The NxFifteen Project

What's Comming

root — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:00:17 +0000

I bought two new domains last night. So this is what I'm planning... I've been collecting domains for years now and frankly own too many and use less than four. So in the next few days NxFifteen will become my primary domain for everything I use. I'm also making the move away from my current American governed top level domain name. The new centre of my online presence will become nxfifteen.me.uk and it's sister nx15.me.uk

Installing CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 on my HP TouchPad

root — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:19:16 +0000

I have just finished installing CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 on my HP TouchPad. Its gorgeous. I cant say I ever become a fan of WebOS, unlike some I've talked to it never grew on me and the rare times when I did want to make use of it the App Market was far too over priced and in my experience limited, but now with Android the device 'sings'

My HP TouchPad

root — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:05:30 +0000

Its a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and I was just about to get stuck into my taxes when I noticed its been over a month since I bought my HP TouchPad, during its legendary fire-sale, with the intention of installing Android the first chance I got. Well I still haven't! CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 has been out now for a few weeks so I decided this would be a far better use of my day, taxes will just have to wait. Expect to hear how I get on soon

Normalize XBMC media volumes with ALSA on-the-fly

root — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:37:03 +0000

One problem with my ever growing collection of movies and tv is the volume wars between formats. Add in music video downloads from iTunes and Amazon and the variabations become extreme. With a little creative searching I found an addon that can be added to the ALSA sounds system on my Ubuntu installation to this work on-the-fly

Installing XBMC for Ubuntu Natty 11.04 from APT Repository

root — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:36:01 +0000

XBMC Wiki. This is the extra step I had to follow to get everything working the way I would have expected.

New email confirmation dialogs

root — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:11:28 +0000

posting on a FreeBSD mail archive. I can't help thinking Microsofts' Outlook Express could be vastly improved if only these subjections were implemented...

Configuring BIND9 as a Master/Slave pair

root — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:31:02 +0000

For many years I have been using Webmin as means of quickly administrating the three servers I am responsible for. How ever when I was recently asked to setup a number of BIND9 DNS servers in a Master/Slave configuration I set about doing this manually as none of the servers in question had any form of web interface. This is how I setup three DNS servers to work in unison, one master and two slaves.

Do I need an Anti-Virus on Linux?

root — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:30:46 +0000

I was recently ask by a new Linux convert now they should go about acquiring an Anti-Virus application and whether I would recommend McAfee of Norton. Without going into my own opinions about which might be better or worse I aim to clear up some of the confusion surrounding Linux Anti-Virus applications and what they are actually intended for.

Non-Root Ubuntu Shutdown

root — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:29:25 +0000

Many users out there will be using KDE or Gnome for their day-to-day Linux usage, so want have any problems shutting down their PC. How-ever I recently set-up and terminal-only machine as a kinda adhoc NAS device and found there is no easy way of to shutdown or restart the computer with out using the sudo command and entering your password to become root. So this is how I got around the problem, by removing the need for the sudo password.

Getting Logitech custom mouse buttons working within Linux

root — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:45:26 +0000

Having lived in a Windows environment for the past couple of years I've gotten somewhat used to my routines and short cuts, most of which are missing or changed now that I'm 95% Ubuntu. The most notable absentee are all the extra buttons on my Logitech MX Revolution mouse, which I have mapped to a vast array or custom key stroked. So, lest I forget, this is how I have got these custom buttons working correctly.