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Thursday, 24th November 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Linux
Normalize XBMC media volumes with ALSA on-the-fly
Posted by root at 10:03 in Linux
One problem with my ever growing collection of movies and tv is the volume wars between formats. Add in music video downloads from iTunes and Amazon and the variabations become extreme. With a little creative searching I found an addon that can be added to the ALSA sounds system on my Ubuntu installation to this work on-the-fly

Thursday, 5th May 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » The Internet
Configuring BIND9 as a Master/Slave pair
Posted by root at 12:02 in The Internet
For many years I have been using Webmin as means of quickly administrating the three servers I am responsible for. How ever when I was recently asked to setup a number of BIND9 DNS servers in a Master/Slave configuration I set about doing this manually as none of the servers in question had any form of web interface. This is how I setup three DNS servers to work in unison, one master and two slaves.

Saturday, 30th April 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Linux
Non-Root Ubuntu Shutdown
Posted by root at 18:25 in Linux
Many users out there will be using KDE or Gnome for their day-to-day Linux usage, so want have any problems shutting down their PC. How-ever I recently set-up and terminal-only machine as a kinda adhoc NAS device and found there is no easy way of to shutdown or restart the computer with out using the sudo command and entering your password to become root. So this is how I got around the problem, by removing the need for the sudo password.

Saturday, 23rd April 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Linux
Getting Logitech custom mouse buttons working within Linux
Posted by root at 14:26 in Linux
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Having lived in a Windows environment for the past couple of years I've gotten somewhat used to my routines and short cuts, most of which are missing or changed now that I'm 95% Ubuntu. The most notable absentee are all the extra buttons on my Logitech MX Revolution mouse, which I have mapped to a vast array or custom key stroked. So, lest I forget, this is how I have got these custom buttons working correctly.

Friday, 15th April 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Linux
Ubuntu Ubiquity Installer Failing on RAID Remnants
Posted by root at 09:55 in Linux
While trying to install Ubuntu on an old hard drive I started encountering problems using the Ubiquity installer. I was able to complete the installation using the alternative CD with dmraid (SATA or Fake RAID) disabled. After tracing the problem to the old drive having once been used in a BIOS RAID Array I next had to search for a means to removing the RAID information from the drive meta-data with out losing or destroying any data.

Monday, 21st March 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Windows
Permanently Delete a Facebook Account
Posted by root at 15:39 in Windows
Facebook makes it pretty easy to deactivate your account which will temporarily hide your information. However, if you want to permanently remove your information, the 'permanent delete' option is much harder to find. This article will cover two easy ways to erase your Facebook account so you can quit Facebook forever.

Friday, 9th July 2010 Home » Knowledge Base » Windows
Windows, Disable Caps Lock Key
Posted by root at 19:13 in Windows
The caps lock key is one of those remnants of another age of computers, back when people used to shout at each other more often. Since it’s not entirely useful anymore we’ll learn how to disable it. If you aren’t interested in the explanation you can skip to the bottom for the registry files.