I love my Plex server. I stream my music basically around the world (I travel regularly). But it took me a while to figure out how to create playlists that…
Category: technology
I tinker with tech…
Restarting KDE’s Plasma Shell via Konsole (command line)
As much as I love KDE as my desktop environment (on top of Ubuntu, so Kubuntu), it does occasionally happen that the Plasma Shell freezes up (usually when I’ve been…
Linux – Music File Naming Conventions
I have been collecting music files for decades, like a lot of people. My total collection includes over 10,000 tracks. When I built my own NAS recently, I decided it…
Linux – Fixing “apt-get” failed installation
Occasionally, when I try to install an update or install software via the console using apt-get, something goes wrong. To date, I have never had the failure of a package…
Linux – Downloading YouTube Videos with VLC
I occasionally need to download a video from YouTube (e.g., my son’s school posts a video of him and I want a copy). There used to be browser extensions to…
LibreOffice Calc – Creating Charts with Conditional Formatting
I was working on creating a chart in LibreOffice Calc that was kind of weird. Basically, I wanted to show change over time in a dichotomous variable (e.g., political party…
Building My Own NAS (with Plex, Crashplan, NFS file sharing, bitTorrent, etc.)
NOTE: As of 2020-06-22, I have a new NAS build. You can read about it here. For about the last seven years (since 2012), I’ve been using a Synology NAS…
Linux – OCR PDF
One of the few tasks I have not been able to do on Linux since I switched over from Windows more than a decade ago is optical character recognition (OCR)…
LibreOffice – Impress Templates and Object Styles
I just upgraded one of my computers to Kubuntu 18.10. With that upgrade came the latest version of LibreOffice (6.1.2.1). With this new version, when I try to create a…
LibreOffice – animating elements or series in a chart/graph in Impress
I really like LibreOffice. It’s not just my default office suite because it’s free. I like it because of the control it gives over so many elements of what I…