Sick Beard is a (terribly, terribly named) application that downloads TV episodes from newsgroups—as opposed to BitTorrent—moves and renames them, and even fetches artwork and episode information (.NFO files) for use with XBMC. If, for any reason, you want to avoid BitTorrent and go with newsgroups instead, go aheard and install SABnzb+ for downloading purposes, [...]
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Note: This article is an update to the Transmission daemon install instructions which reflects what I did when I rebuilt my media server. I now show the location of the configuration file in the “normal” place, /etc/transmission-daemon/, which did not work for me originally, but worked for me after a fresh install. I also improved [...]
The most popular post on my blog is how to set up the Ubuntu Server firewall via ufw, the Uncomplicated Firewall. I recommend UFW for any standard server, but you might want to move to something more advanced to expand your firewall knowledge, to set up a network gateway, router, or firewall, or to conform [...]
Here are instructions on how to overclock your Motorola Droid. I learned how to do this through various forum posts and a blog posts, some of which were a confusing mess of information and misinformation. My goals is to summarize what I have learned in one place, to act as a more-or-less definitive guide.
Root your Droid. [...]
Today I learned a different way to configure the firewall on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server: the ufw command. UFW stands for “Uncomplicated FireWall,” and it’s just that. It provides a simpler interface to add or remove firewall rules to iptables, the default Linux firewall. It’s installed on Ubuntu Server by default (and has [...]
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading TV episodes via BitTorrent, and doing it using RSS feeds and an automated process. That can’t possibly be true, but I figured that if other people do this, I should be able to figure out how, [...]
Note (10/04/2010): I updated these instructions as part of my media server rebuild project. The new version is clearer and provides a cleaner install.
This article explains how to install, configure, and run Transmission on a headless Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) server. Transmission, specifically transmission-daemon, is a BitTorrent client that can be accessed via a web [...]
