Nov 24, 2010
Tracking Movie Collection with Griffith
Have you ever had one of those times that you were looking for a movie and didn’t know if you had it or just had no idea what movies you had? Well in comes a nice little application called Griffith. Griffith is a media collection manager application. Adding items to the collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the... read more
Jul 2, 2010
Installing NVIDIA drivers on CentOS 5.5
After you have installed CentOS, you see that your Desktop is running quite a bit slower than you expected, resolution is 800×600 and a bit jerky. What is needed is to install the drivers for your graphics card. CentOS does not have these drivers available in its default yum repository, so you will first need to add a repository to make the drivers available for installation. First, you will need to... read more
Jul 2, 2010
Adding Multimedia support on CentOS 5.5
Recently I have been building a new Home server as a Home Digital Server. In the process of using CentOS 5.5 as the Linux distro I ran into the need to Multimedia support. Here is how I accomplished the task. Add the rpmforge repos if not already installed. Type the following commands in the console/terminal For 32-bit installations (i.e. CentOS 5.x 32-bit installed), enter the following into your... read more
Jun 14, 2010
Installing Win32 Codecs on Linux
The following is an example way to install the “all” pack as root and will work on Ubuntu and Fedora. cd /tmp wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20100303.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf all-20100303.tar.bz2 su -c ‘mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs’ su -c ‘cp all-20100303/* /usr/local/lib/codecs’ rm -rf /tmp/all-20100303* read more
Jun 13, 2010
Remote Desktop to Windows PC’s from Linux
Being a Systems Administrator for a living there is always the need to have to connect to Windows servers and systems to work. At work this is easy because of using a Windows XP workstation, at home it is a bit different since a majority of the systems are Linux. There is a solution for the issue and that is tsclient aka: Terminal Server Client or Remote Desktop. Installation is easy: Ubuntu $ sudo... read more
