What is a Philips Fidelio I hear you ask? Well, it’s an Airplay speaker I’ve had for about six years and for the most of that time it has gone completely unused, mainly because it was completely unusable! After posting a review on the Philips website, I’ve now been sent a firmware updated, and it appears to be doing what it should, almost! (more…)
You might remember earlier this year when I got a surprise call from Virgin Media and a new TiVo v6 box, which I blogged about here. Well, this time it was my turn to call Virgin and try to negotiate a better price for my Broadband, TV, and Telephone services. The result was a saving of £10 and a new Superhub 3 which will bump up my broadband speed from 200 to 300Mbps 😀
After running so reliably for such a long time, I’d received another e-mail from CrashPlan today to say my backup set was below 100%. Time for some investigation…. (more…)
It was time for my SSL certificate renewal, which I blogged about creating here. At the end of that blog, the dry-run had worked fine, so I wasn’t expecting any issues with the renewal. Expectations are not always reality though… (more…)
I received an e-mail today telling me that CrashPlan hadn’t backed up for the last 3 days. I have CrashPlan running in a VirtualBox jail as I blogged about here, and I very rarely check it as it just does its stuff in the background, and sends me a weekly update to say everything is fine.
So I used a Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to check the VM and was surprised to see error messages to say it has run out of disk space. When I’d set it up I’d created a virtual disk of 20GB, which I’d assumed would be plenty, but when I investigated it appeared to be all but full. So the daunting task of increasing the size of the VirtualBox .vdi file, which I’ve done before on a Windows VM, but not one running in a Jail on my FreeNAS server. (more…)
The first question I’d be asking if I’d read the other Plex 🙁 emby:-) blog is whether emby is actually a good replacement for Plex, or is it just too much of a compromise? Well, ‘out of the box’ so to speak, I’d probably say it wasn’t but it’s not too difficult to add in some of the missing pieces and after a few days configuring and testing I’d say it mostly is.
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