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My beets Configuration (Nov. 2016 Edition)
This is mostly for my own convenience. I recently rebuilt a host for managing my beets library, and these are the packages (both deb and pip) that I needed to install for my particular beets config to work. And since that’s not really very helpful to anyone else without my beets config, I’ve included that…
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Fixing Recently Added In XBMC After Re-Importing Music
I did some rejiggering of how XBMC accesses my NAS which required re-importing all my media. The video library sets the ‘date added’ field to the file modification date of a video, which means the ‘Recently Added’ view of my movies is correct, even though everything only just got re-imported. But the music library takes the…
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Netatalk 3.1.3 For Debian Wheezy
I’ve found the netatalk available in Wheezy (version 2.2.2) to be flakey for a while now. Even Jessie only has 2.2.5, while the latest from netatalk.sourceforge.net is 3.1.3. My specific problem was intermittently failing time machine backups from the Macs in my house. Netatalk helpfully includes directions on compiling netatalk from source on Wheezy here, but…
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NFS Exports And XFS’s inode64 Mount Option
I recently turned up a new RAID array and plopped an XFS filesystem down on it. I didn’t bother setting any specific tunings when I created the filesystem. However I couldn’t for the life of me export any subdirectories from the volume over NFS. Local access was fine and I could export via netatalk and…
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FreeBSD 9.2 on Jetway NF9H-525
I wanted a new system to run as my router, so I set out to find a small system with at least three gigabit NICs. I settled on a Jetway NF9H-525 (also referenced as a NF9HQL-525), which is a mini-ITX board geared for networking applications with four onboard gigabit NICs and a dual core atom 1.8Ghz…