A nice soul has converted rodfeli’s MoreAdorned Tvixie template for use with Movie Sheet Generator. I have tweaked the template further and I am pretty happy with the results Changes compared to the original Removed effects from cover and added static cover backgroup Changed fonts Added support for media flags – only two since it [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Computer category.
UFW: Blocking outgoing connections
Note: This is known to work for a machine acting as masquerading firewall for an entire network. I wanted to block connections to certain outbound ports. After some trial and errors I found something that works Add the following to /etc/ufw/before.rules: -A ufw-before-forward -s <SOURCE IP> ! -d <LOCAL NET>/24 -p tcp -m tcp –dport [...]
Using ISO-8859-15 encoding with Twirssi
Since I run irssi all the time, packing as many features into it as possible seems like a nice idea. So I use bitlbee to connect to Messenger, Google Talk/Jabber and ICQ and I have been using tircd (Twitter/irc gateway) and tweet.im (Twitter/Google Talk gateway) to connect to Twitter; but none of them works like [...]
AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article updated
It’s been a while since I last looked at my AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article (primarily because I never actually used the application when I worked at IBM). Anyway, at some point AT&T reorganized their FTP server, breaking the download link – The rest of the article is still valid.
Cool tool: namebench
Most users are either using their ISP’s nameservers, running their own recursive nameserver (like me) or using a free alternative like OpenDNS or Google DNS. But which is better? Enter namebench: It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser [...]
Idaho680 TViXiE/Movie Sheet Generator Templates
If you frequent the WDTV community you may know of some pretty fantastic templates for TViXiE and Movie Sheet Generator by Idaho680. Idaho680 is also responsible for a couple of nice OSD mods for WTDV. For reasons not known to the wider public (me included) Idaho680 one day simply announced that he had had enough, [...]
b-rad releases WDLXTV 0.5.8.1
This is more or less a bugfux release for 0.5.8.1 0.5.8.1 * fixed typo preventing S00custom-options from executing * persistent video resume filename correction: video_resume_points_table * dos2unix /conf/net.mounts & /conf/net.config to fix windows editing The 0.5.8.x series also seem to finally do away with the remote controller sluggishness that have plagued us for a long [...]
b-rad releases WDLXTV 0.5.8
WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off the 1.03.01 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. There is no Linux knowledge required to use WDLXTV. I’ve finally found the time time make [...]
Backup and bare-metal restore with rdiff-backup
I know there are lots of different backup tools for Linux and that many people recommend Mondo Rescue but I have never been able to make it work properly (my last attempt resulted in 8 DVD images totaling 31 GB – The source of the backup was 140GB), no doubt my own fault. So I [...]
Setting the correct locale in Karmic
I want to use ISO-8859-15 instead of UTF-8 because I use IRC a lot. For some reason the tip I posted a long time ago does not work in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (the trick was to add the correct locale and then selecting it from GDM). This seems to do the trick. After adding your [...]
