The Problem
After about a year of enjoying how well my Ubuntu Linux home server downloads, organizes, and serves video files to my TV, I started to think harder about serving up music to devices around the house, and to my phone and/or PC while I’m at work. In the past, I’ve made my music library [...]
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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, [...]
Note: These instructions are an update of a previous post. I updated my instructions to include the download of the transmissionrpc plugin, and to include the cron job definition I use. These instructions apply to FlexGet 1.0r1377.
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading [...]
I prefer to use Samba shares to serve my media files to my front-end player, the WD TV Live. That said, not all front-ends work with Samba shares; my TV and my iPod Touch come to mind as products that work with media servers, not with file shares. There are several media servers on the [...]
I bought a Kindle 2 last month and joined the e-book revolution. I love e-books for various, practical reasons:
1. Books pile up around the house. I don’t have room to keep all of them. Selling, training, giving, or donating them is a pain. Throwing out books makes me sad.
2. Books deteriorate. I typically purchase used books, and [...]
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 [...]
I bought my Motorola Droid the morning it was released to the public. The first app I installed on it was Locale, which promised to automatically set the phone’s volume, wifi settings, and so on, based on its current location. I thought this was a great idea: I could automatically silence my phone at the [...]
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 [...]
