I'm really excited about the current influx of new people to building computers for the first time to mine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and more. Spending time browsing Reddit I get the impression some are completely new to building PCs and even newer to Linux. This guide is (hopefully...
In the world of PCI passthrough few things have excited me more than the release of the new Looking Glass project from gnif over on the Level1tech forums.
https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
This project will allow you to capture the rendered frame output from your GPU in a Windows guest to a...
Welcome to a new series of articles that will take you on a journey to generate beautiful looking dashboards using Grafana. We'll take the readings from the metrics the things in your house are already generating such as your home server, IoT devices (Nest thermostat in my case), pfSense firewall, U...
In order to use ipmitool to gather metrics as part of my Telegraf, Grafana and InfluxDB (TIG) setup (read more about how I set that up here) I needed to find a way give non-root access to run ipmitool.
The solution turned out to be quite simple in the end. Modify a udev rule to give the teleg...
My Windows 10 QEMU guest shut down uncleanly and Windows, being the (un)helpful soul it is decided I needed to boot loop through 'preparing automatic repair' until the end of time. Here's how to fix it...
This guide assumes you are running a Windows guest on a Linux host using libvirt + qemu / k...
There might be the odd occasion where you want to know what your drives are up to individually. Enter, dstat. Do follow the link as the site has a plethora of other options to try!
This tool is installable on Debian with apt install dstat and provides a bunch of useful information. You can run...
The Perfect Media Series has a new home at perfectmediaserver.com. This series remains public here for informational purposes only - for questions or support please visit the new site.
It's been almost 18 months since my original article in 2016 on the 'perfect' media server - this article...
One of the most popular pieces on this site was an article I wrote just over a year and a half ago on how to set up an affordable and small home server. It proved wildly popular, I think, because of the ProLiant's modest price point and ease of use. However, that was back in early 2015. We're now...
Any audiophile will attest to compiling albums well into the hundreds, or even thousands. When a music collection grows, it can become harder to keep it well managed.
The main problem with managing a music collection is, generally, each collector has their own way of archiving their music. We all...