I have been using Windows Backup to backup my windows machine to my server. Suddenly I noticed that it took a very long time to run, and that the output files were humoungus! After researching this a bit, I found that the system image it took incl…
Author: mortencb
XBMC + Windows + MySQL db backend
Have been planning for quite a while to change my xbmc-setup at home to use a MySQL-database as backend for it’s library. This makes it so that everything is in sync between several xbmc-instances you might have at home, like which episodes you ha…
HP “Support”?
I have tried to add my printer to the new fancy service Google Cloud Print, which according to the website should support my printer directly through HP ePrint. But, no go… Google only comes with an error: “Could not get printer information from…
Oracle’s incompetent patch-handling
My last post was about how Oracle decided to move smb.conf and the private-dir for samba without moving the files for you, or even informing you that this might be a good idea… Read more here: http://posterous.mortencb.cx/samba-not-working-after…
Samba not working after Solaris-patching
If you use the built-in Samba in Solaris 10, you might have discovered that after patching Solaris lately, Samba is not working any more. Well this is an easy fix, but I can’t understand why Oracle hasn’t fixed it yet: 1) cp /etc/sfw/private/* /et…
XBMC on an Asrock 330HT BD
I have been using XBMC for quite some years on my classic Xbox, and was extremely satisfied with it. However, the hardware was getting a bit outdated, and it couldn’t play HD f.ex.. So after …
NRK nett-tv i Ubuntu
Kjapp fremgangsmåte for å se NRK sin nett-tv i Ubuntu: 1) Installer repository MediUbuntu: sudo wget –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get –quiet u…
Nostalgy for Thunderbird
I just found the best addon ever for Thunderbird: Nostalgy. It’s so good, I just felt like sharing with the world 🙂 This addon makes is super-easy to copy or move a mail to another folder, without using the mouse. To do this, you have two main mo…
Solaris 10 U9 (09/10) and registration during installation
Not long ago, Oracle released a new version of Solaris, the first after they took over Sun. In this new version, all traces of Sun seems to be gone, and the logo is now of Oracle Solaris. Probably took them so long to release it just to make sure …
Thunderbird: IMAP Mailbox isn’t selectable
There was a problem with Thunderbird that was bugging me for a long while. If I did a search across all my folders, I would always get a pop-up window with the message “not a selectable mailbox” or something like that. Finally today I decided to i…