Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

My experience with Plex and an HD HomeRun on Suddenlink

Now that Plex supports watching LiveTV and DVR that works with the HD Homerun, I looked into what was available to me in my area. Since I don’t live in a major city, the over the air options are quite limited, as in 4 broadcasters including a PBS affiliate. Since I was already a Suddenlink customer through their internet service, I looked at their TV offerings. Essentially I can add their SL200 for ~$35 more than the internet service alone(This was a blatant lie!

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, June 1, 2017

Docker in FreeNAS 9.10 (Part 2)

In my previous post, I outlined how to use docker within FreeNAS 9.10. While FreeNAS 10 adds docker support as a first class citizen, most of the functionality is available in FreeNAS 9.10. The primary piece that is missing from FreeNAS 9.10 is the 9pfs (virtFS) support in bhyve. I mentioned that I share media and other pieces via CIFS to the VM and that databases should be local. Now I’ll describe how exactly I deal with the configuration.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Docker in FreeNAS 9.10

As some may know, Docker is being added to FreeNAS 10, but it is still in beta and not for production use. However, if you have upgraded to FreeNAS 9.10, you can use Docker. It’s just not integrated into the UI and you must do everything from the command-line. IOHyve First iohyve must be setup. FreeNAS 9.10 comes with iohyve already but it must be configured. As root, run: iohyve setup pool=<storage pool> kmod=1 net=<NIC> In my case I set storage pool to my main pool and NIC to my primary NIC (igb0).

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, January 12, 2017

Split Home Networks

Lately there have been numerous reports of devices bought for the home rife with security vulnerabilities which expose the user’s home network to external attacks. For example, Baby Monitors are often constructed in the cheapest manner possible by those who have no real understanding of security. Sometimes these companies demand that a bad review on Amazon pointing out such vulnerabilities be turned into a good one. The list goes on and on.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, August 18, 2016

iTunes Music Skipping in Background

In one of the El Capitan updates, I had issues where iTunes playback would start skipping when the CPU was under heavy load. I noticed that if I brought iTunes to the foreground, the skipping stopped, but if the heavy CPU load application was in the foreground, it resumed. Being a developer, this meant that my music would continually skip whenever I compiled something, which is a common occurrence. I was able to conclude that App Nap was the culprit and disabled it.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, June 2, 2016