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Building the Ultimate Home Media Center with the new AppleTV 4, Plex/Kodi and a QNAP NAS
TL;DR The Apple TV 4 can run Plex or Kodi (XBMC) directly and play all my Movies, TV Shows and Music from my QNAP NAS. It’s quite a sweet setup. I’ve finally had a bit of time to work on a project I’ve had on my
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Ansible Tip: Running Interactive Scripts with Ansible
Sometimes when you run a script with Ansible it requires an interactive prompt like y/n or something similar. I recently ran into this problem and after a bit of head bashing I found the following solution in a lit
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Fixing the fonts on my new MacBook Pro 13″ Retina on external displays
I have a new MacBook Pro 13″ Retina (early 2015) that is pretty amazing, however when I plugged it into my large external display at the office fonts became really blurry and ugly, so bad that I could barely look at the display! After a
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How To Install Zimbra Desktop on Fedora
As we use Zimbra at work I decided to install Zimbra Desktop for offline email, however I ran into a bit of a snag because after downloading it and following the installation instructions I had the following
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Why I’m moving my desktop from OS X to Fedora Linux
I’ve been a hardcore Apple/Mac/OS X fanboy ever since the first Intel Macs came out and since I made the switch from Windows I’ve never really look back. However I’ve always had this niggling feeling in the back of
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Is RSS dying?
So today I open up my RSS reader (I migrated to Newsblur after Google killed Reader) and I’m browsing my usual feeds — including Dilbert when I see this: Grrr! Even after checking the website and going to the official feed it’s
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How to load balance TCP connections with HAProxy
This week I was at a client where we were doing some performance testing of the JBoss Enterprise Data Services product (EDS for short). EDS is based on the JBoss.org community project Teiid which is a data virtualiza