This tutorial applies to servers preconfigured with LAMP (Debian 6, Apache 2, Mysql 5, PHP 5.2). If the LAMP stack is not installed, it’s pretty straightforward to install the respective components via apt-get install. Since the image I’m using has Webmin preinstalled I use it to quickly get started. Continue reading
I’ve tried to find the lyrics and origins to the final piece of the soundtrack for Valkyria, composed by John Ottman. “They’ll remember you” is a stunningly beautiful modern choir piece with references to both Mozart and Monteverdi. Continue reading
To automatically mount a specified volume each time you boot into Fedora, edit the following file:
[bash]/etc/fstab[/bash]
Add the following line at the end depending on volume and mount point:
[bash]/dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/[/bash]
Save and exit.
(If the volume is formatted with NTFS, use the following syntax instead)
[bash]/dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/ ntfs-3g defaults 0 0[/bash]
How to mount a drive or volume to be accessible by Amahi home server:
First you need to find out what the volume is called within Fedora. To list the drives recognized by the system type the following in terminal:
[bash]ls /dev/sd*[/bash]
Let’s say you want to mount the volume named “sdb1”, then use:
[bash]mount /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/myvolume[/bash]
If the volume you want to mount is an NTFS drive, instead use:
[bash]mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/myvolume[/bash]
Note that you may need to change priviligies on the mounted drive if you want to download directly from Amahi or copy to it over the network.
When you’ve mounted the volume in /var/files/ you only need to specify the name you gave it to add it as a share in Amahi share settings.
If you want to mount the volume automatically when you boot, read Automount a volume in Fedora.
Here’s how to automatically login to a Fedora Linux box. Useful when you run a headless machine as home server, in my case Amahi Home Server.
Fire up terminal, locally or via SSH and log in as root.
Edit the GDM config file by following file by typing:
[bash]nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf[/bash]
Add the following to the end of the file:
[bash]
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=yourusername
TimedLogin=yourusername
TimedLoginDelay=0
[/bash]
Save and exit. On reboot, the machine should autologin with the username you specified.
After watching movies on the 13″ for a couple of years I got meself a Samsung. Not the grotesque wallpaper sized one but still pretty ok-large. So how and what do I feed it with? Mini-DVI+the great free media center Plex seemed like a reasonable setup for a while. If you want to chain your laptop to the TV set or using a MacMini, that is.
So I went fishing for a cheap setup for my new (HD-)TV needs. Since I consume at least 10 hours worth of podcasting every week there was a small chance I would run across something useful. And then the FLOSS Weekly guys interviewed the project manager for Amahi Home Server.
Quick look:
But when I got it running it’s doing just fine. I’ll post some quick terminal guide how-tos of things I had to do in order to mount drives, autologin on boot etc.
Helleu. I have not been gone, just totally off the radar – on the blog at least. Hope to keep this place sort of updated from now on.
Everything should be in the cloud right? When Adobe recently launched Adobe Photoshop Express, a slimmed down version of PS for the web I felt a wee bit skeptical. The notion of online media editing isn’t exactly new and fresh in 2008, but let me tell you what’s nice:
API skillz.
Support for editing and exporting photos and video to social networks and photo sharing sites is found in iPhoto (Facebook, Picasa etc – only by 3rd party though). The thing with PS Express is that you’re allowed to import your external pics from within the web app. After finishing them up with a basic set of tools much like those found in iPhoto or Picasa you simply send them back to your site of choice. As of today Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa Web album is supported. Flickr should be there soon as well.
Annoyance warning: PS Express puts a caption on its own on all photos you upload back to Facebook. Meh.
Nu är den släppt! Ett fint litet framsteg förutom den bästa videokodningen just nu, är att man nu kan implementera även flashkodning med H.264 i hårdvarukodare.
Adobe Flash Player 9 now includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities. The latest update also features hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced, full-screen video playback for high-resolution viewing across major operating systems and browsers.
Länkar:
Pressrelease – adobe.com
Skickade en fråga om tillförlitligheten hos S3 och JungleDisk till Leo Laporte och Steve Gibson på podcasten Security Now häromdagen. De svarade på min fråga och återkommer med ett helt program i ämnet senare i höst. Paranoide Gibson måste ju sniffa sina packets och gräva djuupt innan han vågar lita på någon eller något…
http://twit.tv/sn114
(min fråga 38:50 in i programmet)