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Mac Server Reliability Scripts

Posted on 2025-02-042025-02-25 by Mark Boszko

NOTE: This is based on a GitHub repo at https://github.com/swizzlevixen/Mac-Server-Reliability which may contain updates from what is written here. Please Check my GitHub, or comment here, if you encounter any errors. This is a collection of helpful notes, and a suite of scripts written for my Mac mini M2 server, that help with server reliability,…

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Managing Home Media

Posted on 2023-08-032023-08-07 by Mark Boszko

As companies start to decide that sometimes it is better for them to remove access to media that you have “purchased” — I thought it would be good to share how I manage my media at home. This is a living document that I plan to update with more details and better techniques, as I…

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Reverse proxy a domain to a Docker container on Synology NAS DSM

Posted on 2023-01-272023-01-27 by Mark Boszko

This is more to remind myself of how to do it — it may not be 100% complete, or exactly fit your needs! I’m going to assume that you have the Docker package installed, and a Docker container running on the Synology NAS, serving http content on a port that is not 80 or 443….

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Uptown’s Dream Screen

Posted on 2021-04-042021-04-04 by Mark Boszko

I used to live near DC and went to the Uptown theatre there a lot (sadly, now closed, due to the pandemic). I just came across this clipping I saved while sorting and tossing old papers. It’s from Sunday, January 29, 1995, in The Washington Post, talking about how their old vertical-strip Cinerama screen was…

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Limit Handbrake CPU usage under Windows

Posted on 2020-07-152021-04-03 by Mark Boszko

I’ve recently transitioned to using a PC for all of my media transcoding and hosting Plex, so I can keep my Macs unburdened and ready for real work. The only thing is — when Handbrake is compressing something, it pegs all of my CPU cores at 100%, leaving not much left for Plex Media Server…

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Looking for Work

Posted on 2020-03-312020-04-28 by Mark Boszko

For the first time in nearly seven years, I am now unemployed. Yesterday, along with several other people, I was laid off from my job at The Omni Group, and I’m now looking for new work. UPDATE: Here is a link to my resume PDF and my complete CV. First of all, thank you to…

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Points of Interest

Posted on 2018-09-262018-09-28 by Mark Boszko

I’ve always been interested in the stories behind designs, and one particular point of interest is in the development of the original Apple Macintosh computer, well chronicled in the website Folklore.org, and eventually collected in the book Revolution in the Valley. Susan Kare, designer of the original Macintosh icons, says she based the design of…

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Mark Boszko

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