Robert Beal | Blog

Setting up mediatomb in Ubuntu 9.10

Robert — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:19:09 +0000

Having recently bought a WDTV HD Live to replace my Xbox (with XBMC) I decided to look into setting up a UPnP service on my Ubuntu headless server. After reading around a bit, I firstly tried uShare but didn’t find it very flexible. I finally settled on MediaTomb as I liked the look of the JavaScript [...]

Max Value HomePlug Matching Problem… Fixed

Robert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:12:17 +0000

For Christmas (2009) I was given a pair of Max Value 200Mbps HomePlug units, presumably from Amazon. Out of the box they worked, and still do, perfectly. I was so impressed by them, I quickly ordered another pair from Amazon within a few weeks, and this is where my problem began. The first pair, lets call [...]

Rebuilding Grub2 grub.cfg from Ubuntu Live CD

Robert — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:26:23 +0000

After installing Windows 7 the other day I lost my Grub install. Not a problem, in the past I’ve used my Super Grub Disc to repair it. This didn’t work for me though (may be my disc is a bit date, or maybe it doesn’t support grub 2 just yet). Instead I booted up using [...]

Checkgmail not working in Ubuntu?

Robert — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:59:01 +0000

Over the last few weeks checkgmail has not been working. This is quite common given Google probably changing things around. So it has happened in the past, and requires and update to be pushed out. Unfortunately, via the repositories this is quite a slow affair. There is a quicker solution though… Open up a terminal window Type [...]

The Importance of Being There at Conception (of a Feature)

Robert — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:24:19 +0000

I’ll use a slightly crude example to get across the point of this post. It’s maybe not the best comparison, but bare with me. Instead of “feature” think of “child” in relation to conception. Let’s say you weren’t there from conception of your child. In fact the first 15 years of the child’s life you missed [...]

Mount EXT3 in Windows 7 x64

Robert — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:57:42 +0000

I’ve recently installed Windows 7 RC x64, but being primarily a Linux user I want to be able to use EXT3/EXT4 with Windows. Here are a few simple steps and requirements to get it working. Preparation I’m using Windows 7 x64 so have two options of either with using EXT2IFS (which I generally prefer as it’s a [...]

Switching to EXT4 in Ubuntu (and back to EXT3)

Robert — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:52:28 +0000

Problems EXT4 is soon to become the default file system in Ubuntu once 9.10 (Karmic) has been released. I’ve already been using it, but have stumbled across a few problems: Reverting – I moved all of my backups and vast amounts of data across into EXT4 partitions. I have since been having a few problems with Ubuntu [...]

Branching per feature

Robert — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:01:38 +0000

If you’re working in an Agile environment, chances are you’re working from a continuously integrated source control system, with a trunk, branches etc… If that’s the case many people will be familiar with “the build” being broken (typically the trunk) which can bring development (and sometimes testing) to a grinding halt. The larger the team(s) [...]

Should We Depend On Mono?

Robert — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:24:20 +0000

Ok, firstly I’m going to say I’m a C# developer, so partially biased, although I do think my views are quite fair. I’m only a C# developer by profession (from Java). I only use Linux at home, C# is purely for web development. Right with that out of the way now I can get to commenting [...]

Don’t Go Breaking My Build

Robert — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:12:05 +0000

I’ve written another article on the Huddle blog, this time detailing about how to stop the build breaking or at least informing people when it has been broken so it can be fixed quickly. There is a Jabber notification NAnt task we use. I’m working on putting together a NAnt.Util library (pulling together previous tasks [...]