Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server lets you transform your computer into a multimedia center. It uses the digital content and sources you have available, such as media files or other multimedia sources. It organizes content into different sections to serve them to clients. …

April 23, 2014 · 2 min
Clean Up PPT

Clean Up PPT

In this post I explain how to create a VBA Macro to remove unused slide masters (patterns) from a PowerPoint file, dedicated to my friend Alfonso. :-) Why do so many masters accumulate in PowerPoint? When we work with presentations from different sources — such as corporate templates, third-party presentations, or when we copy slides from multiple files — PowerPoint automatically imports and keeps all associated design patterns (slide masters), even if we’re not actively using them in our presentation. …

February 20, 2014 · 3 min
Monitoring with PeakHour

Monitoring with PeakHour

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. …

January 24, 2014 · 3 min
PlexConnect on Linux

PlexConnect on Linux

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. …

January 7, 2014 · 7 min
Static IP with Systemd on Gentoo

Static IP with Systemd on Gentoo

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. …

December 23, 2013 · 2 min
Linux on 'Fusion for Mac'

Linux on 'Fusion for Mac'

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. …

December 20, 2013 · 12 min