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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
HomeLab
Ansible Tip: Running Interactive Scripts with Ansible
SomeÂtimes when you run a script with AnsiÂble it requires an interÂacÂtive prompt like y/n or someÂthing similar. I recently ran into this probÂlem and after a bit of head bashÂing I found the folÂlowÂing soluÂtion in a litÂ
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Fixing the fonts on my new MacBook Pro 13″ Retina on external displays
I have a new MacÂBook Pro 13″ Retina (early 2015) that is pretty amazÂing, howÂever when I plugged it into my large exterÂnal disÂplay at the office fonts became really blurry and ugly, so bad that I could barely look at the display! After a
HomeLab
How To Install Zimbra Desktop on Fedora
As we use ZimÂbra at work I decided to install ZimÂbra DeskÂtop for offline email, howÂever I ran into a bit of a snag because after downÂloadÂing it and folÂlowÂing the instalÂlaÂtion instrucÂtions I had the folÂlowÂing
HomeLab
Why I’m moving my desktop from OS X to Fedora Linux
I’ve been a hardÂcore Apple/Mac/OS X fanÂboy ever since the first Intel Macs came out and since I made the switch from WinÂdows I’ve never really look back. HowÂever I’ve always had this nigÂgling feelÂing in the back of
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Is RSS dying?
So today I open up my RSS reader (I migrated to NewsÂblur after Google killed Reader) and I’m browsÂing my usual feeds — includÂing DilÂbert when I see this: Grrr! Even after checkÂing the webÂsite and going to the offiÂcial feed it’s
HomeLab
How to load balance TCP connections with HAProxy
This week I was at a client where we were doing some perÂforÂmance testÂing of the JBoss EnterÂprise Data SerÂvices prodÂuct (EDS for short). EDS is based on the JBoss.org comÂmuÂnity project Teiid which is a data virÂtuÂalÂizaÂ