Our default installation of OpenELEC/XBMC on the 1g AppleTV enables only HDMI video output. To enable output through the component video ports we are going to browse to the ConfigFiles SMB share on the OpenELEC/AppleTV device and create a new plain-text file called xorg.conf and then edit the file. Here is the text as it…
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Today we’re going to setup a media-center hub with OpenELEC/XBMC and a ~$30 Broadcom BCM970015 Crystal HD Decoder card on an old first-generation AppleTV. With a 1 GHz Pentium M CPU, only 256 MB of RAM and an onboard NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics processor and software video decoding, the first-generation Apple TV isn’t much…
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I’ve installed Webmin 1.620 on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server. Now I’m going to add the Usermin 1.540 package to add web-base features such as webmail, mail filtering, password changes and more for our Unix users. Read more about all the extended administration features that Usermin provides at the Webmin website, (http://www.webmin.com/usermin.html). I’m going to start by…
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Read this updated post to install Webmin 1.630 on Ubuntu 12.04/13.04/13.10. Webmin is a web-based system administration interface for Unix systems. Webmin on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server provides a stable and easy-to-use remote management system where you can easily manage user accounts, apache web-services, DNS, file shares/access, SaMBa services and much more. Check out…
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Now that I have my Minecraft craftbukkit server running in an Ubuntu VirtualBox Virtual Machine I’m going to install some basic plugins to make the Minecraft player-experience more user-friendly. The plugins that I’m going to install are xAuth to ensure the security of each Minecraft player’s identity and Grief Prevention to allow my player’s to…
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