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Six Feet Under album available for streaming Quite interesting - not bad and as boring as expected.
MESHUGGAH song preview stream A typical MESHUGGAH song from the upcoming album "Koloss" can be prelistened here:
I am not sure whether this is what I expected or if I am still looking for the innovative point in this "new" song...
QNAP Crashplan Backup 3.0.3 quick step installation... After several problems with the manual installation of Java JRE for embedded and CrashPlan 3.0.3 for Linux I finally gathered all informations to apply QPKG packages for proper installation on various QNAP systems (tried it on my QNAP TS-410 Turbo NAS in first instance).
Here is a quick step installation:
QNAP...
Wordpress NGG NextGen Gallery JW imagerotator slideshow... I experienced some problems with the NextGen Gallery widget showing random images on http://www.metal-nights.de. There were simply no images showing up any more - the imagerotator flash keeps loading forever.
The reason for this were too many images when chosing "all images" as source for the rotator....
English wikipedia anti black-out extension for Google... Did you hear about the SOPA/PIPA blackout of the English Wikipedia? Here is the solution for a workaround - I put a little extension for Google Chrome revealing the Wikipedia pages, the work of some minutes - actually my first chrome extension ever - but it was kind of interesting... Install Extension...
Feb
20
2012
Category : Metal
A typical MESHUGGAH song from the upcoming album “Koloss” can be prelistened here:
I am not sure whether this is what I expected or if I am still looking for the innovative point in this “new” song…
Feb
01
2012
After several problems with the manual installation of Java JRE for embedded and CrashPlan 3.0.3 for Linux I finally gathered all informations to apply QPKG packages for proper installation on various QNAP systems (tried it on my QNAP TS-410 Turbo NAS in first instance).
Here is a quick step installation:
QNAP ARM CPU (x10 / x12 / x19)
Java Runtime Environment installation
- Download Java JRE for ARMv5 Linux – Headless (Early Access) EABI, glibc 2.5, Soft Float, Little Endian – you need to enter some data there to receive the download link (sorry cannot provide a direct download link as this is considered to be illegal)
- Copy file (name should look like ejre-1_6_0_25-fcs-b06-linux-arm-sflt-eabi-headless-14_apr_2011.tar.gz) to the Public folder on your NAS
- Download QNAP ARM Java package
- Unzip and install QPKG
- Enable JRE in QPKG manager
CrashPlan installation
- Download QNAP ARM CrashPlan package
- Install QPKG
- Enable CrashPlan in QPKG manager
QNAP x86 CPU (x9 without x19)
Java Runtime Environment installation
- Download QNAP x86 Java package
- Install QPKG
- Enable JRE in QPKG manager
CrashPlan installation
- Download QNAP x86 CrashPlan package
- Install QPKG
- Enable CrashPlan in QPKG manager
GUI access from a diffrent machine (e.g. Windows 7 box)
Configuration on QNAP NAS
- Disable CrashPlan in QPKG manager
- Edit /share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/CrashPlan/conf/my.service.xml and replace
<serviceHost>127.0.0.1</serviceHost>
with
<serviceHost>0.0.0.0</serviceHost>
- Enable CrashPlan in QPKG manager
GUI installation on Windows machine (same configuration as for Linux GUI)
- Download CrashPlan client
- Install CrashPlan on Windows machine
- Go to Control Panel -> Services -> Look for CrashPlan Service (German: Systemsteuerung -> Dienste -> CrashPlan)
- Stop CrashPlan service
- Edit properties of CrashPlan service and set to manual start up (German: manuelles Starten)
- Edit C:Program FilesCrashPlanconfui.properties (maybe locatd in different folder) and replace
#serviceHost=127.0.0.1
with
serviceHost=...
Best is to use your NAS IP address – but the hostname should work as well
- Start CrashPlan – it should connect to your NAS (you will see your NAS name appearing there as source for backup)
- You may also remove the CrashPlan Tray from your Autostart folder because it will not work for a remote machine (if someone got a solution for this issue, feel free to post it!)
NOTE – This way of setting up CrashPlan on an ARM QNAP system with very low memory (256MB) proved to be better than the manual setup I did before. There were lots of memory problems and instability.
SOURCES – The following QNAP forum sources are best if you want to check for updates of the QPKG packages:
Java JRE QPKG – http://www.turbonas.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=870
CrashPlan QPKG – http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=227&t=39078
If you have any questions concerning manual installations of Sun / Oracle JRE for embedded systems on ARM or similar, please post a comment. Same goes for Crashplan installation on various Linux systems.
Jan
31
2012
I experienced some problems with the NextGen Gallery widget showing random images on http://www.metal-nights.de. There were simply no images showing up any more – the imagerotator flash keeps loading forever.
The reason for this were too many images when chosing “all images” as source for the rotator. The PHP callback providing the XML “image playlist” for the imagerotator.swf was empty because of out of memory-issues. This was the case if there were more than 1600 images in the database. The query delivered a fully parsed result set which was simply too large.
If you do not want to get rid of all your images, the only way to solve this issue is to limit the result set:
- open wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/imagerotator.php for editing
- look for
$thepictures = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM $wpdb->nggallery AS t INNER JOIN $wpdb->nggpictures AS tt ON t.gid = tt.galleryid WHERE tt.exclude != 1 ORDER BY tt.{$ngg_options['galSort']} {$ngg_options['galSortDir']} ");
- change to
$thepictures = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM $wpdb->nggallery AS t INNER JOIN $wpdb->nggpictures AS tt ON t.gid = tt.galleryid WHERE tt.exclude != 1 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100;"); //tt.{$ngg_options['galSort']} {$ngg_options['galSortDir']} ");
This will return 100 random sorted images. This will be enough for about 10 minutes displaying the page without reload. You may even reduce the number to about 20.
The plus is that your page will speed up.
Enjoy.
Jan
18
2012
Did you hear about the SOPA/PIPA blackout of the English Wikipedia?
Here is the solution for a workaround – I put a little extension for Google Chrome revealing the Wikipedia pages, the work of some minutes – actually my first chrome extension ever – but it was kind of interesting…
Install Extension – check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org!
Freaky, isn’t it?
Edit: Improved to version 1.1 – proper display of the wikipedia page now.
Dec
07
2011
Actually I had some troubles today with a simply request downloading a file with the .NET WebClient class via https. Instead of http most webservers seem to expect an User-Agent header for security reasons when accessing the webserver through https.
The solution is just plain simple – add any random User-Agent header to the request otherwise the returned content or file is empty (0 bytes).
Dim oDownload As New WebClient
oDownload.Headers.Add(“User-Agent”, “Your App 1.0.0.0″)
oDownload.DownloadFile(“https://any.com/file.zip, “file.zip”)
I will not talk about the CustomSoapHeaders I was using. For the moment… it is a bit too late for in-depth programming details.
Note: WebClient class is available in the System.Net Namespace from .NET Framwork 2.0 and following.