Setting up mediatomb in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Linux
Having recently bought a WDTV HD Live to replace my Xbox (with XBMC) I decided to look into setting up a UPnP service on my Ubuntu headless server.
After reading around a bit, I firstly tried uShare but didn’t find it very flexible. I finally settled on MediaTomb as I liked the look of the JavaScript import scripts that can be written. I started getting setup so checked out the MediaTomb wiki and a few online tutorials, but struggled to get MediaTomb to work. Either I had missed something, or the articles weren’t 100% clear. Here are the steps I took to get it working…
Max Value HomePlug matching problem… Fixed
// January 29th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Linux, Windows
For Christmas (2009) I was given a pair of Max Value 200Mbps HomePlug units, presumably from Amazon. Out of the box they worked, and still do, perfectly. I was so impressed by them, I quickly ordered another pair from Amazon within a few weeks, and this is where my problem began.
Rebuilding Grub2 grub.cfg from Ubuntu Live CD
// January 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Linux
After installing Windows 7 the other day I lost my Grub install. Not a problem, in the past I’ve used my Super Grub Disc to repair it.
This didn’t work for me though (may be my disc is a bit date, or maybe it doesn’t support grub 2 just yet). Instead I booted up using my Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD. I could easily re-install grub using the “grub-install” command.
Checkgmail not working in Ubuntu?
// October 16th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Linux
Over the last few weeks checkgmail has not been working. This is quite common given Google probably changing things around. So it has happened in the past, and requires and update to be pushed out. Unfortunately, via the repositories this is quite a slow affair. There is a quicker solution though…
- Open up a terminal window
- Type “checkgmail -update”
- All fixed!
Very simple to do. I hadn’t realised this before, but checkgmail has its own updater and it’s very easy to use. So if you are having problems, it’s probably worth trying the above.
The Importance of Being There at Conception (of a Feature)
// October 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Programming, Work
I’ll use a slightly crude example to get across the point of this post. It’s maybe not the best comparison, but bare with me. Instead of “feature” think of “child” in relation to conception.
Let’s say you weren’t there from conception of your child. In fact the first 15 years of the child’s life you missed out on. If you were suddenly brought into the picture, how clean a transition would that be? Would you be able to make up for the lost years? Or have as much impact/bearing in the child’s life as you’d like? It’s a difficult situation. Are you able to connect with the child as well as if you’d been involved since conception?
