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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Because I fried my server’s hard drive, I had to reinstall Ubuntu Lucid Server. Of course I didn’t have a Lucid Server disc, and, because physical media is dead to me, I didn’t have any blank CDs to burn. I don’t have any spare thumb drives, either. Therefore, I couldn’t install Lucid server. Instead, I [...]
When I decided that I wanted an easy way to sync files with my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx server, I thought that Canonical’s home-grown solution, Ubuntu One, would be the best option. To my surprise, I learned that Ubuntu One is not supported on the server; it requires a GUI to work.
Fortunately, it is possible [...]
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 [...]
