Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
This is part 2 of my Raspberry Pi as UPS server via the NUT post a while back. I configured my Raspberry Pi to be my NUT server. I have three Cyberpower UPS connected to the RPi via USB cables. To make a node a NUT client, we need to install the nut-client package. Once […]
I have been using Univention Corporate Server. Now, I am in a process of switching to FreeIPA. This post is how I installed FreeIPA on Rocky Linux. This post assumption is there is a fresh Rocky Linux installed. I am planning to use FreeIPA solely for LDAP purposes, so I am skipping the DNS part
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I am using Timeshift to take a snapshot of my darktower NAS and workstations just in case of the failed upgrade were to occur. I could rollback to the previous snapshot then I am good to go. Preparing the USB drive Preparing an external device such as USB thumb drive for storing the Timeshift snapshots.
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If you have some media that require renaming, Filebot can quickly rename a bulk of media files by pulling their metadata from specific resources. This is great until the application became closed source or behind the paywall. There are many forks of the last open-source version, but the repo from coppit/filebot is a docker container
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Not too long ago, I posted the Raspberry Pi NUT server. This post is somewhat related to it. I am going to add email notification using msmtp. An assumption with this post: Gmail account that is configured with app password. It is probably a good idea to create a new account just for notification and
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Do this at your own risk. This worked on my motherboard. Always read and get familiarize with the Supermicro instruction prior to continuing. I bought a SATA PCIe x4 card to support my SSDs. I would use my onboard SATA ports except that the hot-swap bay is sitting on top of the SATA ports. I
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Last year, I was trying to get Jellyfin‘s LDAP plug-in to work with Univention, but my attempt was not a success. I went back to Emby since the Emby implementation is easier. However, I really want to use Jellyfin because it is free and open-source software (FOSS) and I want to support and use the
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Encountered this annoying error on Emby the other day. To make long story short, my root disk does not have enough space for a new file. The file in question is the transcoding files that are located in /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp. Somehow the transcoding folder ate all the free space that my server has. My understanding is,
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I posted about ShinobiCCTV awhile back and I still think that it is still a great FOSS NVR. However, ShinobiCCTV not for me. I have been testing Shinobi instance both on a VM and Docker container, and I could not get it to work properly. There were several issues that I was having with Shinobi
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I am not sure what kind of unknown issue I am going to encounter with the TKL Nextcloud, but so far I can upgrade the Nextcloud instance without any issues. Upgrading TKL Nextcloud or any Nextcloud instance is pretty straight forward. Navigate to Settings > Administration > Overview. Click on the Open updater button to
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