that are accessible for non-technical people. Born in 1984, he has always expressed interest in technology. Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits. When he’s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, he’s likely enjoying a refreshing slice of juicy, honey-sweet watermelon, sluggishly lying on the grass in his orchard, sitting in the shade under the trees he himself has planted. Torpid summer days accompanied by cicada sounds and greeted by his smiling wife and happy, tail-wagging presence of his two mioritic shepherd dogs are some of the simpler pleasures in life that help him recharge his batteries to take on the latest tech challenges. Support My Work and Feel free to contact me.

Synology: How to Switch Drive Indicator Status Light

27 December 201920 October 2019 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Sometimes you have to change a faulty SSD/HDD disk on our Synology NAS. If you have set up RAID 1 or 5, what you will read below should help you. If you use your NAS as a web server or for hosting websites (like I do with mariushosting.com), you’ll find it very useful to know … Read more about Synology: How to Switch Drive Indicator Status Light

Synology: Scanning NAS Ports Using Windows 10

19 October 2019 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

When configuring my firewall on Synology NAS I found it useful to have a quick way to check if the ports I was working with were open or closed. Few people know that an application called PowerShell is included in Windows 10 (by default). Thanks to the command called Test Net Connection (TNC), we can … Read more about Synology: Scanning NAS Ports Using Windows 10

Synology: 3rd Party Packages Update Slowly

12 January 202018 October 2019 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Synology, I will never get tired of saying it: do you want to be number 1 in the NAS world? If the answer is yes, then you need to find a solution to update third-party packages sooner. 2020 is knocking on our door and it is inconceivable that you have barely released a Security Advisory … Read more about Synology: 3rd Party Packages Update Slowly

How Can I Run IRC on Synology NAS?

27 September 202012 October 2019 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Can you run IRC (Internet Relay Chat) on your Synology NAS device? No, you can’t, and here are the reasons why. First of all, there’s no .spk client for Synology NAS. And really no interest from Synology management to develop something like this. It’s kind of sad, isn’t it? A long time ago, in the … Read more about How Can I Run IRC on Synology NAS?

Synology Router RT2600ac Inside Look

11 October 2019 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Have you just bought a new Synology RT2600ac router and are already wondering what’s inside it? When we were kids, we were used to opening all of our toys by doing an accurate autopsy on them. But now that we are all grown up, we’ve learned not to “break” all the electronics that we get … Read more about Synology Router RT2600ac Inside Look

Can I Install SETI@home on Synology NAS?

5 October 2019 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

The year was 1999 when the SETI@home software was released and nostalgia still flows through our veins. The whole world was united in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence signals directly from their own bedroom. Who of you hasn’t installed the software on all the computers in their school? Or who of you hasn’t tried to … Read more about Can I Install SETI@home on Synology NAS?