One of the (few) things I liked about using Windows in the lab was being able to use bginfo to show basic host information as the background.

For my lab machines, I like being able to see basic information, without a resource-heavy application doing the display.

Conky meets that need.

Highly configurable, with a lot of …

When using Github or a Gitlab instance, I typically use a specific key.

By default however, Gitlab/hub will only try to use the default name of ~/.ssh/id_rsa, and then fail if that key isn't the one specified in your Gitlab/hug profile.

On Github, I added the public key that the corresponding private key is ~/.ssh/git. …

I was looking at drive utilization, and thought that my /mnt/docker/ directory was a bit bigger than I thought it should have been, so I started doing some some digging.

I found that I had a rather large log file from my Gitlab Docker container.

ls -lh *-json.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root 13G Jan 22 13:42 …

I run some Docker containers on my NAS, but ran into a hard drive space issue because of Docker:

sudo du -sh /var/lib/docker
30G	/var/lib/docker

My NAS has a 110Gb SSD for the OS (Ubuntu Server) and 4 drives in a ZFS array for storage.

By default, Docker runs everything from /var/lib/docker, but without doing some …

I had wanted to enable hardware transcoding in Plex for a while, but was under the (incorrect) impression that the CPU in the Docker host didn't support Intel Quick Sync.

Enabling hardware transcoding in Plex

Requirements for using hardware transcoding in Plex:

1. A CPU and/or GPU that supports hardware transcoding.
2. A …

Anyone that uses a lab that includes virtual machines re-uses the same IP addresses quite a bit.

However, when attempting to ssh (or scp or sftp) after re-using the IP address, you run into these errors:

scp tom@testbox.nodinrogers.com
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE …