MediaTomb breaking after Ubuntu upgrade

Yesterday, upgraded Ubuntu Server from 14.10 to 15.04, and somehow it broke MediaTomb. After upgrade, my uPnP server was not showing up in consuming devices. I looked at the logs, and found that MediaTomb was binding to localhost cat /var/log/mediatomb 2015-06-07 12:31:46    INFO: Loading configuration from: /etc/mediatomb/config.xml2015-06-07 12:31:46    INFO: Checking …

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Transmission Remote GUI enables you to control your torrents from Windows

I love Transmission BT client on my Ubuntu Server. However, I hate it’s web UI. Searching on the web I found an excellent UI for it. It’s called Transmission Remote GUI, and can be downloaded here. This UI is a “thick” client meaning you will need to connect to Transmission Server …

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Send emails from Ubuntu using your live.com address

This is a neat configuration to enable SMTP mail using Microsoft’s Live.com email. After successful configuration you’ll be able to send outgoing mails from your Ubuntu box using your live.com account. (Other email services will work too. I haven’t tested though). Will you ever manually send emails from Ubuntu? Perhaps not …

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Installing Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04

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 …

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