Tiny Tiny RSS: More open source Google Reader alternatives
I posted about selfoss last week, an open source and self hosted rss reader as alternative to Google Reader. After installing it and posting about it, I stumbled across an even feature richer software: Tiny Tiny RSS. Despite the name, TTRSS really isn’t tiny, it’s features are for example: Very good import from Google Reader [...]
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selfoss: Self hosted alternative to Google Reader
Update: I switched to Tiny Tiny RSS, which already has far more features I wanted, I also blogged about my experiences. Since Google Reader announced that it is going down, lots of articles describing alternatives came up. I wanted to host my own RSS-Reader for some time so this was the final reason to do [...]
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Changed remote layout for my samsung tv with raspbmc
When you connect the Raspberry Pi with Raspbmc to a CEC enabled TV like my Samsung UE40ES6710, it is possible to control it directly with the TV remote without the need for another remote and the quest to find a working IR receiver. Sadly some buttons on the remote were not mapped in a useful [...]
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Switch from Unity to XFCE
I tried using Unity since Ubuntu removed Gnome2. I don’t like Gnome3 so I stuck with Unity for quite some time, hoping I would get used to it. But I did not and bugs that hide the dock depending on uptime (Bug) really got me over the edge to look elsewhere. (I’m ashamed to admit I [...]
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XMBC in my car
Today I went through my things looking for a device with composite video output, since that is (in 2012!) the input the display in my Seat Altea XL understands. The only and yet so fitting thing I could find was my Raspberry Pi. I installed Raspbmc (an XBMC specially prepared for the Raspi) on an [...]
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100% CPU usage with vdr and epgsearch
A few days ago I noticed that my server is at 100% cpu utilization, caused by vdr. I found out that epgsearch, a plugin to automatically schedule recordings, was at fault. To make a long story short, the solution is quite simple: I accidently removed localhost from the /etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf, which caused the plugin problems. Simply [...]
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Sluggish Ubuntu during disk I/O solved
I finally found a solution for the most annoying linux problem I had for years! TL;DR: System is now far more responsible during disk I/O with the lowlatency kernel, source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/131094/comments/390 I have a linux box (waxford) that is used as a home server for all my needs at home (media, file server, dev server, backup, [...]
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Mozilla / Thunderbird Update Service
Thunderbird and Firefox are updating very frequently with their new policy. Since we need a a few special addons for SOGo, it was quite hard to make sure our users didn’t use the automatic update to a newer version. To make the update to Thunderbird 10.0 ESR smoother and make sure we control future updates, [...]
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tsclient no more in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10
If you have to connect to Windows machines from time to time and have been an Ubuntu user like me, you most probably have been using tsclient to connect to it. But what I missed during the upgrade a couple of weeks ago was the fact that the previous Ubuntu standard tsclient has been removed. [...]
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