ubuntu share music library

Posted on 27-Apr-2011 by gare

Ubuntu offers several methods to share your music library over the network:

Easiest method as of 10.10 is to use the default Rhythmbox Music Player:

1. Edit > Plugins to bring up the Configure Plugins Dialog:

Enable DAAP Music Sharing plugin to share over the network

2. DAAP Music Sharing plugin. There is a Configure option that brings up a dialog:
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3. Profit.

Other Options
Banshee music player is / will also be developing a DAAP Music Sharing plugin.  It relies on an external application called Tangerine to provide media server capability.

Another interesting option is the non-gui media server option mt-daapd aka Firefly Media Server, available in the Synaptic Package Manager. mt-daapd is being replaced with forked-daapd, but that is not yet available to Ubuntu without going upstream to Debian.  I have written a little piece providing more details of installing Firefly Media Server (mt-daapd) including some screenshots.

 

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Google Buzz to Twitter

Posted on 14-Apr-2011 by gare

1. Get your Buzz RSS
2. Create an account at twitterfeed.com and use that RSS to push your Google Buzz to Twitter .

Done.

The RSS of any Google Buzzer is:

http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/{user}/public/posted

Instead of (user) type username/account

for example, the RSS feed of my GoogleBuzz is

http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/gare.calhoun/public/posted

What can you do with this?

One thing is use it at twitterfeed.com to push your Google Buzz to Twitter .

Updated April 21:
NOTE: You have to be logged in to twitterfeed.com to have it push your Buzz. Not sure how reliable this service is.

Anyone else have another solution for pushing Google Buzz to Twitter?

As originally described here:

http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2010/02/push-google-buzz-to-twitter-identica_7024.html

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how to Root a Windows 7 box

Posted on 11-Apr-2011 by gare

The sticky keys trick, with a Linux twist.

If you need to recover your windows 7 administrator password, this is one method that works.

  1. install Linux dual boot on the Win 7 machine . (Or just pop in a Linux Live CD or USB key and set your system to boot off of that. These options allow you to just run linux without installing it . )  Either of these options should give you unrestricted access to all files of the computer, including the Windows partition.
  2. Boot into Linux.
  3. Find the drive partition where Windows is installed. Make a backup of  /windows/system32/sethc.exe
  4. copy  /windows/system32/cmd.exe to /windows/system32/sethc.exe

Then reboot your computer and start the Windows installation:

  1. At the login screen, press the SHIFT key five times.
  2. You will see a command prompt where you can enter the following command to reset the Windows password:
    net user you_user_name new_password
  3. If you don’t know your user name, just type net user to list the available user names.
  4. You can now log on with the new password.

source for an all Windows version of this :
http://4sysops.com/archives/forgot-the-administrator-password-the-sticky-keys-trick/

 

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