Plex Streaming 101
For Plex proponents like myself, this video is a nice, simple walkthrough of the ways that Plex Media Server streams media to different devices both in your hom...
Tag: geek stuff
Anything you have to say has already been said…
So I stumbled across this website called the Library of Babel last night, and it’s kind of freaky. Essentially they’ve created an algorithm that has...
It takes an awesome wife to let you run cat6 overhead through her kitchen…
Just did an experiment because Plex videos have been buffering more than usual, especially some new home videos that I added tonight from our phones, so I ran a...
Home Tech Talk, Part 2
So picking up where I left off last night, I think these are going to be my next points of focus around the house… Run Cat6 to the Living Room and Bedroom...
Envisioning My Automated Home…
So I spent some time reviewing my home server/network setup as it stands so far and it got me thinking about what might be the next steps on down the road. I...
“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass…”
I don’t know what it is about this movie because it’s really just awful, but there’s something about its awfulness that makes it ideal for tur...
movies thoughts … Avengers: Age of Ultron
Went and saw this a week ago because apparently that’s what you do when someone offers to play sitter for a night! And although I’d argue that it wa...
Memory Lane, not so much paved with gold…
So the last time that I was back home in Michigan, I set aside another pile of stuff for my Dad to shuttle down with him during his annual vacation to a warmer ...
Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte
I’ve had this episode of Foundation in which Kevin Rose interviews Leo Laporte earmarked for a while now, but I finally found some time this week to liste...
How does one backup a media server’s worth of data???
After adding a 4th hard drive to my home server today, bringing the total storage space up to an unexpected 20 TB, I’ve been thinking a lot about backups ...