September 2016 – Nerd Blogging

Upcoming NAS Server

I’ve finally outgrown my Synology 416J NAS. It’s a well built device, but you are completely limited as to expanding or improving the performance

Install WMIC on Debian Jessie for Observium

Modified from here to work with Debian Jessie Observium Turnkey VM Step 1 – Install Required Packages apt-get install autoconf bzip2 make build-essential Step 2 – Download the ‘wmic’ source to /tmp cd /tmp wget http://www.openvas.org/download/wmi/wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 Step 3 – Untar the source tar -jxvf wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 Step 4 – Go into the directory and add a line of text to …

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Duplicate File Finder Script

I’ve been trying to cleanup my Plex Library, and since I’m retrieving videos from a couple sources like TiVo and DVDs, I’m undoubtedly encountering doubles. Now, there are handful of issues you run into like ignoring case and file extension. Used Get-Duplicate Method from here

Ubuntu 16.04.1 Installer Screen Cutoff in VMware ESXI 6

If presented with the above issue on a Ubuntu VM Install do the following steps Highlight Install Ubuntu and type e 2. Change set gfxpayload=keep to setgfxpayload=auto 3. Hit F11 to Boot 4. Run through the installer as usual.

Pine64 Notes and LCD not working, but HDMI Does

When I first purchased mine via the initial Kickstarter, I had many issues getting working hardware. Once I was able to get a non-damaged LCD, as apparently shipping from China is very difficult, I ran into an issue where video would work via HDMI but not via the Touch LCD. The problem is that only …

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