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.

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.”

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

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 saves my home-folder to my external usb-drive.

With this article I’ll describe what I did and why. I’ll have some thoughts in my mind on what the script should do. You’ll see these below. Afterwards I’ll show how I accomplished these things.

I’ve been a longtime fan of conky setups and watched many threads where users post their configurations, but I couldn’t bother writing my own configuration.