Erik Kristensen

Installing Dropbox on a headless linux server

erik — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:41:53 +0000

Here are the step to get dropbox working on the linux command line:

cd ~
rm -rf .dropbox* Dropbox
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.7.110.tar.gz
tar xzf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.7.110.tar.gz
unset DISPLAY
.dropbox-dist/dropbox

You will get a link that you need to copy and paste to your browser (does not need to be on the same machine).
After a while little while, kill the process and start it again like this:

nohup .dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

Tested on Debian Squeeze.

Min wordle

erik — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:54:29 +0000

Måtte hoppe på bølgen jeg også Min wordle fra twitter.

ssh in to a virtualbox server using nat and host-only adapter

erik — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:54:38 +0000

With vmware, if you have your virtual machine set to nat networking, they set up an adapter for you, and you have access to the outside world as well, without exposing your machine using bridged networking, now with virtualbox, it’s another story…

If you chose the nat network setting in virtualbox, you will be able to connect to the outside network, but you cant connect in using ssh or similar.

The solution: add another network adapter using the “host-only adapter” setting. Configure that adapter with dhcp, voila! Now you can ssh in on eth1 and connnect to the internet using eth0.

Dumping a stream using mplayer

erik — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:02:17 +0000

Here is an example how to dump a stream using mplayer, this works with both realaudio and windows media, the example is recording a windows media stream from NRK:

mplayer mms://straumod.nrk.no/rod/petre/petreh_081031_21.wma -dumpstream -dumpfile petreh_081031_21.wma mplayer -ao pcm hot97.wma lame --preset standard audiodump.wav

Pinell Supersound med Samba og Debian Lenny

erik — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:44:11 +0000

Pinell supersound

Jeg fikk meg en Pinell Supersound til jul av familien. Den har FM, DAB og kan spille en drøss av radiostasjoner fra nett. Irie FM på kjøkkenet! Yay!

Men den har også innebygd støtte for SMB shares, så man kan spille musikkfiler fra en filserver.
For å få den til å funke på Debian Lenny var det to quirks:

1) jeg måtte dele ut filer i gjestemodus, passord virket ikke

2) får å få filene i alfabetisk rekkefølge, så må man bruke siste versjon av samba, som finnes i lenny backports, og bruke opsjonen vfs objects=dirsort

Følgende må inn i /etc/samba/smb.conf:
security=share guest account=nobody

[musikk] path=/samba browseable=yes read only=yes guest ok=yes vfs objects=dirsort

Getting wp audio player to work with wordpress 2.8

erik — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:12:23 +0000

Just downloaded the latest player here:

http://wpaudioplayer.com/

And patched it with this:

http://claas.cabird.de/files/audio-player.php.txt

Example:

Shabba!

erik — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:38:49 +0000

Bare noen dager igjen!

Ny server

erik — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:04:23 +0000

Da har jeg byttet ut den gamle pentium 100 boksen jeg kjøpte for 20 kr, med en fin skinnende eee box, og installert wordpress. Hjelp! Jeg har blitt en blogger

Set JAVA_HOME in windows cmd shell

erik — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Not hard, but I always forget:

set JAVA_HOME=”c:\progra~1\Java\jdk1.6.0_11″

Postfix + gmail on Debian etch

erik — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:49:00 +0000

Here is how to set up postfix relaying using gmail

apt-get install postfix libsasl2-modules

Add the following lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf:

smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587

Add the file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

[smtp.gmail.com]:587 youruser@gmail.com:yourpassword

And run postmap on it

postmap sasl_passwd

restart postfix and your done