I needed a script that checks:

• whether a cronjob ran at its determined date (that means it runs regularly)
• if the cronjob ran successfully

It should also be monitor-able via Nagios. That means, it should provide a meaningful output for when something went wrong with the cronjob, e.g. “CRITICAL …

I’m going to describe how to set up Freenas with the popular plugins couchpotato, sickBeard or sickRage and transmission to use them for downloading movies or series and streaming them via DLNA as well as mounting the storage on Linux.

This post is also available in German!

I integrated …

Today I want to present my Tiny Tiny RSS-installation, running on my own VPS.

tt-rss is “an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.”

Preface …

Via Allan McRae I found out about YoutubeCenter, a userscript and/or add-on for Firefox and Chrome.

This script come with many handy features that make the Youtube experience way nicer!

Some really nice features I used are:

• Remove ads
• Resize the player
• Buffer the video even when paused
• Provides …

UPDATE: I rewrote the whole script. You can find it here!

I wanted to get into Python recently and to have a reason to actually learn the language, I thought to myself, why not replace the bash-scripts I use on my private computer. I started with my backup script, that …