I have a specific use scenario where I need to be on my home network to control a device but may want to control that device when I’m not home….
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Plex – Export Playlists to M3U
I spent the last year or so cleaning up my music library. It is now organized how I want it to be. I use two software packages to play my…
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Linux Server – Adding a New Domain and WordPress Site – Linode VPS – Ubuntu 18.04
I have a VPS server with Linode that I use to host about a dozen different websites. All but one of them run on WordPress. Occasionally, I get a request…
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GPRENAME – removing text up to a space using regular expressions
For a recent project, I came into possession of hundreds of photos, each of which was named according to the settings the person who take the photo with their phone…
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ZFS Snapshot Management
With my new fileserver/NAS, I am using a ZFS raid array for my file storage. One aspect of the ZFS file system that I didn’t really investigate all that closely…
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Long Term Storage of Gmail/Email using Mozilla’s Thunderbird (on Linux)
I have email going back to 2003. There have been times when I have actually benefited from my email archive. Several times, I have gone back 5 or more years…
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Continue readingLinux – Bulk UnRAR
If you’re not familiar with RAR files, they are like ZIP files. RAR is an archive format. I had a collection of more than 150 RAR files in a single…
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Continue readingLinux: Batch Convert .avi files to .mp4/.mkv
I’ve been trying to clean up my video library since building my latest NAS. In the process, I found a number of .avi files, which is an older file format…
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HandBrake – H.265 NVEnc 1080p Ripping Chart and Guidelines
With a Plex server, I want my collection of movies backed up digitally so I can watch them when and where I want to. This involves a two-step process. First,…
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How to Export Garmin Tracks/Activities to Google Maps
While it’s possible to share your Garmin tracks or activities with people through the Garmin website, I like exporting my tracks to Google Maps so I can embed them on…
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