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by DunkB
February 8th, 2012, 7:18 pm
Forum: Software - Applications and Operating Systems
Topic: Virtual Box
Replies: 3
Views: 1805

Virtual Box

Hello All, It's time to have a play, AGAIN!! I am thinking of installing Virtual Box and moving most of my media server software to within the guest. I have toyed with the idea of virtualisation before and even followed Ian's KVM tutorial :thumbup: , but I always got stuck at the same 2 problems. 1)...
by DunkB
February 4th, 2012, 4:14 pm
Forum: Software - Applications and Operating Systems
Topic: Major Malfunction
Replies: 1
Views: 1283

Re: Major Malfunction

Hi SirScott I had a similar error yesterday when I ran sudo easy_install --upgrade Flexget Which had up until then upgraded to the latest revision with no problem at all. The recommended course of action on the Flexget website is to run.. rm /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/FlexGet*.egg to cle...
by DunkB
January 27th, 2012, 8:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Raspberry Pi
Replies: 47
Views: 239576

Re: Raspberry Pi

I was thinking of setting up as RaspPi VM to play with while I wait.
I've never used XBMC which seems to be the front end of choice at the moment. Have you had any experience? Is it just a matter of pointing it to my media files on the server?

Dunk
by DunkB
January 21st, 2012, 8:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Lean to code in 2012
Replies: 1
Views: 1947

Lean to code in 2012

Morning all

If you are looking for a challenge for 2012 why not learn to code. Join http://www.codecademy.com. Free to join, weekly lessons and a new skill at the end. What more could you want?

I'm slightly addicted :oops:

Dunk :ugeek:
by DunkB
January 15th, 2012, 10:29 am
Forum: Tips 'n' Tricks
Topic: External IP script
Replies: 4
Views: 23880

External IP script

Hi all Just a quick tip/trick I thought I'd pass on. As most of us don't have an ISP kind enough to supply us with a static IP the question of how to SSH to our server from outside the home network poses a problem. While there are services that provide DDNS like DynDNS.org they charge money and I'm ...
by DunkB
January 8th, 2012, 8:58 am
Forum: Software - Applications and Operating Systems
Topic: /dev/ uuid
Replies: 2
Views: 1417

Re: /dev/ uuid

Hi Peter

check out this thread http://forum.havetheknowhow.com/viewtop ... 9&start=10

Hope this helps

Dunk :)
by DunkB
January 7th, 2012, 7:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Raspberry Pi
Replies: 47
Views: 239576

Re: Raspberry Pi

Yeah, that's definatly a thread I need to keep an eye on.
A Raspberry Pi, a media remote and we are good to go.

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
by DunkB
January 4th, 2012, 9:17 pm
Forum: Tips 'n' Tricks
Topic: Google Apps
Replies: 1
Views: 16426

Google Apps

Hello All After Ians trick with gMail the other day I thought it might be an idea to remind (or inform) people of Google apps http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en-GB/group/index.html . If you own your own domain it's a great way of making it work for you with out spending more money. After associating...
by DunkB
January 4th, 2012, 7:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Raspberry Pi
Replies: 47
Views: 239576

Re: Raspberry Pi

My favourite is the twitter comment that someone should bid £3141.59 for it.
by DunkB
January 1st, 2012, 9:19 pm
Forum: Software - Applications and Operating Systems
Topic: Cron doesn't appear to be running Flexget
Replies: 8
Views: 3964

Re: Cron doesn't appear to be running Flexget

Hi SirScot I had the same issue when I was setting up Flexget, once I'd stop it spitting it's dummy how do you check it's actually working? I added a series I had no interest in but for which I knew their were episodes available in my chosen the repository. Wait an hour then check deluge you should ...