I use Plex to manage and view all my movies, tv shows and music located at my personal home storage system. It consists of two programs:

• the Plex Media Server running on my server
• the Android app running on my Android TV box, connected to my tv in the living …

I accidentally spilled tea on my Microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard (Referal link). After cleaning up the visible mess I continued to use the keyboard as normal as everything still worked. But the next day the keyboard didn’t work anymore. The lights were still flashing but the keys I pressed …

There’s the great FreeNAS jail phpVirtualBox. It lets you run headless VirtualBox-machines on your FreeNAS server, in case you need a different operating system than FreeBSD. I’m using it to run Icinga and Musicbrainz. There’s only one problem: After a server reboot (yes, that happens) the VMs …

Here’s a little how-to on how to use the new syncthing-plugin for your Freenas-server. Syncthing is an opensource file synchronisation client/server application. It’s a great alternative to btsync or Dropbox.

Note: The following text contains passages from my other guide on how to setup Freenas 9.2 …

My post about setting up Freenas with the plugins Couchpotato, Sickbeard and Transmission to stream movies and tv-shows got pretty popular. One point of criticism was the lack of SABnzbd-integration. SABnzbd is a Open Source Binary Newsreader, meaning you can download your favorite movies and tv-shows from the Usenet, where …