Not long ago I came across PeakHour, a tool that lives in the macOS menu bar with a very pleasant look & feel, capable of visualizing your home network traffic in real time. To achieve this it uses the SNMP protocol — you register all devices that support the protocol and it polls them sequentially, displaying the traffic passing through them. …

Notes on configuring PlexConnect on Linux to use Plex with an Apple TV3. I only had to modify the DHCP Server, add 3 redirections with iptables, and configure/start the PlexConnect program. …

In this post I describe how to configure a static IP address on a Linux machine based on Gentoo. Normally this operating system comes pre-configured to load a dynamic IP address via the DHCP protocol. …

In this article I describe how to install Gentoo Linux 3.10.17 (64-bit, with systemd + Gnome 3) in a virtual machine (VM) running on VMWare Fusion 6 for Mac OSX version 10.9 (Mavericks). This should work the same way on a different host, such as Parallels or VMWare Workstation for Windows or Linux. …

I need to increase the time MacOSX waits before putting an external Thunderbolt hard drive to sleep. The default is ten minutes. The command to view the current configuration is: …

For my new 27" iMac (late 2013) I purchased a 32GB memory upgrade. Apple supports installing third-party memory – I bought the upgrade from Crucial.com and one of the things I wanted to do was thoroughly test the memory. …