Install Subsonic XBMC Frodo AddOn

Subsonic to the world!! After a little searching I found a SubSonic AddOn that works with XBMC Frodo. I am running the nightly builds for Windows and ATV2. As per this forum post: I find XBMC to be the best experience on a Mac or PC for interacting with my remote Subsonic server. I wanted to try it with the pre-Alpha builds of XBMC Frodo to take advantage of the new audio engine. The Subsonic script failed and the guy who wrote it (t0mm0) seems to have disappeared. I debugged and corrected it (very easy) and for those of you who are interested here’s a link to the new files: ...

November 19, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

Install: utorrent on OMV

My quick and dirty walk through of how to get utorrent installed and configured on Openmediavault, a Debian based network attached storage solution (NAS). I used this package. wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24928836/utserver/deb/utorrent-server_3.0-25053_i386.deb dpkg -i utorrent*.deb point your browser to: http://omv-ip:8080/gui The default is: 8080 The user name is admin with no password. Additionally you will have to add utserver to the machice startup: update-rc.d utserver defaults Reference utorrent.com forums

November 19, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

VOIP Stuff

VOIP is an area that I have a strong interest. Asterisk and Freeswitch are two of my favorite pieces of software and I am always looking for ways in which they can save me some money. I have not been able to get my hands on low power hardware which has always been a deal breaker for me. With the cost of electricity being what it is in Jamaica leaving your gear on 24×7 is just not an option. ...

August 1, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

Windows 7 install from USB External HDD

Who needs CDROM drives? Can I tell you that burning a DVD/CD is the devil’s work! I always prefer using a USB Flash or External USB drive. To prepare a USB disk for Windows 7 you’ll need to make it bootable by using DISKPART. Format the drive by executing the following commands one by one . Make sure you replace Disk 1 with proper Disk number . select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=NTFS QUICK assign exit Copy contents of Windows install media to USB device. References ...

July 30, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

Olympic Viewing, XBMC and BBC iPlayer

CVMTV’s Olympic coverage has been less than stellar and that is putting it in a very nice way. I’ve spent the first two days of the Olympics trying to find out what was possible in terms of alternate video sources to watch events, both live and recorded. I tend to like the coverage of BBC. They usually have excellent commentators who are very knowledgeable on the athletes and their respective events, unlike what passes for commentary on NBC (US). BBC iPlayer was my first choice to watch the opening ceremony. To access iPlayer you have to reside in the UK or be connecting from a UK IP address through the use of a VPN. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a technology used to access a network, securely over a public network such as the internet. It is usually used to access work or home networks remotely. ...

July 30, 2012 · 2 min · Shane Greaves

Howto Boot to console, Ubuntu 9.10

This was harder to accomplish that I thought it would be. I am accustomed to doing this by changing the runlevel in /etc/init.d/inittab. With upstart this has become very foggy for me. Thanks to this Link, I was able to get this done. Step1:Just edit /etc/default/grub with your favourite editor: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub find out this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” change it to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text” Step2: Update grub and done! sudo update-grub

May 23, 2010 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

Troubleshooting PXE Boot Notes

The machine on 192.168.1.153 is my server running Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. I installed the tftp-hpa package: aptitude install tftpd-hpa Now the files were in place so I needed to tell inetd.conf to find the files in that folder, so edited /etc/inetd.conf. Source

November 20, 2009 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

PXE Booting with DD-WRT | TFTP Option

Configure DD WRT The following settings needs to be a dded under: Services->Additional DNSMasq Options Code: dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,,192.168.230.1 Configure tftp In this case we are using tftp-hpa Code: apt-get install tftpd-hpa mcedit /etc/default/tftpd-hpa TFTP_USERNAME="tftp" TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp" TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69" TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure" References Source

November 20, 2009 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

DDWRT Access To Modem Configuration

The way to follow Eventually replace the 10.0.0.x by your addresses Go to Administration -> Diagnostics and click on run Enter ifconfig vlan1:1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0<br></br> and click on Save Startup Enter /usr/sbin/iptables -I POSTROUTING -t nat -o vlan1 -d 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE<br></br> and click on Save Firewall Source

November 20, 2009 · 1 min · Shane Greaves

DDWRT Debugging PPPOE Problems

Debugging PPPoE Problems PPPoE is used mainly for handling connections via Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL). Remember: The WRT54G / WRT54GS doesn’t have an integrated DSL modem, so you need an external one. Cabling After connecting the WRT54G(S) router to the DSL modem on the port labeled Internet make sure that the Internet LED at the front panel is lit. If not, check cabling. Reboot your DSL modem after you connected the router to it. ...

November 20, 2009 · 2 min · Shane Greaves