Simon Holmbring

Manipulating “date added” in the Plex Media Server Database

So I noticed a quite annoying thing in my Plex Server, some items were always marked as “recently added”. As usual, I went online and searched for a solution. Some posts suggested to wipe the library and start over, while some posts suggested that doing that doesn’t fix the problem as the “bug” seems to be that when an initial...

KVM VM Image Crash

So, something bad happened! My Virtual Machine running on my NAS crashed. And it looked like this… 2020-05-08T19:51:09.582896Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/share/Storage/VM/Windows 10 Enterprise/Windows 10 Enterprise.img,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=writeback: qcow2: Image is corrupt; cannot be opened read/write So I did what I normally do, I started googling, and found a bunch of old articles saying that I had to install some “nbd” module in...

HDMI + MacBook = No Network

I’ve always been one of those guys, saying that “why do you need a fancy HDMI-cable, it’s a digital signal, either it works or it doesn’t work, the signal will not be affected by interference in the same way as an analog signal”. While this is true, a digital connection like HDMI comes with other challenges like, versioning. It turns...

AWS Glacier!

Hard drives will fail! Manufacturers of hard drives like to boast about “MTBF” (Mean Time Between Failures) and “AFR” (Annualized Failure Rate) rates that indicates that the drive would last anywhere from 300 000 hours (~34 years) to having a likely hood of failing during a year as low as 0,8%. But real life tests, performed by companies like BackBlaze show...

Three finger drag! MacOS Trackpad

Hi future me (and anyone else who stumbled upon this page), this is how you turned on three finger drag: Yes I know, you thought it was under “Trackpad” in Preferences, but Apple hide this setting under Accessibility.

MacOS Terminal UTF-8 Issue

Since I only tend to do this once every time I get a new MacBook, I decided to document the procedure here so I don’t have to google it every time!

No ports showing in LibreNMS for Fortigate Firewalls

After looking at GitHub for a solution I consulted the very helpful people in #LibreNMS at FreeNode (IRC) and got this solution. Add this line in you config.php: And guess what, it works! Why does LibreNMS behave like this? Well, it’s because LibreNMS assumes that there should be a “ifdescr” in the SNMP answer from the Firewall, while Fortigate has...

Remove all old kernels on your Ubuntu

When you login to your system and /boot is full, don’t panic! Run this command and lean back, take a cup of coffee and relax, breath! When it’s done, it’s a good idéa to: Once again, lean back, take a cup of coffee, find your inner zen! Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu

Backup your VPS to Google Drive

If you only have a small amount of data to backup, Google Drive is actually quite a decent alternative, but you will need to install a few tools to you VPS. With the tool rclone (rsync for cloud), you can upload your files to Google Drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox and a few more. The procedure is almost the same no...