The Crane Has Landed

I’m still having issues with mounting shares over CIFS…well, with unmounting them anyway.

I have a couple of leads though – including this site and the custom script. The script is doing well so far…

I found instructions on how to activate the Wake on LAN on my Shuttle SK41G.

Specially:

Enable WOL in the BIOS. The options for this are in “Power Management Setup”–>”IRQ/Event Activity Detect”. There are two options: “PowerOn by PCI Card” and “Modem Ring Resume”. I’m not sure why, but either option enables WOL when the computer has just been plugged into power, but “PowerOn by PCI Card” is the only one I could get to enable WOL when linux shuts down the computer. (WOL is strange that way…)

Turns out there is some bug – don’t know yet whether it is confirmed as being a Radeon problem or not – that stops fonts from working properly in Jaunty when trying to use MythTV…in any way. You may get all the boxes with no text. Or, you might get just a black rectangle when you try to load the app.

The first step is to ensure you’ve installed msttcorefonts. Then (from this link), workaround by using XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS="1" mythfrontend (or any other myth command).

Can’t wait until they fix this!

After installing the fantastic iPhone skin for XBMC on my Ubuntu machine, annoyingly, http://xbox:8080/iphone doesn’t work because XBMC’s web server expects default.asp to be the first page to go to, and when that’s not there (‘coz the skin uses index.html), it errors out.  And Response.Redirect isn’t known by the server.

Not to worry – the following default.asp page will redirect to the index.html page in less than a second:

When the apt-get gives an error about a missing gpg key, there will be a hex code, and you can use the following (sometimes) to add it:


gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv [KEY]
gpg --export --armor [KEY] | sudo apt-key add -