assuming raspbian
– apt-get install vsftpd
By default vsftpd is configured for anonymous access with read-only permissions. We’re going to change things so that it requires you to authenticate with a local user. Let’s open the configuration file.

sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

We want to change or uncomment the following values.

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
chroot_local_user=YES
user_sub_token=$USER
local_root=/home/$USER/ftp

After that restart the vsftpd service. Now we need to create a couple folders in your local user’s home folder. The ftp folder will be the root when you connect. The way vsftpd works, the root is not allowed to have write permissions on it, so we’ll create a sub-folder inside the root called files which our local user will be allowed to write to. This is where you’d upload/download files from with an FTP client.

mkdir /home/andreas/ftp
mkdir /home/andreas/ftp/files
chmod a-w /home/andreas/ftp

Now you should be able to connect to your from any FTP client and start uploading/downloading files.

my server at telecity runs ubuntu server right now but as I moved to fedora recently at home I thought I also should move to centos there. Mainly because of owncloud 8 but I also wonder how to get stuff done with systemd, selinux, etc…

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I received my hifiberry last week which is now running volumio and making music, I don’t really want to hang that device to the internet as it is not upgradeable without breakage (dependencies.. duh)

anyway, I still have the old raspi so let’s make it like the old one but add an adblocker for my tablet/phone to it :)
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Ditching the idea of a NAS for a HTPC that will double as a backup server I have started investigating rsync instead of using RAID setup.

Having my data in two places should be easy enough.

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inspired by this site:
http://blog.xenodesystems.com/2014/03/how-to-managesync-your-ios-7-device.html

yum -y install kernel-headers
yum -y install kernel-devel
yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
yum groupinstall “Development Libraries”

yum install gcc rhythmbox libgpod ifuse gvfs-afc libtool libusb libusb-devel libplist

yum install libimobiledevice

Now reboot without iDevice connected!

it should now be a massive USB device
Shotwell should see the pictures
Rhythmbox should sync and manage music

Raspberry Pi is magic!

So far it does:
– MPD server (using my media center as SMB share) connected to my speakers (the audio is not that great)
– DNS resolver (http://blueeyedcreature.net/blog/?p=901)
– home automation server (using fhem)
– Airport style music receiver (shairport)
– DLNA renderer (for plex?)
– I even used it as a status screen but I didn’t like the giant screen in my home – http://blueeyedcreature.net/blog/?p=811

but I want more!
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for hl2 go:
[steam dir]\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2 Update\hl2\cfg
create or edit autoexec.cfg
add: default_fov 115 <-- 115 being good for oculus :) experiment!

So I am back with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for the moment because I figured out what was wrong with audio all this time. (multiple things)
can’t wait for the next ubuntu LTS or will go back to Fedora, I swear… the lack of proprietary driver support is the only thing I dislike there. the rest is awesome.

1) Pulseaudio is just shit without a proper systemd implementation (works like a charm for fedora 23)
2) HDMI passthrough has to be specifically enabled in plex settings
3) Nvidia prorietary driver needs to be used for proper hdmi audio passthrough
4) pulseaudio fix needs to be uncommented in /usr/bin/plexhometheater.sh to disable it
5) alternatively apt-get remove pulseaudio < -- after setup, will try again in April 2016 6) HDMI passthrough on your amplifier is counter-productive / sets itself to the wrong source when you sleep the media center / wake without amplifier enabled 7) HDMI-CEC needs more work, now it is just fuckign things up when enabled so DISABLE for now (once I have playstation 4, chromecast and more HDMI stuffz I can re-enable it. after a lot of testing and playing around with it I can now watch AAC, DTS and Dolby surround 2, 5 and 7 channels - everything works and survives reboots. Continue reading →

so after 7 years I decided to give fedora another try
after ubuntu kinda lost its advantage by being
– as complicated as windows (or windows stopping being annoying?)
– requiring me to tweak it for hours till I like it turns out fedora is no different – it’s either Apple or suck it up and customize :)
– just too old / ancient package manager (as if I know anything about that)

anyway – let’s try it!
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