technology – Page 4 – Ryan and Debi & Toren

2020 NAS – Plex, nomachine, Crashplan

Posted on June 22, 2020June 17, 2021

After about a year and a half with my previous NAS (see here), I decided it was time for an upgrade. The previous NAS had served dutifully, but it was…

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LibreOffice – exporting high-resolution TIFF/TIF files

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

As a scholar who regularly publishes work with charts and graphs, I’m often confronted with varied requirements from publishers for the format in which they want the charts and graphs….

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Linux – Video Tag Editing

Posted on May 30, 2020September 12, 2020

Not everyone may be as particular as I am about having my files organized, but I like to make sure everything is where it’s supposed to be. I make sure…

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LibreOffice 6.4.3.2 – Not Showing Greek Letters/Symbols

Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

I ran into an issue the other day that ended up taking me hours to solve, in part because I couldn’t find any other solutions online, which is pretty unusual…

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Plex on Linux – Video Files Not Detected

Posted on April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

I added a number of video files to my Plex server the other day and, when I checked Plex, some of them had not shown up in the corresponding library….

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Plex – Sports Videos Library

Posted on April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

I use Plex to manage my music and video libraries. I actually don’t watch sports very often. The one exception is when I’m grading papers (I’m a college professor). I’ve…

10,994 total views, 6 views today

LibreOffice Calc: Graphs with Two y-axes with Different Scales

Posted on March 28, 2020March 28, 2020

While a bit technical, it’s occasionally useful to plot multiple data series that have very different scales in the same chart. Let me give an example to illustrate. Let’s say…

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LibreOffice Calc: Interpolating Missing Values in Graphs

Posted on March 28, 2020March 28, 2020

Here’s my situation. I have some data over time but I’m missing values in specific years. I want to graph that data but would rather not have to estimate all…

8,530 total views, 9 views today

Setting Up a New Windows Computer for Your Kids

Posted on March 25, 2020September 14, 2021

I recently had a colleague contact me for some computer advice. He knows I’m a computer geek and was looking for some help setting up a new Windows laptop for…

4,129 total views, 2 views today

Plex/tinyMediaManager and Doctor Who Specials

Posted on March 19, 2020February 9, 2022

I’m a science fiction fan. And I want my science fiction at my fingertips. To that end, I have slowly been digitizing my favorite series (e.g., Star Trek, Stargate, and…

8,726 total views, 5 views today