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I wanted to test tethered shooting with my Canon EOS 60D. Tethered shooting is useful when you want to see a large view of your captured images while shooting. I had connected the camera to the computer via USB cable – I had to try a few cables before I got the appropriate one –… Read more »
Vuze has built-in ability to exclude IP addresses under Options > IP Filters iBlockList.com have many of these lists and the bluetack level 1 list address is: http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz This URL should be entered into the space labelled: IP Filter file to autoload This will restrict sharing with any of the listed IP addresses.
The WiFi settings for qub_sec for Android and Linux devices: The certificate is available here and should be downloaded in advance and entered into the field labelled CA Certificate. SSID (wireless network name) = qub_sec Authentication = EAP-TTLS (PAP) Encryption / Association = WPA enterprise (TKIP) For more info see… Read more »
Here are my tips for customizing XBMC, most of the changes to the settings are done so under System > System Settings > Skin > Settings Install the Fusion XBMCHub Repository From the Fusion Repository install the XbmcHub Wizard Edition Fix the Background Image by downloading an original and setting it under System > System… Read more »
I had been using Sound Juicer on Ubuntu to rip Audio CDs to MP3 but looking for a bit more control (specifically over the bitrate) I had a play with Asunder: sudo apt-get install asunder Asunder will auto find the CDDB details for the CD to auto name the output files just like Sound Juicer:… Read more »
I had a problem using Ubuntu and an Acer Aspire V5-571G. Every time I opted to shutdown, the laptop would reboot again after a few seconds. I found this article with the answer for Fedora and to make it work on Ubuntu I chose to replace the shutdown command as follows: sudo mv /sbin/shutdown /sbin/shutdown-default… Read more »
On Ubuntu 13.10 the following terminal commands help to configure the window control buttons and a few other things: Move the Window Controls to the Right gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ‘:minimize,maximize,close’ Move the Window Controls to the Left gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ‘close,maximize,minimize:’ While I was at it I also made a few other customisations:… Read more »
Install with: sudo apt-get install mediatomb Amend the /etc/mediatomb/config.xml file. I find the configuration below works well for all the video types I throw at it. Then access the web interface at http://localhost:49152 logging in with mediatomb/mediatomb and add some video directories to be served. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <config version=”2″ xmlns=”http://mediatomb.cc/config/2″ xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://mediatomb.cc/config/2 http://mediatomb.cc/config/2.xsd”><!– Read /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-common/README.gz… Read more »
I wanted to use Autofs to auto-mount the shares on my Netgear ReadyNAS upon entering specific directories so… Install pre-requisites: sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs sudo gedit /etc/auto.master Add the line: /mnt/nas /etc/auto.nas –timeout=6000 –ghost sudo gedit /etc/auto.nas And added the following lines: pictures -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm ://nas/pictures videos -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm ://nas/videos music -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm ://nas/music documents… Read more »
The length of time it was taking after logging in to get Dropbox started was beginning to get on my nerves. The following worked for me: Open the Dropbox Preferences dialog and disable the option for “Start Dropbox on system startup” Next choose Applications > System Tools > Preferences > Startup Applications and add a… Read more »
