Configuring headless transmission (torrent) client on Fedora 17

March 8, 2025July 31, 2012 by Vik

su yum install transmission yum install transmission-daemon make sure transmission-daemon service is not running service stop transmission-daemon edit configuration file to enable rpc and disable whitelist (or allow addresses in whitelist) vi /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission/settings.json start transmission-daemon service start transmission-daemon Note: if you modify settings while transmission-daemon is running, changes won’t be saved! Therefore, first stop the service

Configuring NVidia Audio/Video on Fedora 17

March 8, 2025July 23, 2012 by Vik

A solution that worked for me: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/fedora-17-nvidia-guide/ For audio, find the device ID and add a PulseAudio sink using instructions from here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html#_pulseaudio_default_device

Dynamic MOTD in Ubuntu 12.04

March 8, 2025July 17, 2012 by Vik

Follow this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpdateMotd

Installing Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04

March 8, 2025July 16, 2012 by Vik

Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file on your system and add the lines : deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib You should also fetch and install GPG key with which the repository is signed, with the commands : cd /root wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc apt-key add jcameron-key.asc You will now be able to install with the commands : apt-get update apt-get install webmin All dependencies should be resolved automatically. Reference: http://www.webmin.com/deb.html

WOL on Fedora 17

March 8, 2025July 11, 2012 by Vik

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

Installing VNC Server on Fedora 17

March 8, 2025July 11, 2012 by Vik

This was a bit of a research but here is how I did it: http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/03/set-up-vnc-from-windows-to-fedora-12-over-the-internet/ http://owldevx.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/vnc-server-fedora-16/ http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_16&p=x&f=2

Building a Linux HTPC

March 8, 2025July 10, 2012 by Vik

It’s been a while since I have blogged not beacuse of laziness but because I am working towards having my own website where I could continue this blog and start many more interesting things. For this purpose, I have been learning Ruby on Rails as I think I want to build something on a new technology not PHP which I am not very interested in. I am also not wanting to use any CMS software. …