We really got into FlashFoward. It had an interesting story, and you can tell the writers spent a lot of time getting the story right before they filmed anything. Reminds me of another brilliant show with an complex and over-arching storyline.

Damn. Oh well, at least dropping FlashForward allowed the network to pick up a new sit-com starring Matthew Perry. Which will be just, you know, amazing. Swings and roundabouts eh.

All Hail the King.

I’m using RHEL5 here, but these instructions should work just as well for CentOS. My media directory is going to be called /media, and I’m doing all this via an xrdp session.

First, you need to install ushare to stream media to your 360:

yum install gcc
yum install libupnp-devel # from EPEL
wget http://ushare.geexbox.org/releases/ushare-1.1a.tar.bz2
tar -xjf ushare-1.1a.tar.bz2
cd ushare-1.1a
CFLAGS="-Os" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 eth0
ushare -D -x -c /media

Once you have ushare up and running, your XBox 360 should be able to stream the files in your /media directory.

Now, for downloading torrents I suggest using Wine and uTorrent. I know, it’s not a native Linux app but the fact is the current generation of torrent clients for Linux are mediocre at best. uTorrent is fast, has a tiny footprint, and more features than you can poke a stick at. So until the Linux clients catch up, it’s uTorrent for me.

To install uTorrent on Linux:

yum install wine
wget http://download.utorrent.com/2.0.2/utorrent.exe
wine ./utorrent.exe /NOINSTALL

This should get uTorrent up and running. Next you need to enable the “Web UI” in the configuration settings, and create a username and password for remote access. Choose an arbitrary port like 8123. Once configured you should be able to access your uTorrent GUI remotely via:

http://<yourserver>:8123/gui/

Now, you probably have other PCs and laptops that you want to use to queue up the torrents on your server. That’s where the “Send to WebUI” firefox addon comes in, install this addon to any computer you usually use to browse torrents.

Once you’ve configured it with your server, and username/password, you can queue up torrents as easily as right-click -> “Sent to WebUI”.

If you don’t use firefox don’t worry, you can still queue up torrents via the uTorrent web-interface, it’s just a few extra clicks of the mouse instead of just one.

And that’s it. Queue up your torrents remotely, and watch them on your XBox soon as they have downloaded.

Looks like the hacker was from Italy…

Please delete any messages you get from me trying to sell you pills (unless it’s Vitamin-C, which is really good for you).

Last night’s match was a joy to watch, if you could look past all the ugly wrestling tactics and attempts to put Queensland off their game that is.

And what was going on with the refs? Why wasn’t O’Donnel sent off for this? A spear tackle and a headbutt, and he stayed on the field. In any normal NRL game he’d be off.

In any case, it’s 5 years in a row now and I never get sick of smashing the Blues. Bring on Game 3. Last year NSW beat QLD in game 3 after we’d taken the series… so let’s make it 3-0 this year.

• March: 90.17% (4 outages)
• April: 94.28% (7 outages)
• May: 99.98% (2 outages)

Let’s hope it stays that way.

p.s. I passed the RHCE exam. Yay.

I’ve just found and fixed the problem. Normal service has resumed, but if you tried to contact me and I didn’t get back to you, I apologise.

In other news, RHCE exam tomorrow. EEK!
And other other news… Will it be 5 years in a row???

It’s seems a lot faster. It could be because I’m running the 64-bit version (used to run 32-bit Vista), and could also be because somehow Windows is always magically faster after a re-install…

But it just seems to be a lot more polished. Things are in the right place, it’s fast, and it just works.

I did see in Dick Smith’s though the retail price is almost AU$500. I defintely don’t think it’s worth that much when you can get Linux for free, but as far as Windows operating systems go… it’s pretty good!

• Wedding Pics
• Honeymoon Pics

Here’s a few of them:

The Master Chief wedding-cake topper was Melissa’s idea (although I fully approved ). They are just action figures we bought off EBay, and then positioned them on a platform. Melissa got the flowers from a craft shop.