Archive for the 'How-To' Category

Remove Duplicate Tracks in iTunes

iTunes does a pretty good job keeping your music organized however when you have a ton of music and store it on a NAS for sharing, iTunes gets pissed when it can’t connect and will automatically change your library folder back to home/music.
I had this happen to me three times within the past month and [...]

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How To Watch American Television in Canada

The other night I was asked by a friend how he could watch his favourite ABC show on line (think it was called “Fringe”).  I also recently had to configuring about ten phones behind a NAT so I had to find a quick way into the internal network.
This works on any platform and is a [...]

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Screw your Mobile Carrier - Part 2

Last night while reading through some interesting articles at nerdvittles.com I stumbled upon a wicked little Asterisk PHPAGI script for web initialized inbound calling with Callback and DISA.
I added a form to the code because it was basic and only accepted phone numbers from the GET  string however it pretty much works perfectly out of [...]

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Run Your Own Web Server with VMWare

After spending years playing with Linux Servers and VMWare I have decided to give a little bit back to the community.  I have created a minimal VMWare web server image with everything you need to get started hosting your own web pages and applications.
This is a CentOS 4.6 minimal installation with all the updates / [...]

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Re-Encoding m4a to mp3 in Ubuntu

I just downloaded a bunch of older Moneen torrents and wanted to put them up on Radio Free Geekhut, unfortunately my crappy Windows Encoding box doesn’t support m4a playback.  After a quick google search I found a link as to how to convert these puppies in Ubuntu / Debian since soundconverter wont do it for [...]

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Video : Torrentflux How-To

This is a quick how to to get you started using the best web based torent downloader / tracker ever created, Torrentflux.
I am sure I’ve blogged this before but I just reinstalled it on geekhut and I thought I’d show it off a second time.
Here is a link to the ogg, I am converting the [...]

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How To Dual Boot Hackintosh and Ubuntu

I wrote this post before geekhut recently crashed so I decided to repost the google cache because of the articles popularity.
Well because it is the holidays and I have nothing better to do than drink, I decided to have a few and install OSX86 on my Toshiba Satellite. The problem is Zend Development Environment is [...]

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Screw Your Cell Phone Company

This is a sweet little trick you can pull to basically never have to worry about outrageous cell phone billing again.
I personally haven’t owned a cell phone in years, I found it to be very expensive and I would usually end up being forced to pay for services I never used. Now those you [...]

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“Urd” is the Word - Install this Now

You watched my “How to Download Movies in < 10 Minutes” post a while back and probably noticed I was using an Ubuntu flavoured distro and an application called “Pan”. Now Pan is wicket cool but don’t you think it would be nicer to pirate media from anywhere in the world at such rediculous speeds?
I [...]

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Video How To : Linux Shoutcast Server

I just made this quick how to video for anyone looking to set up their own internet radio station. I do not condone streaming illegally acquired mp3’s… actually I do, Enjoy.

Download the original .ogg file here.

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