Category: solutions

Squeezebox with Plexamp – Announcing Squeeze Plex Hub

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 5. October 2025 Comments: 1

The problem and the idea Back in 2001, a small company called Slim Devices launched the first Squeezebox players — among the very first network and multi room music players. They were truly ahead of their time, bringing streaming audio into homes years before it became mainstream. When Logitech acquired Slim Devices, they continued the product line for a while, but eventually discontinued the last Squeezebox in 2014. Fortunately, the story didn’t end there. The required server software,…

Extend the lifetime of Brother MFC ink cartridges

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 31. December 2016 Comments: 0

To let your printer think the ink level is still sufficient for its services, you can trick the “light sensor” with black electrician’s tape on the ink cartridge: Done, the error message should fade away and you’re able to use the printer again. Note: In my case there was still quite some ink the cartridge to allow “ok” prints. You should replace the empty cartridge soon to prevent a clogged print head,…

Log management with Graylog & Fluentd

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 16. October 2015 Comments: 2

A perfect match -Graylog & Fluentd In the following post, I’ll describe how to quickly setup a docker multi container environment running Graylog and Fluentd. The result is a comprehensive log management platform that is able to collect log data from distributed applications. Graylog? Think of Graylog as an open source alternative to Splunk Enterprise, a log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing both structured and unstructured data . Furthermore,…