How to get a working remote for your ASRock ION 330 HT on XBMC-Live

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August 11, 2011
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You 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

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July 14, 2011
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Tweeting your website updates can be done in 4 simple steps

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Zend_Search_Lucene Tips

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June 16, 2011
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Found 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

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May 26, 2011
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Using 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

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May 26, 2011
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ProFTPD 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.

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Setting up a samba server to share files with windows

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November 25, 2010
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Here’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

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November 9, 2010
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XBMC 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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November 9, 2010
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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!

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