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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Netvault 8 & Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
Today I had to add a new server to our backup. It was the first 64bit installation of Ubuntu (10.04 LTS), because all the other virtual machines were still running 32bit. (Why? I cannot remember.) The backup system is a Netvault from BakBone, running on a Ubuntu 08.04 LTS 32bit. Two things I discovered today, [...]
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Ubuntu, Apparmor and moved home dirs
I got a new HDD recently and linked /home to a new partition mounted on /data/, /data/home/. Just like I did a dozen times before. Now a realized, that my pdf viewer evince (and surely some other programs) aren’t working anymore. Evince crashes with this error message: (evince:22792): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the [...]
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VDR hack: Stream video with synced audio
VDR streams very well with the streamdev-plugin, but only unicast http streams. That is usually no problem, because even 3 streams aren’t nearly too much for a normal 100Mbit home network and I wouldn’t need any more at home. But with the world cup starting tomorrow me and Karin are going to watch some games [...]
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Stream of the World Cup 2010
This year I wanted to stream the FIFA World Cup 2010 (or Weltmeisterschaft 2010 here in Germany ) to a few computers at my work. I chose VLC to do this because of its build in excellent streaming capabilities. There are also more flexible or powerful streaming solutions from VLC like VLM or DVBlast, but [...]
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Asus M4N78-VM and wakeup under linux
I guess if I wait until I’ve completed something, I’ll never blog about stuff like this. So I’ll try to have this here in smaller bites: My new mainboard for the vdr (Asus M4N78-VM) runs great so far with linux, especially at the moment yavdr: HDTV on the DVI worked out of the box. And [...]
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Installation via USB
I just got some new hardware for my new (or overhauled) vdr. (More on that later…) I wanted to try out yavdr and needed a cd drive for the installation. I looked in my basement for an old drive, finally found one in an old IBM Intellistation and got it out of there. Then I [...]
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Samba+Cups with 64bit Windows clients
The new Dell desktops we get at work, don’t come with an Windows XP license anymore. And I guess it’s kinda time to exchange the old XP installations, at least on the new desktops. But now we had the problem, that the current windows cups driver doesn’t support 64bit windows. Solution: Check out the current [...]
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Emacs keybindings in gnome and firefox
For those who love their readline/emacs keybindings, you can have firefox and all gtk applications behave a little bit like that. This article describes how easy you can activate it and what keybindings there are. I recently created a new user profile for myself and missed the keybindings I got used to. To activate it [...]
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uTorrent & wine
utorrent mit wine in einem vncserver Ich habe ja Ewigkeiten meine Finger von wine gelassen. Es ist ein tolles Projekt, wirklich, aber ich habe VMWare installiert und für die meisten Programme ist es einfach besser, vorallem seit es die Virtualisierungsunterstützung in den CPUs gibt. Aber diesmal musste es mal sein, da ich auf meinem kleinen [...]
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