I recently bought a Zyxel NAS 310 NAS server and i have been very pleased with it. However I did find one small problem when installing one of the packages called “PyLoad”. PyLoad is a download manager that can be run from the NAS server to allow you to download content from different websites including pay websites. I found straight away that the version of PyLoad they had in their packages list was out of date and this had a knock on effect with trying to download content. I had a little play around with the unit and found I could update PyLoad manually to the latest version (4.9) and it was pretty simple to achieve. I did the following from a Windows 7 Laptop, but i am sure its just as easy from any other OS. The only real tool you need to get hold of is a program such as “Kitty” so that you can access telnet on the NAS server. The first thing you need to do is login on the NAS server as admin and put the following line into the address bar: “http://x.x.x.x/zyxel/cgi-bin/remote_help-cgi?type=backdoor” changing the x.x.x.x to your NAS servers address. This will turn on the Telnet abilities on the server.
Next make sure you have PyLoad 4.5 installed on the NAS drive, no good from my example of installing something completely from fresh. I’m not very Linux orientated and therefore wouldn’t know how to start the scripts without just updating the system.
If you have PyLoad 4.5 already installed then you need to Telnet into the device. Simply telnet into it with the NAS server’s address. Use the Admin username and password to get into the device. Secondary Administrators won’t allow you in. Once you are in you need to grant yourself Superuser Access by using “su” and simply enter the password of the Administrator again.
At the prompt you need navigate to the existing PyLoad install. This is found at:
cd /i-data/md0/admin/zy-pkgs/pyLoad/
Please write it out exactly as there is one capital “L” in the list. And there is a space between CD and the first forward slash.
Next we need to change the folder permissions by using chmod. We will use the following command: “chmod 777 –R pyload” This is setting full permissions to the subfolders under the next folder called pyload.
The next part is relatively easy. You need to download the pyload-win-v0.4.9.zip and pyload-src-v0.4.9.zip from http://pyload.org/download and extract them both to two separate folders.
Once they are extracted its a case of just copying the new files to the NAS server and its fairly simple, but we also need to make sure the system doesn’t get copying error and therefore you need to login to the NAS server and turn off PyLoad (just uncheck the enable box). The two files you downloaded and extracted might look fairly confusing to start with but we are only taking a few files from the extracted folders. Its best to open two window panes at this point and navigate one to \\x.x.x.x\admin\zy-pkgs\pyLoad\pyload.
From the pyload-src-v0.4.9 folder we need to copy the following 4 files. systemCheck.py, pyLoadGui.py, pyLoadCore.py and pyLoadCli.py overwriting the existing ones.
From the (pyload-win-v0.4.9 folder you need to overwrite the following folders: modules, icons, scripts and locale which are located on the NAS drive. Just do a straight forward copy and paste.
Once you have done this the update is complete. Go back into the NAS control panel and re-enable pyload and you should find its all updated to the latest system. If it has failed, then simply uninstall pyload from packages and simply re-install.
And because my looks are bad i am very shy. I wish I could hold her in my arms and tell her how I feel, but sadly I think she avoids me now. I guess i don’t blame her, she does deserve the best! 
This is only a short post this time. I thought i would tell the world about the building work that has been taking place at our house. We’ve been having our bathroom replaced and it does honestly look good, but there are a few minor problems that seem to have been overlooked in the planning stages. First the bath has been put in back to front, its not a major thing, but when I’m laying in the bath i like to look out of the window, now all I see is a wall. And a crumbling wall at that lol. The second problem we’ve now got is they have plastered the wall which is a normal thing to do I guess, but then they decided to paint onto the wall whilst the plaster was still wet – now I’m not an engineer or anything, but I am pretty sure that will cause the plaster to blow at some point and not to mention cause the underside of the paint to rot. Our neighbours are also having troubles with the work being done on their house as the builders have not taken into account they have a young child and new born living in the house and they have left the house with tons of dust and on most days without a toilet to use. I know the council are trying to make our houses a better place to live, but they are rushing the jobs and not taking into account that people have to still live there. And the hap hazard way in which the council are implementing these changes is no way to really run a business. They will probably be called back out again in the weeks and months to come as more and more tenants complain that the work that had been done is now starting to rot and go bad. 
I had tried to put my hand of friendship out in the form of my email address in the hope we could find a common medium to get to know each other, but i feel i have over estimated the situation and she might either be too busy or simply not want to know. I will keep my hopes high and see if things gradually happen. 
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