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http://www.nicksays.co.uk/2010/03/fool-proof-magento-upgrades/

As easy as: sudo port install macvim +python

A very nice article about installing the non-free-codes (wmv, wma, et cetera) in 10.04!

I got a MCE remote and wanted to use it with my Antecct Fusion case. It has a remote of it's own but it uses a stick for navigating and that really doesn't work.

I found a great post about how to use the mce remote.

I only had to modprobe the lirc_imon module with some parameter (lirc_imon ir_protocol=1) and change the xbmc configuration. After that it worked perfectly!

Only my xbox 360 is right next to my media pc. So when I press a button my xbox 360 start

I tried to disable the ir censor of my xbox but I couldn't find and option. So I covered it with some tape

You have to also use "chage":

So my previous post about this subject is now obsolete

I've managed to get XBMC running (and good!). It took me a while to get everything to my liking. Almost everything works perfectly! Except sound is still a bit of a hassle. Linux (with pulseaudio) only sends analog sound through my s/pdif connection (aaarghh... forgot to draw in the schema ->) and not digital.

Maybe I'll switch back to alsa. But then again: maybe not. It's only connected to an old Yamaha amplifier I had laying around so I don't think I'll hear the difference.

I have a draft blog post in which I explain how I got everything running on Ubuntu 9.10. I'll try and publish it as soon as I can And then I'll update the schema too.

As easy as:

In reply to my last article about media centers.
Well, I installed xbmc this weekend and actually it kinda sucked. Installation was a breeze: kudos for that. But when I ran it, it hogged all of the cpu time of the second core. 100% constantly.

I've got an Ati hd3200 integrated on the motherboard and in combination with XBMC I believe that's a bad choice. I've read numerous threads about people having the same problem as me I'm quite upset with this. I don't blame the XBMC developers, they do a fabulous job, but still it sucks.

I hope that in the next couple of weeks this problem is solved but I don't think it will. I'm now looking for an alternative but XBMC just looks so polished.... It's too bad it's not usable for me

I'm now downloading the live cd of XBMC and see if that works 'cause I dont know who to blame: me, ati, xbmc or ubuntu...

Well as the title says: the cronjobs of the root user didn't run on one of my servers (MY MACHINE!) and it took a while to figure out why they weren't running. It ended up to be something with locking the root account. These steps fixed the problem:

One of our Joomla! sites was "hacked" with some stupid script and the fuckers put a iframe in every page

But with sed that was fixed in a matter of seconds:

OR:

Searching for hacked sites:

Drawback is that it doesn't removed the inserted newline :S Because it isn't the design of sed (wha-evah).
Also it doesn't handle files with spaces in the filename. But that's only minor because in my case I didn't have any php or html files with spaces in them