He has been setting up a home media server. He used PLEX as the media server software running on a Mac Mini, Drobo as a data storage (a fancy disk drive), a new A/V receiver to connect these pieces together along with our TV set, DVD player and speakers. In addition there are totally 3 Ethernet hubs having physical connections to various hardware, and 5 2 terra-byte internal hard drives to the Drobo. He went under the house a couple of times to drill holes into the bedrooms, office and living room to hard wire the ethernet cables to the equipments.
After the hardwares and software were setup, he loaded movies to the hard drive - we have over 400 DVDs, and he was done with half. He has been troubleshooting the quality of the streamed movies, so he went online to join the PLEX user's forum. He had so many problems streaming movies onto the TV. First the video was OK, but the audio didn't come up, then both the video and audio were normal, but they were out of sync. Then the video quality had to be improved. Those were the most frustrating problems, so he often said he had to consult the "Gurus".
Up to last Monday, he posted 15 questions and (self) answers to the forum. So on Monday morning when we were having our coffee, he proudly announced that he was promoted from a "Newbie" to a "Member" on the forum.
"You mean they label your seniority on your posts?" I asked. I think it sounded very much like geeks would do.
"Yes." He explained that after "members", there were "dedicated members", and "developers" and then the "Gurus".
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