Scraping websites with wget

There are many tools out there to download/scrape websites, i.e. curl, httrack, sitesucker, deepvacuum (which is actually a GUI wrapper for wget) and probably more. I find wget to be one of the most useable tools to get an entire website. Make sure to use the option --convert-links,…

Shell Cheatsheet

I am by no means a UNIX poweruser so I routinely find myself searching for various command line tools that may be useful even on Mac OS for specific tasks. This article is something of a cheat sheet for myself where I can collect and annotate different useful shell programs…

Wake on LAN with Plex – my setup!

My Plex setup at home consists of a rather power hungry workstation grade machine with Xeon CPUs running the Plex Media Server, as smaller appliances such as local attached storage boxes are to puny to handle a task so CPU intensive such as video transcoding. So I’m stuck with…