For a while now I've been running Plex as my primary media server. I've been trying to use the Plex DVR, but found it to be very finicky. Mostly, it would fail to record shows without telling me in any way. I'd review my…
The Nutanix install has been moving along. I would not say it's ready for more than lab use, but it's getting there. I'm setting up a 3 node cluster, and one of the nodes, which has an Intel motherboard, kept throwing a generic error…
About 2 months ago Nutanix.com released a free software only version of their magic, called Community Edition. I got on the list for this as quickly as I could, but I haven't been able to install it until now. See, I wanted to have an actually cluster,…
In the interest of completeness I'm posting my pictures here to show what the inside of the GXV3610 looks like. I couldn't find this anywhere else, so here it is: My goal was to remove the cable from the backside of the ball and run it…
My 700e security camera failed after a couple years of use. I got a Grandstream replacement, which I'll also post about, so I figured it would be good to take the 700e apart and see if I could figure out what went wrong. Figure it out I did.…
No matter what I did I could not get a stable NFS connection to Unraid. The stale file handles problem was a continuing source of issues with Plex running on Ubuntu. I just switched to SMB and it seems to be working ok. I'm having some pausing on…
And yet some things stay the same. I'm returning to IT consulting next week and I'm very excited to be doing this! I gave the corporate job 3.5 years and while I thought it was good for getting that type of experience, it never really…