barnskilinux

Monday, February 05, 2007

Implementing OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) on a Dell PowerEdge running Red Hat Enterprise Linux today, I found this, which is the unofficial Dell repository for OMSA. They even provide a couple of scripts to help you import the GPG keys, set the repo up and install the latest version over the net.
Worked like a charm :)

Thursday, February 01, 2007

I have been refining my use of Linux as an iTunes client, so I can get a crappy old machine running Linux and use it to access my entire iTunes library over the network. Output can then be to anything via the headphone jack.
To achieve this with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), I have found that the following works:
apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.8-plugins
Then edit /etc/default/avahi-daemon so that
AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1
Restart avahi-daemon (or reboot), and Rhythmbox now discovers and plays all your local iTunes shared libraries.
:)