I’ve been teaching people about Search Advertising lately, and I use the Lucene project to demonstrate indexing, searching, relevance, ranking, scoring, and boosting. It’s a little tricky to set up with some gotchas with build and runtime setup. I’m posting here so I can tell students where to look. …

I run many virtual machines on KVM and VirtualBox. I typically clone an existing VM that is already set up for the project or service I’m working on. These are the steps I take on KVM on Linux (Ubuntu) hosts to clone and deploy a guest VM. On the host Suspend the VM you’re copying sudo virsh …

In this post, I describe how to migrate media from one Plex server to a new server installation. The official Plex documentation on how to do this leaves out several critical details that I’ll cover here. If you’ve somehow lost the server configuration options from your new install, I’ll show you …