February 1, 2012February 1, 2012Tech Format a drive in Ubuntu Do you happen to know the device name?Something like /dev/sdb or /dev/hdb have a look at dmesg to see if you can […]
February 1, 2012February 1, 2012Tech Update Icecast 2 Metadata via a URL Yeah just use the same URL he posted but leave out the .ogg for the mount so it looks like this. http://user:pass@server.com:8000/admin/metadata?mount=/mystream&mode=updinfo&song=whatever […]
January 30, 2012January 30, 2012Tech Soundflower For Lion Beta Build that works fine on Lion. sound_flower_lion_1.5.3
January 30, 2012January 30, 2012Tech QuickTime Streaming on Lion Server Apple, in it’s Infinite wisdom, has decided that we no longer need QuickTime Streaming as a function of OS X Server. A […]
January 24, 2012Tech Stop 10.5 and above registering multiple IP’s with DDNS Add the following to the /etc/smb.conf at the end [global] interfaces = eth1 lo bind interfaces only = yes
January 20, 2012January 20, 2012Tech Track an applications usage in Mac OS X with opensnoop Using the command line tool ‘opensnoop’ you can track any Mac applications (or system process) usage of the file system. This is a very […]
January 19, 2012November 20, 2014Tech Stop 10.7 Server running a screensaver on the LoginWindow edit /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist to read <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”> <plist version=”1.0″> <dict> <key>loginWindowIdleTime</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>loginWindowModulePath</key> <string>/System/Library/Screen Savers/Flurry.saver</string> […]
January 17, 2012Tech Add and Remove users from admin group via command line To make a user an admin user do the following, replacing “test” with the users name sudo dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default […]
January 14, 2012October 21, 2012Tech iPod Touch 1G Firmware and Jailbreak iPod 1G 3.1.2 Firmware Spirit.app
January 12, 2012Tech Scripts for getting current track from Spotify for Nicecast Some simple scripts for auto Metadata extraction from spottily into nicecast Spot Scripts
January 12, 2012January 17, 2012Tech Icecast2 Metadata not Displaying in iTunes 10 They lied, it seems that with the 10.5 update I’ve tried with, it does not request metadata for your URL and that […]
January 10, 2012May 10, 2012Tech Get Icecast2 to collect a feed from Nicecast You don’t need to specify the listen.m3u in the config file Just use a slash / <relay> <server>tributary.rave.ac.uk</server> […]
January 10, 2012Tech Installing Apple’s calendarserver on Ubuntu http://www.deanspot.org/content/installing-apples-calendarserver-ubuntu
January 9, 2012January 9, 2012Tech Run Screen Saver Over Login Window As of Snow Leopard, it is now possible to set a screen saver to run over the login window. Unfortunately Apple haven’t […]
January 5, 2012April 23, 2012Tech Problem rotating Postfix Logs Ubuntu http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/problem-rotating-postfix-logs-478744/ Problem rotating Postfix logs