VirginMedia’s TV Anywhere on GNU/Linux

This works on Kubuntu 13.10 64bit at the time of writing. Similar steps should hopefully work on other modern distros.

What you will do:Install “PlayOnLinux”, create a “Virtual Drive” to hold “Firefox” that thinks it is running on Windows.

Install “PlayOnLinux” using your package manager. Don’t worry about WINE, the one that comes bundled seems . . . → Read More: VirginMedia’s TV Anywhere on GNU/Linux

Integrate MOSH into mRemoteNG

mRemoteNG is a great piece of software if you have to use Windows in your day-to-day job and want an easy way to manage all your RDP, VNC, SSH etc connections in one application (it’s similar to Remmina, KRDP etc in many ways). Unfortunately it does not have native support for MOSH, but it can . . . → Read More: Integrate MOSH into mRemoteNG

Fix your virt-manager install

This applies to virt-manager 0.10.0.1 Kubuntu 13.10 64bit at the time of writing. That means it also probably applies to all Ubuntu variants of Debain (details in bug 736547).

For whatever reason this version is badly packaged and has missing dependencies. It you are having problems running virt-manager, open a terminal and execute the following:

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The missing firewall logs of DD-WRT

As far as I know, this applies to all versions of DD-WRT at the time of writing (2014/01/08 [yyyy/mm/dd]).

DD-WRT is a really good piece of firmware for your router. Stable, functional, customisable and configurable. Unfortunately it has one or two glitches and one of those affects the firewall logs. DD-WRT comes in a number . . . → Read More: The missing firewall logs of DD-WRT

Access your own domain from within your LAN (NAT loopback on DD-WRT issue)

This seems to apply to all versions of DD-WRT at the time of writing (2014/01/06 [yyyy/mm/dd]).

You’ve just bought yourself a domain (foo.bar). You test your webserver from within the LAN “https://myserver” and it works. Joy!

You then update your public DNS record with an “A” entry, point it at your WAN IP (which your . . . → Read More: Access your own domain from within your LAN (NAT loopback on DD-WRT issue)