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HP Microserver Gen8 - Firmware and BIOS 29 Jul 2021 NAS HP Microserver Gen8

I have an HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 which I use as my main NAS. One of the really neat things about it is that it has Integrated Lights Out. This is HP's version of Out of band management. Dell has DRAC, Cisco has IMC. It's also known as IPMI. Anyway, mine was old and needed updating. What's out......

DIY Devices - The VPN 28 Jul 2021 DIY devices Wireguard VPN

There are times where it's really useful to be on my home network when I'm away. In the past I have achieved this with SSH port forwarding. It works well enough for most things - but it's a bit of a faff changing web proxies and of course it doesn't work easily for everything. I thought it would be......

DIY Devices - Virtualisation 20 Jul 2021 DIY devices Virtualisation

I started a new job in 2016 where I was now using enterprise network servers more - and on a more Unixy stack than my previous Microsoft one. I frequently needed to run virtual servers for development. It was possible to do on my work laptop but that only had 8gb RAM. I was also tinkering with other......

DIY Devices - Media Centre 10 Jul 2021 DIY devices Raspberry Pi Kodi tvheadend

In 2005 I bought a Windows Media Centre - it ran a fanless Pentium mobile processor and worked reliably for about 10 years. But the NIC failed. There was no HDMI port. Windows XP was getting long in the tooth and it wouldn't run Windows 7. So in 2015 I bought a new one; a fanless i5 (4690s) desktop......

Kodi 19 library failures 18 Jun 2021 kodi The TVDb

Kodi 19 Matrix seemingly fails on library scans which worked perfectly in 18. I experienced this recently - my library remained unchanged from before but the scans were only about 85% effective. Of course, from time to time, programs will change for some reason (either they're corrected or the......