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,…
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.…
I decided to not heed any warnings about replacement lenses for the GXV3672 and I looked around for a 2.8mm lens that was only 15mm deep. I found one on Ebay and got it in within a few days. The below pictures are before and after. You can see…
I've had a Logitech 700e outside the house for a while. For some reason it died recently, first working intermittently, and now not working at all. I've been looking at the Grandstream GXV series cameras, but I've been able to find little information about…
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…
Just a real quick command line for encoding my ripped DVDs to AppleTV3, or MP4, format: HandBrakeCLI -i /mnt/DVDs/BIGBOSS/VIDEO_TS/ -o /mnt/DVDs/BIGBOSS/Big\ Boss.mp4 --preset="AppleTV 3"…
I had to rebuild my Plex server due to some drive errors. In the process I migrated to CentOS. This seems to have worked relatively well, but now I believe I've run into the "stale file handle" problem. I've adjusted my fstab settings to…