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Enabling 5.1 S/PDIF on XBMC

Jaap — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:03:28 +0000

Just got myself a new receiver and that made me finally want to enable 5.1 sound on my mediacenter. I tried a LOT of tutorials, to finally find out the solution was quite simple… I tried upgrading Alsa, according to this post on XBMC but did not manage to enable it. It was a post on [...]

Extracting a multi-file ZIP archive

Jaap — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:04:51 +0000

When you’ve downloaded a multi-file zip archive, from let’s say, rapidshare, it’s quite easy to unzip it. For example, the arive was split up into file.z01 file.z02 file.zip Here’s howto unzip ‘em: echo file.z* > newfile.zip zip -F newfile.zip unzip newfile.zip

Adding privacyand anonymity to the EEE by installing TOR and privoxy

Jaap — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:29:57 +0000

This too, is an easy one: echo deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor/ sarge main >> /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv CFF71CB3AFA44BDD gpg --export --armor CFF71CB3AFA44BDD | apt-key add - sudo apt-get install tor sudo apt-get install privoxy Edit the config file as described on the documentation page and restart privoxy. Add Torbutton to your Firefox to tell it to use privoxy [...]

Installing DIG on the EEE pc

Jaap — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:24:17 +0000

I wanted to install ‘dig’ on my EEE. Here’s a quick howto. Start by adding the Debian repositories to your sources: Open Synaptic. Click Settings, then Repositories. In the URI box, put http://http.us.debian.org/debian/. In the Distribution box, put etch. In the Section:s box put main contrib non-free. Click OK, the the Reload [...]

The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F13930B14BB9F05F

Jaap — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:33:52 +0000

SABnzbD has a new release. It has been added to the PPA immediately, which is great. Updating the packages gave me an error: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F13930B14BB9F05F Quick fix: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv F13930B14BB9F05F Then enter the following: gpg --export --armor F13930B14BB9F05F | sudo apt-key add - Then, to [...]