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Getting Flash to Work Reliably in Linux Web Browsers
Whether it’s Firefox, Chromium or whatever flavour of web browser you chose to use in Linux, the ability to play back the ever prevalent Flash video content in Linux is at best an unreliable...
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Griffith and IMDB plug-ins
If you are using version 0.13 of the excellent Griffith Movie Database in Linux (also available for Windows and OSX) and you use IMDB as the source for movie info and posters, then you may have noticed...
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Choqok – Support for Twitter has been restored!
When Twitter switched off API 1.0 back on the 11th June, the tweets went dark for Choquk users as the application had not been updated in time to support API 1.1. This was due to the original...
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Useful Utilities for Managing MythTV and Mythbuntu
MythTV is an excellent PVR, but on occasions thing can go wrong and it is useful to have a ready arsenal of utilities which you can run when things might go wrong! Before your begin: If you are not...
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Encouraging Linux not to use the SWAP partition
I recently doubled the memory in my eee PC 1005HA netbook running Mint 16 from 1Gb to 2Gb and to try to maintain the 7 hours battery life I get out of it decided to reduce the possibility of it using...
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Dual Booting the HP Pavilion Sleekbook 15 with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10
The HP Sleekbook 15 was launched late in 2012 and if you get the Intel variant it comes with a 3rd generation Core ix processors (Ivy Bridge), offering good battery life for a 15.6″ laptop which is...
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Mythbuntu 12.04LTS to 14.04.1LTS Upgrade
After holding off for five months, testing the point one release on a test MythTV server, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade from Mythbuntu 12.04LTS to 14.04.1 LTS on the basis that this point...
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Installing MiniDLNA extension in NAS4Free
Before you start making any changes to your NAS4Free server, please remember to backup your config.xml file Before you can install MINIDLNA on your NAS4Free server, you need to ensure you have SSH...
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Installing Subsonic 5.0 on NAS4Free 9.2.x Embedded–PART 1
To be able to run Subsonic on a NAS4Free server you need to run it within its own separate environment which is called a Jail. There are different ways of creating a Jail within NAS4Free, this post is...
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Installing Subsonic 5.0 on NAS4Free 9.2.x Embedded–PART 2
Installing Subsonic 5.0 With the Subsonic Jail created, you now need to install Subsonic. These instructions are based on https://lameguy.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/subsonic-install-in-freebsd-jail/ SSH...
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Install And Configure Nagios on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
This is a great blog post on Unixmen about installing Nagios, an open source network and infrastructure software solution, on Ubuntu Server 14.04LTS. Not only does it cover the install but also a basic...
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Installing Madsonic 5.1 the FREE Subsonic alternative on NAS4Free
Why Madsonic rather than Subsonic? Madsonic is a fork of Subsonic the excellent cross platform web based media streamer which is free to use for media streaming but which has some ‘premium features’...
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How to Install VirtualBox Guest Editions in Ubuntu Server 14.04
As I always forget how to do this in Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server, I wrote this brief tutorial to help me remember. It should work with any Debian based distribution. Hopefully you will also find...
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Useful Utilities for Managing MythTV and Mythbuntu
MythTV is an excellent PVR, but on occasions thing can go wrong and it is useful to have a ready arsenal of utilities which you can run when things might go wrong! Before your begin: If you are not...
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Encouraging Linux not to use the SWAP partition
I recently doubled the memory in my eee PC 1005HA netbook running Mint 16 from 1Gb to 2Gb and to try to maintain the 7 hours battery life I get out of it decided to reduce the possibility of it using...
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Dual Booting the HP Pavilion Sleekbook 15 with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10
The HP Sleekbook 15 was launched late in 2012 and if you get the Intel variant it comes with a 3rd generation Core ix processors (Ivy Bridge), offering good battery life for a 15.6″ laptop which is...
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Mini How To… Install and Configure Samba on Ubuntu
I cam across this brief tutorial on Liberian Geek and thought it explained what is sometimes considered a complicated subject very well so I decided to post a shortened extract in this blog,...
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Mini How To…. Installing MINIDLNA in Ubuntu
MINIDLNA is a Universal Plug and Play Media (UPnP) DLNA Streaming Server which can be used to stream locally stored video to DLNA equipped TVs and well as to other PCs using software like XBMC (now...
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