Ryan's Random Ramblings ← Random notes about technology, (motor)bikes, and whatever's on my mind ← Page 4

Mythbuntu remote config

Dec

28

2008

Somehow I managed to mess up the config for my remote with MythTV today. Luckily it wasn’t too difficult to get it working once I found my original config file. I had created custom remote config file using irrecord a long time ago, and for some reason lirc stopped referencing my config file today rendering ...

CentOS checkinstall

Dec

12

2008

Installing from source makes it very difficult to uninstall or track what’s installed. However, using checkinstall allows you to easily create an RPM (or similar) that can be installed with the system package manager. I installed checkinstall on Centos by downloading from DAG and installing with: rpm -Uvh checkinstall-1.6.0-3.el5.rf.i386.rpm Here is a good tutorial on ...

Virtualbox with host networking

Dec

12

2008

I have been using Virtualbox for awhile with a couple VM’s, but have not had the need for my VM’s to talk to each other so I have simply used the default NAT settings. However, I am now working on a few projects that will require me to allow them to talk to each other ...

New Bike

Dec

11

2008

After taking my GSXR to the track in October, I have had a difficult time riding it on the street as I just kept wanting to go faster. I thought it was difficult to keep it under the limit before going to the track, but the track ruined my street riding experience. Anyway, I have ...

New blog

Dec

11

2008

I got tired of trying to figure out why I couldn’t get Serendipity to look the same across multiple browsers and kept seeing WordPress everywhere I looked. I originally didn’t think I could install WordPress on my free GoDaddy site because there was a charge to install it. This made me believe that the site ...

Minor system tweaks

Nov

22

2008

Here are a few things that I do after every install to get things the way I like them. First is to enable Gmail to be my default mail client. This is done by opening System > Preferences > Default Applications and changing the mail client to Custom and adding this as the command: home/ryan/.open_mailto.sh ...

Installed Ubuntu 8.10

Nov

20

2008

Finally installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop after copying my /home and /etc directories to another PC for safekeeping. I will restore my home directory shortly. The first thing I noticed is that connecting to my hidden and WPA secured wireless network was much easier that previously. I was also reminded how annoying the system ...

Re-installing Serendipity

Nov

16

2008

I was getting very frustrated that I could not get any of the Serendipity themes to work properly in Firefox and decided to install it on my home PC to test. I am hosting on a free (ad supported) GoDaddy linux server and initially chose to use the GoDaddy automatic installation of Serendipity. However, the ...

Virtualbox cloning

Nov

14

2008

It is time for me to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop and I have chosen to do a claan install since I have learned a lot about setting things up since the last time I installed. I will definitely make my home directory a separate partition this time because the part that I struggle ...

First Post

Nov

14

2008

Just set up Serendipity as the blogging software on my hosted website. With a quick look through the settings I see that I have a bit of research to figure out how to make this look good. At the moment it looks very ugly and I don’t know how to change anything. Here’s a screenshot ...