Casper's Life
One of the thing when one buy a wireless only computer like an Apple MacBook Air (USB 100mb/s sucks), is that the next thing one start looking at is to get 802.11n, which currently is the fastest option for wireless. There are many options out there, some of them good, some less. I decided to [...]
I have an VMware ESXI 5 which I used for testing things, but I don’t want it to run all the time, and using the vSphere Client to stop all the VM’s and then stop the ESXI server is a bit too much effort.
So I figured out how to do it from the [...]
I’ve been having fun upgrading, or should one say migrating to RHEL6 (Scientific Linux 6.1). As run KVM (Virtualization) I have a bridge running for my VM to connect to the network.
Now I suddenly noticed that IPv6 was enable on my ‘eth0′ which is part of the bridge, this should not happen as [...]
If you as me is running OSX Lion, and find that Preview is incredible slow to start, and for some reason it also load all the previous seen files, well then welcome to the new “Resume” feature which Apple have introduced.
I like it for some programs, but with Preview it slowed it down so [...]
As some might have noticed, I have a “Recent Books” in my sidebar, and some might have wonders how it got there, well some time ago I decided to get a bit more handle on my books, as I started buying duplicates. Due to getting a license to DeliciousLibrary fairly cheap via
We all like RAID, and with Linux it’s a pretty cheap way to get enough space to store ones DVD/Music collection, I run a fairly large RAID5 which is working without a hiccup, but much to my surprise I was checking my /proc/mdstat and saw:
md5 : active raid5 sdh1[4] sdg1[3] sdf1[2] sde1[1] sdd1[0]
[...]
One small issue one can run into after installing forked-daapd is that using the iPhone/iPad remote one cannot play any songs.
Looking in /var/opt/forked-daapd.log one will see something:
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] laudio: Could not open playback device: No such file or directory
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] player: Could not open local audio
[2011-04-14 11:24:59] dacp: [...]
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