I recently had to move all my websites from one virtual private server (VPS) to another. When I only had a few such websites, I was okay with using SFTP…
Category: technology
I tinker with tech…
ASUS Router – VPN with Android phone
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Linux – 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…
Linux: 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…
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,…