The iPhone and iPod touch are able to ’stream’, open MP4, MP3, AAC, M4V, and M4B files over an http connection. So when visiting a website you are able to click on a url, and QuickTime will start playing your file. This works fine when using a HTTP connection, strange things begin to happen when [...]

My server has lm sensors capabilities, and I’m running Cacti. So it would be nice if these two could be combined. Eric A. Hall has written an article about it, and given some xml config files to get it working.
If you are going to run it on your system I recommend an article about lm_sensors in [...]

File sharing between computers at my home use smb/ samba connection. I also have an Apple Macbook, so why use a protocol by Microsoft? Apple’s Finder supports afp (appletalk) file share protocol by default, curious about it i’ve installed Netatalk on my Debian 4.0 lenny server. You cannot get filesharing working by using the default [...]

Last couple of weeks I’ve been busy on controlling VLC through a socket. After some time I finally figured out how to connect to VLC this way.
VideoLan is a program to mainly play video. Using it’s build in library of codecs it’s a very handy program. Especially in Linux where dependencies can be a real [...]

Another quick Ubuntu tutorial. I use wifi quite a lot so getting the Gnome Keyring message can be a real pain. In this post I explain how to get it removed.
1. Installing software
#aptitude install libpam-keyring
This program allows you to use the default users password and allow a wifi connection.
(you’ll get a message saying the package [...]