Linux URxvt Terminal: Text under Cursor is invisible

Hello everyone, today I hustled with the problem that the text my cursor was above went invisible, not matter which color I chose for it. The text always got the same color. What solved it for me was to uncomment the URxvt.font-line in my...

Diablo 2: LoD Access Violation Error

I had this Error and after ages of searching someone came up with the idea of mixed up languages. So if no "compatibilty" or "patch" suggestion helped you, then try checking wether you mixed up languages. This happened to me as I installed D2 in...

Getting File Downloads from the Piwik API in PHP/Joomla

Hey there, got a problem today where I have to track file downloads from a site. Since I got Piwik tracking them, I will use their API to get my information, saving me loads of work. Piwik offers the possibilty to integrate it directly into your...

Using XBMC as your media-server

Okay so I tried many of those media-servers and some of them worked pretty nice. But there's one thing that was really bothering me: All of them were just UPNP but now I wanted to connect the PC directly to my TV so save the energy of the...

MediaTomb as a UPNP Media Server

So XBMC failed. I would have to install X-Server and several other stuff and it is cleary not suited for a standalone upnp server. Maybe sometime in the future I will connect the box to my TV and use XBMC as my frontend. But unti then, I will go back …

uShare Experience

After testing uShare for some time now, I will write down quick and dirty experiences I have made: uShare does not support German "umlauts" like ö,ä,ü etc., at least not in the default setting I could not get uShare to start at system boot. While...

Building uShare with DLNA-Support

If you ever thought about getting a media server to make accessing all your movies and audio files easier, you may have come across the term "UPNP" and such. This is basically what I want: A media server, that can serve media via UPNP (and...