As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to share the videos folder on my NAS, that is used by Plex.

I've done very basic, simple Samba shares before, simply to quickly transfer files, with little regard to security and/or safeguarding.

I'll give TrueNAS credit, it's GUI makes setting up a Samba …

I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

While doing some troubleshooting on my home lab, I was trying to ping from one device to another device, both configured with IPv6, and only IPv6, addresses.

I was using tcpdump to attempt to capture the ICMP echo-requests (only), which in the IPv4 world, I would use this tcpdump syntax:

sudo tcpdump -nni ens192 …

I really like the look of the Hugo Zzo theme, but I changed the tag cloud that is displayed in the sidebar.

The unmodified sidebar displays the tags, with the number of posts tagged with the tag in question.

What I wanted was a variable font for the tags, with a bigger font for tags that had more posts.

Rather than …

Forcing curl/wget to decompress gzip'd output

I was doing some troubleshooting (of this site no less), and was using the ever-useful curl command to see what the webserver was sending.

However, at first, I got this output:

curl -so index.html https://www.nodinrogers.com # the '-s' is for silent, and the …

Atomic Buffalo Turds, or ABTs as most people call them, are the crack cocaine of the BBQ world. …