Entries from November 2009 ↓

As easy as:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install firefox-3.6

In reply to my last article about media centers.
Well, I installed xbmc this weekend and actually it kinda sucked. Installation was a breeze: kudos for that. But when I ran it, it hogged all of the cpu time of the second core. 100% constantly.

I’ve got an Ati hd3200 integrated on the motherboard and in combination with XBMC I believe that’s a bad choice. I’ve read numerous threads about people having the same problem as me I’m quite upset with this. I don’t blame the XBMC developers, they do a fabulous job, but still it sucks.

I hope that in the next couple of weeks this problem is solved but I don’t think it will. I’m now looking for an alternative but XBMC just looks so polished…. It’s too bad it’s not usable for me

I’m now downloading the live cd of XBMC and see if that works ’cause I dont know who to blame: me, ati, xbmc or ubuntu…

Well as the title says: the cronjobs of the root user didn’t run on one of my servers (MY MACHINE!) and it took a while to figure out why they weren’t running. It ended up to be something with locking the root account. These steps fixed the problem:

sudo passwd -l root
sudo usermod -p ! root