How to get a working remote for your ASRock ION 330 HT on XBMC-Live
0You know how they say “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
Well… I should have listened.
Yesterday i did a full update of my XBMC-Live box, and with it I got a new kernel version.
This broke my remote, again, which basically makes it unusable as a HTPC.
Here’s how to fix it.
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Posting your website updates to twitter using Zend Framework
0Tweeting your website updates can be done in 4 simple steps
Zend_Search_Lucene Tips
0Found a good article with some tips on implementing Zend Framework’s search engine: Lucene
http://robertelwell.info/blog/zend_search_lucene-tips/
The article has a link to a list of English stop words.
Here you can find stop words for a few other languages as well.
Just open up [language]/stop.txt
Using virtual users to login to a ProFTPD server, using MySQL
0Using MySQL to store your ProFTPD users, makes it much easier to manage them.
Just fire up you favorite MySQL client and add a new user.
Besides making it easy to manage users it also allows for some additional features.
I’ll be showing you how to implement the following:
- Keeping a login counter
- Tracking last login and last update activity
- Creating temporary user accounts
If you need to set up ProFTPD, see my previous post.
Let’s get started
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Setting up a ProFTPD ftp server
1ProFTPD is a highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server.
Some of it’s features include:
- Single main configuration file, with directives and directive groups which are intuitive to any administrator who has ever used the Apache web server.
- Per directory “.ftpaccess” configuration similar to Apache’s “.htaccess”.
- Easy to configure multiple virtual FTP servers and anonymous FTP services.
- Modular design, allowing server to be extended easily with modules. Modules have been written for SQL databases, LDAP servers, SSL/TLS encryption, RADIUS support, etc.
- IPv6 support.
Setting up a samba server to share files with windows
0Here’s a quick guide to setting up samba.
The goal is sharing a general downloads folder, and each user’s home folder.
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Replacing fluxbox with gnome on XBMC Live
2XBMC Live comes with fluxbox pre-installed as the window manager.
When you exit XBMC to console and run ‘startx’ fluxbox will be launched.
It’s pretty basic and I didn’t really dig it, although I didn’t really give it a chance either.
So out with fluxbox and in with gnome, as that’s what I’m familiar with.
This can be accomplished rather easily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-core
This will give you a clean and very basic install of gnome.
My next step was installing firefox.
sudo apt-get install firefox
Then i did a reboot just to be on the safe side
sudo reboot
You’ll notice the machine still boots straight into XBMC, as i desired.
If you want to boot into gnome and start XBMC from there, you’re most likely better off installing the desktop version of unbuntu and installing XBMC on that.
New site
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“What’s this i see now” you might think…
Yes I finally came around to actually putting a working website online.
As you might have noticed I gave in and went with wordpress.
I just couldn’t be bothered writing my own CMS at the moment.
I’m still figuring out how wordpress actually works, so bare with me while I have a go at it.
So yeah, enjoy my useless ramblings!