Use one these blocklists in Transmission (level1 should be fine):
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FreeNAS: mount USB disk with ext3 partitions
I’m playing around with a HP MicroServer running FreeNAS 0.7.2 and had some problems mounting an external USB disk with a EXT3 partition. FreeNAS kept on complaining:
mount: /dev/da1s1 : Operation not supported by device
Very weird. However, trying to check the drive with:
fsck_ext2fs /dev/da1s1
… did the trick. Now the disk is mountable.
Recursively batch rename files in Linux
If you’re using Kerio Mail Server (Kerio Connect) under Linux and you’ve moved around (using rsync or such) some mail folders, sometimes you’ll need to recreate the folder index, otherwise some email might not show up in your email program (Outlook, Mail.app, Webmail).
The only thing you’ll need to do is to rename the index.fld files inside each (!) folder into index.bad.
Yeah, nasty. So: fire up your Vi editor and put this little script inside your store folder:
badindex.sh
#!/bin/bash
find . -name "index.fld" -exec sh -c 'mv -v "$0" "${0%.fld}.bad"' {} \;
Link your public Dropbox folder to your site
I’ve always got some stuf in my public Dropbox folder I want to share with friends but I don’t want to send out emails with the link to those files.
I thought it would be easier to have link a folder on my webserver to this public Dropbox folder. This is how I did it:
– get your public dropbox folder name; should be something like this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxxx/
– replace the xxxxxxx with what you see in your dropbox
– create a folder on your webserver, like /dl
– create a .htaccess on your folder with this info:
Redirect 301 /dl http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxxx
That’s it! It’s a ‘file not found’ redirect towards your Dropbox.
Unboxing the WD 2.0 TB USB disk – WDBAAU0020HBK
Got a couple of external 2.0 TB disks from WD; prices € 65 at amazon. Amazing deal.
But, I wanted to know what’s inside of these boxes. So, I took my trusty putty-knife (the one I use to operate on Mac mini’s) and I opened it up. And this is what’s inside:
Disk: Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EACS 2.0TB with 16MB cache
(update: or you might find a WD20EARS 2.0TB with 64MB cache!)
Model: WD20EACS-11BHUB0
Date: 17/12/2010
Great Media-player compare site
Just found this great site to compare media-players.
Check it out:
http://www.iboum.com/net-media-players.php
Spedireweb.it: NON funziona!
-UPDATE-
Lascia perdere SpedireWeb; dopo un sacco di problemi (spedizione perse, niente rimborsi, ecc) sono passato a TNT-Click.it che funziona davvero bene.
Oggi ho fatto la mia prima prova con www.spedireweb.it; ho compilato i moduli, ho pagato € 6,98 tramite paypal e ho ricevuto subito via mail la bolla da stampare e da applicare sul pacco. Alle fine usano TNT Express per il ritoro e la spedizione: niente male per questo prezzo!
Domani il pacco viene ritirato e dovrebbe arrivare alla destinazione entro 3 giorni. Vediamo!
Aumento tariffe Paccocelere di Poste Italiane
Eccomi qui a fare l’ennesimo post per annunciare l’aumento delle tariffe postali del “pacco celere†che è operativo dal 24 agosto scorso e che, ovviamente, è avvenuto in sordina, senza nessun avviso per gli utenti.
Per chi vende online o per chi partecipa a swap, baratti, scambi e simili (come me) è l’ennesimo salasso ingiustificato, ingiustificato perché essenzialmente la qualità dei servizi postali nazionali peggiora invece di migliorare, malgrado gli aumenti costanti e abbondanti!
Stessa cosa per chi ama comprare online (come me ancora una volta) che si vedrà addebitate spese di spedizione ancora più care.
Per calcolare l’aumento basta aggiungere il costo dell’IVA al 20% ai prezzi del paccocelere, quindi la postacelere 1 passa da 10 a 12,00 euro, mentre il pacco celere 3 passa da 9,50 a 11,40 euro (quasi quasi conviene di più il primo tanto per 60 centesimi di differenza…) e il pacco celere 1 (da 0 a 3kg.) passa da 13,00 a 15,60 euro!
Però una buona notizia c’è, sono venuta a conoscenza di un nuovo servizio privato, per spedire in Italia, che ha costi un po’ inferiori, devo solo provarlo e poi preparo una bella recensione a “blog unificatiâ€â€¦ Si chiama www.spedireweb.it.
How to install language support for Ubuntu
How to install language support for Ubutnu:
If you want to add additional locales on your Ubuntu installation, check this out! Â Go to the locales folder:
$ cd /usr/share/locales
In that directory is a script to add a new locale or language pack. Â If you want to find out which language pack to install you can look at the /etc/locale.alias file. Â To install, for examples, Â Italian language support on Ubuntu, just run this command:
$ ./install-language-pack it_IT
Followed by:
$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
That’s it! Repeat these steps for any other locale you need.
Disable service startup in linux
My eTrayz NAS starts up with lots of services that I don’t need, like iTunes-server (mt-daapd), MiniDLNA, etc.
I put together this little script do easily check the current runlevel services and to disable them. Nothing spectacular but still 🙂
#!/bin/sh
chkconfig --list | grep "3:on"
echo "Enter service name:"
read service
echo "Removing $service"
chkconfig --del $service
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
chkconfig --level $i $service off
echo "Service $service in runlevel $i turned off."
done
chkconfig --list | grep -i $service