vanutsteen.nl => nerds only » Linux http://www.vanutsteen.nl A blog on rails, php, computing, my bass guitar and stuff Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:07:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nginx + sabnzbd + sickbeard + couchpotato + spotweb on my pandaboard http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2012/02/04/nginx-sabnzbd-sickbeard-couchpotato-spotweb-on-my-pandaboard/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2012/02/04/nginx-sabnzbd-sickbeard-couchpotato-spotweb-on-my-pandaboard/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:02:30 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=605 I got Apache- (mpm-itk), sickbeard, sabnzbd, couchpotato and spotweb running on my pandaboard. But apache really used up a lot of resources. So I decided to replace it with nginx. Nginx would be a reverse proxy and communicate via fastcgi with php.

This post describes how to set up Nginx. Not how to install sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato or spotweb on your machine. I assume you know how to do that.

Step 1: install nginx

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  1. leon@panda:~$ sudo apt-get install nginx-light

Step 2: proxy stuff

Add all the important proxy stuff in one file so it can be included later on.

leon@panda:~$ cat /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf

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  1. proxy_redirect off;
  2. proxy_set_header Host $host;
  3. proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  4. proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  5. client_max_body_size 10m;
  6. client_body_buffer_size 128k;
  7. proxy_connect_timeout 90;
  8. proxy_send_timeout 90;
  9. proxy_read_timeout 90;
  10. proxy_buffers 32 4k;
  11.  
  12. allow 192.168.1.0/24;
  13. deny all;

Step 3: set up all the locations

Set up alle the locations (subdirectories on you http server) for sabnzbdplus, sickbeard, couchpotato and spotweb.

The important part from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:

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  1. server {
  2.  
  3. location /sabnzbd {
  4. include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;
  5.  
  6. proxy_pass http://localhost:9090;
  7. }
  8.  
  9. location /sickbeard {
  10. include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;
  11.  
  12. proxy_pass http://localhost:8081;
  13. }
  14.  
  15. location /couchpotato {
  16. include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;
  17.  
  18. proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/;
  19. rewrite ^/couchpotato/?$ /couchpotato/movie/ permanent;
  20. }
  21.  
  22. location /spotweb {
  23. alias /home/leon/src/spotweb/spotweb.git; #not root directive
  24.  
  25. location ~* \.php$ {
  26. fastcgi_pass localhost:9001; #defined in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf
  27. include fastcgi_params;
  28. fastcgi_index index.php;
  29. }
  30. }
  31.  
  32. }

Sorry about the indentation... Anyone recomend a good code plugin for wordpress?

Step 4: setup php

Now we're going to set up php for nginx with php5-fpm. This is a new module and isn't available on older versions of ubuntu. I think it's only available from ubuntu 10.10 and onwards.

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  1. leon@panda:~$ sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

Then edit /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf (in my case). I created another pool for my user ('leon') because I don't want it to run under the user www-data or similar.

cat /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf

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  1. ; Start a new pool named 'leon'.
  2. [leon]
  3. listen = 127.0.0.1:9001
  4. user = leon
  5. group = leon
  6.  
  7. pm = dynamic
  8. pm.start_servers = 1
  9. pm.min_spare_servers = 1
  10. pm.max_spare_servers = 4
  11. pm.max_children = 4

Step 5: Restart everything and admire your work

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  1. leon@panda:~$ sudo service nginx restart
  2. leon@panda:~$ sudo service php5-fmp restart

Footnotes:
I also tried to get it working with chroot = /home/leon in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf but I couldn't get spotweb working with mysql on port 3306. When chrooted you can't access /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock. I'll have to investigate that a bit more.

Also, you could remove /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf if you don't use it (like in my case):

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  1. cd /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/
  2. sudo mv www.conf www.conf.disabled
  3. sudo service php5-fpm restart

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2012/02/04/nginx-sabnzbd-sickbeard-couchpotato-spotweb-on-my-pandaboard/feed/ 0 Access a pandboard with a ‘screen’ serial console http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2012/01/30/access-a-pandboard-with-a-screen-serial-console/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2012/01/30/access-a-pandboard-with-a-screen-serial-console/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:56:58 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=600 Easy as:

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  1. /usr/bin/screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2012/01/30/access-a-pandboard-with-a-screen-serial-console/feed/ 0 Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop and ufw http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/12/24/ubuntu-11-10-on-my-laptop-and-ufw/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/12/24/ubuntu-11-10-on-my-laptop-and-ufw/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:44:31 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=589 I decided on enabling ufw (uncomplicated firewall) on my laptop (you can't be secure enough). Too bad it isn't enabled by default on Ubuntu. So I had to do this:

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  1. sudo ufw enable
  2. sudo ufw default deny
  3. sudo ufw deny "Dovecot POP3"
  4. sudo ufw deny "Dovecot IMAP"
  5. sudo ufw deny "Dovecot Secure IMAP"
  6. sudo ufw deny "Dovecot Secure POP3"
  7. sudo ufw status verbose

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/12/24/ubuntu-11-10-on-my-laptop-and-ufw/feed/ 0 Listing contents of a tar.gz and extracting one specific directory http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/12/09/listing-contents-of-a-tar-gz-and-extracting-one-specific-directory/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/12/09/listing-contents-of-a-tar-gz-and-extracting-one-specific-directory/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:04:03 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=587 PLAIN TEXT
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  1. # tar -ztvf babyhuiscasita.nl.tar.gz |grep sql
  2. # tar -xzvf babyhuiscasita.nl.tar.gz ./.backup/babyhuiscasita.nl_mysql

-t = list
-x = extract

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/12/09/listing-contents-of-a-tar-gz-and-extracting-one-specific-directory/feed/ 0 Asus k53sv & ubuntu power management http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/11/23/asus-k53sv-ubuntu-power-management/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/11/23/asus-k53sv-ubuntu-power-management/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:48:32 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=580 Using my new Asus k53sv with Ubuntu 11.10 resulted in 2 hours of battery time. I know the k53 doesn't have a fancy battery (quite the opposite) but I thought 2 hours was really bad.

With the power regression bug of the Linux kernel in my mind, I started searching. A lot of posts suggested using "pcie_aspm=force". I tried that by editing the grub menu, but that didn't really help (at all). dmesg kept complaining about the bios not letting it so that was a dead end.

Phoronix suggested enabling some power options for the i915 chipset (onboard videocard).

So I changed the following in /etc/default/grub:

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  1. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to:

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  1. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1"

After a reboot the remaining battery time had changed from 2 hours to a little less than 3 hours. That's an improvement of almost 50%!

The only downside was that after a suspend (to memory) the screen gets garbled. But after a ctrl+F1 and ctrl+F8 that's fixed. So I'm actually quite happy know. Thanks Phoronix!

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/11/23/asus-k53sv-ubuntu-power-management/feed/ 0 3 useful route commands http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/11/09/2-useful-route-commands/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/11/09/2-useful-route-commands/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:24:43 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=571 To route an ip address through a (vpn) connection:

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  1. sudo route add -net XX.192.85.XX netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.1.1
  2. sudo route add -net 10.76.122.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1
  3. route -n

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/11/09/2-useful-route-commands/feed/ 0 Sublime Text 2 http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/10/26/sublime-text-2/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/10/26/sublime-text-2/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:36:30 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=562 I installed sublime text on my Ubuntu 11.10 box but I had some troubled loading external python modules:

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  1. loaded 937 snippets
  2. >>> import distutils
  3. Traceback (most recent call last):
  4.   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  5. ImportError: No module named distutils

This is how I solved it:

Edited ~/.local/share/applications/sublime.desktop
Especially this line:

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  1. Exec="/home/leon/Software/bin/sublime" %U

/home/leon/Software/bin/sublime contains this:

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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. cd /usr/lib/python2.7
  3. /home/leon/Software/SublimeText2/sublime_text

Then I installed some excellent plugins:

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/10/26/sublime-text-2/feed/ 0 Chaning the glippy indicator icon http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/10/24/chaning-the-glippy-indicator-icon/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/10/24/chaning-the-glippy-indicator-icon/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:25:26 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=559 Copy the mono paste icon over to ~/.icons/Humanity/actions/22/edit-paste.svg

 

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/10/24/chaning-the-glippy-indicator-icon/feed/ 0 Using rsync with spaces http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/14/using-rsync-with-spaces/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/14/using-rsync-with-spaces/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:51:16 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=539 Something to never forget again:

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  1. rsync --recursive me@remote:'"~/Very complicated path/"' ~/Downloads/

So: single quote, double quote, path, double quote, single quote

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/14/using-rsync-with-spaces/feed/ 0 The continuing story of Zend Studio 5.5.1 http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/06/the-continuing-story-of-zend-studio-5-5-1/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/06/the-continuing-story-of-zend-studio-5-5-1/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:44:18 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=550 Everytime I install a new version of Ubuntu / Linux I'm hoping Zend Studio (the old/good one) will still be working. So I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and also this time I had to install some stuff to get Zend Studio working.

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  1. sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 ia32-libs
  2. ln -s /lib32/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6

And it worked! Know I'm gonna try do update the JRE of the Zend Studio 5.5

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/06/the-continuing-story-of-zend-studio-5-5-1/feed/ 0 ClipIt clipboard manager trayicon under Ubuntu 11.10 http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/06/clipit-clipboard-manager-trayicon-under-ubuntu-11-10/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/06/clipit-clipboard-manager-trayicon-under-ubuntu-11-10/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:19:45 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=534

In ubuntu 11.04 I had an icon at ~/.icons/Humanity/status/22/gtk-paste.svg so I would get a nice systray icon for ClipIt. But ClipIt changed something so now I had to cp the gtk-paste.svg to:

~/.icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/clipit-trayicon.svg

Then logout/login and I had a nice trayicon! Long live clipboard managers. I _really_ wouldn't want to miss them!

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/09/06/clipit-clipboard-manager-trayicon-under-ubuntu-11-10/feed/ 0 Install pcntl (pcntl_fork) on Ubuntu Hardy http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/08/18/install-pcntl-pcntl_fork-on-ubuntu-hardy/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/08/18/install-pcntl-pcntl_fork-on-ubuntu-hardy/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:28:03 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=531 No apt-getting on Hardy :(

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  1. cd ~/
  2. mkdir php
  3. cd php
  4. apt-get source php5
  5. cd php5-*/ext/pcntl
  6. phpize
  7. ./configure
  8. make
  9. no=`phpize | grep "Zend Module Api No" | cut -d : -f2 | awk '{gsub(/^ +| +$/,"")}1'`
  10. cp modules/pcntl.so /usr/lib/php5/$no/
  11. echo "extension=pcntl.so"> /etc/php5/conf.d/pcntl.ini

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/08/18/install-pcntl-pcntl_fork-on-ubuntu-hardy/feed/ 1 Lsyncd http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/08/09/lsyncd/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/08/09/lsyncd/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:50:19 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=525 FreeBSD rsync configI was messing around with some python script to test a spamassassin install. It checks al the mail in the spam folder an see if it is marked as spam. Then it goes through the mail in ham/ and see if it passes as not-spam.

So I'm developing it on my local computer but I wanted to test it on a remote server. Well, actually not that remote because I can touch it from where I'm sitting but that's not the point :) The point was that I needed something to keep the remote version of the sourcecode in sync with the local source. Google to the rescue and I found lsyncd.

A nice little tool to sync two directories with rsync. Too bad it didn't support transfers only via sftp because freebsd (the remote server) doesn't come with rsync installed. So I had to install that also :( Yeah, tough job....

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  1. cd /usr/ports/net/rsync
  2. make config
  3. make install

Then on the local machine:

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  1. lsyncd --no-daemon --delay 1 ~/Workspaces/spamassassin-test/ beastie:~/spamassassin-test/

You have to specify the remote directory or else it will wipe you home folder as I discovered...

After this was done I could go on developing.

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/08/09/lsyncd/feed/ 0 rsync retry (rrsync) http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/05/06/rsync-retry-rrsync/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/05/06/rsync-retry-rrsync/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 06:16:35 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=516 Met onze super-stabiele connectie op het kantoor wil rsync er nog wel eens uitklappen. Dus als je dan 's ochtends kijkt hoe ver 'ie is kom je er achter dat rsync gestopt is. Daarom een rrsync. Gebasseerd op deze link: http://blog.iangreenleaf.com/2009/03/rsync-and-retrying-until-we-get-it.html maar iets beter gemaakt zodat het rsync commando er niet hard in staat:

(Misschien dat de indent niet helemaal goed is)

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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2.  
  3. ### ABOUT
  4. ### Runs rsync, retrying on errors up to a maximum number of tries.
  5. ### Simply edit the rsync line in the script to whatever parameters you need.
  6.  
  7. # Trap interrupts and exit instead of continuing the loop
  8. trap "echo Exited!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM
  9.  
  10. MAX_RETRIES=50
  11. i=0
  12. # Set the initial return value to failure
  13. false
  14.  
  15. while [ $? -ne 0 -a $i -lt $MAX_RETRIES ]
  16. do
  17. i=$(($i+1))
  18. `which rsync` $*
  19. done
  20.  
  21. if [ $i -eq $MAX_RETRIES ]
  22. then
  23. echo "Hit maximum number of retries, giving up."
  24. fi

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/05/06/rsync-retry-rrsync/feed/ 0 Linux printer drivers for the Dell 1710n http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/04/18/linux-printer-drivers-for-the-dell-1710n/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/04/18/linux-printer-drivers-for-the-dell-1710n/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:15:39 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=514 Voila: http://www.cups.org/ppd.php?L483+I80+T+Q

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2011/04/18/linux-printer-drivers-for-the-dell-1710n/feed/ 0 Installing banshee + removing rhythmbox from the soundmenu http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/12/20/installing-banshee-removing-rhythmbox-from-the-soundmenu/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/12/20/installing-banshee-removing-rhythmbox-from-the-soundmenu/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:49:48 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=506 PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/banshee-unstable
  2. sudo aptitude install banshee
  3. rm ~/.cache/indicators/sound/familiar-players-db.keyfile

And don't forget to enable the soundmenu plugin in banshee!

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/12/20/installing-banshee-removing-rhythmbox-from-the-soundmenu/feed/ 0 Removing packages marked rc http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/10/18/removing-packages-marked-rc/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/10/18/removing-packages-marked-rc/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:42:52 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=493 I got an error when building the 2.32 version for ubuntu. Some packages once where installed but got removed. But they still had the status rc.

So I purged them with the help of this blog.

I compiled evolution with the help of a Makefile that I downloaded.

I had to add the "maverick" distro and install some additional packages such as:

  • gobject-introspection
  • autopoint
  • libgdata-dev

I removed the evolution-exchange plugin.

The master branch of gweather required gtk3 so I changed that to: gnome-2.30 (or something)
I had to apply a patch to solve a build error.

Bottom of this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-hackers@gnome.org/msg03863.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list@gnome.org/msg15575.html
]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/10/18/removing-packages-marked-rc/feed/ 0 Don’t wat to type any explanation http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/09/25/dont-wat-to-type-any-explanation/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/09/25/dont-wat-to-type-any-explanation/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:36:36 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=489 PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. [global]
  2. security = ads
  3. realm = LAB.EXAMPLE.COM
  4. password server = 10.0.0.1
  5. # note that workgroup is the 'short' domain name
  6. workgroup = LAB
  7. #       winbind separator = +
  8. idmap uid = 10000-20000
  9. idmap gid = 10000-20000
  10. winbind enum users = yes
  11. winbind enum groups = yes
  12. template homedir = /home/%D/%U
  13. template shell = /bin/bash
  14. client use spnego = yes
  15. client ntlmv2 auth = yes
  16. encrypt passwords = yes
  17. winbind use default domain = yes
  18. restrict anonymous = 2
  19.  
  20. security = ads
  21. realm = TIM-ONLINE.NL
  22. password server = 10.76.122.21
  23. workgroup = TIM-ONLINE
  24. idmap uid = 10000-20000
  25. idmap gid = 10000-20000
  26. winbind enum users = yes
  27. winbind enum groups = yes
  28. template homedir = /home/%D/%U
  29. template shell = /bin/bash
  30. client use spnego = yes
  31. client ntlmv2 auth = yes
  32. encrypt passwords = yes
  33. winbind use default domain = yes
  34. winbind use default domain = yes
  35. winbind refresh tickets = yes
  36.  
  37. netbios name = concepts
  38. netbiosname = concepts
  39.  
  40. #Vista compatibliyy
  41. client schannel = Auto
  42. server schannel = Auto
  43.  
  44. sudo /etc/init.d/winbind stop
  45. sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart
  46. sudo /etc/init.d/winbind start
  47.  
  48. net ads join -U administrator
  49.  
  50. /etc/init.d/winbind restart
  51.  
  52. wbinfo -u
  53. wbinfo -g
  54.  
  55. file: /etc/pam.d/common-session
  56.  
  57. session required pam_unix.so
  58. session required pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022 skel=/etc/skel

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/09/25/dont-wat-to-type-any-explanation/feed/ 0 installing non-free-codecs in Ubuntu “Lucid Lynx” 10.04 http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/03/27/installing-non-free-codecs-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/03/27/installing-non-free-codecs-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:47:32 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=478 A very nice article about installing the non-free-codes (wmv, wma, et cetera) in 10.04!

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/03/27/installing-non-free-codecs-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/feed/ 0 Using a MCE remote with an Antec Veris Fusion case http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/03/07/using-a-mce-remote-with-an-antec-veris-fusion-case/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/03/07/using-a-mce-remote-with-an-antec-veris-fusion-case/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:33:29 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=474 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 :P

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/03/07/using-a-mce-remote-with-an-antec-veris-fusion-case/feed/ 0 Some additional info on “User account has expired” error http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/02/02/some-additional-info-on-user-account-has-expired-error/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/02/02/some-additional-info-on-user-account-has-expired-error/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:59:31 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=472 You have to also use "chage":

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  1. sudo passwd -l root
  2. sudo usermod -p ! root
  3. sudo chage -E-1 root

So my previous post about this subject is now obsolete ;)

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2010/02/02/some-additional-info-on-user-account-has-expired-error/feed/ 0 xbmc setup http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2009/12/02/xbmc-setup/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2009/12/02/xbmc-setup/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:33:38 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=466 htpc_setupI'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.

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  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily
  2. sudo aptitude update
  3. sudo aptitude install firefox-3.6

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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 :cry:

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...

]]> http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2009/11/22/xbmc/feed/ 4 Root crontabs/cronjobs not executing or running http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2009/11/12/root-crontabscronjobs-not-executing-or-running/ http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2009/11/12/root-crontabscronjobs-not-executing-or-running/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:22:16 +0000 LeonB http://www.vanutsteen.nl/?p=443 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:

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  1. sudo passwd -l root
  2. sudo usermod -p ! root

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