I was having some lockup issues with my NAS, and wanted to run Memtest86+.

Thankfully, I have Supermicro motherboard that has IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), which is an out of band way of remotely administering a server.

Supermicro provides a way of mounting a remote image/ISO via a Samba share, so …

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 …

Sooner or later, every system will have a drive failure.

ZFS was designed with this in mind.

I noticed in my /var/log/kern.log file error messages about one of the drives in my ZFS pool.

Dec  8 07:11:17 nas kernel: [738110.398391] ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x80000004 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Dec  8 07:11:17 nas …

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 …

Update: As of May 2023, this is still an issue, so I'm still running Plex server version 1.24.5.

I went to watch a movie using Plex, and an error popped up:

File is unplayable. Color space is not supported …