Have you ever heard of google cloud print? It allows you to add your printers to the cloud and share them. You can print on them from any device supporting this service, even if you are on another network. This sounds pretty cool, I gave it a try and I... [Read More]
Shairport: Debian as Airtunes Server
Recently some friends and me were talking about streaming music from iTunes to my dockstar with an usb sound device connected. I knew there is a solution, so I started some research an found shairport at mafipulation.org. The project looks quite interesting and I tried to set everything up that... [Read More]
miniDLNA: Dockstar as DLNA-Server v1.1.4
Today I noticed there is a new version of miniDLNA available. When the build process was running I decided to make a deb-file that you guys don’t have to compile the sources yourself. [Read More]
Netcat: stdin/stdout over network
Recently I wanted to transfer data over the local network. I had to make an image of a drive, so I used dd. [Read More]
Ubuntu 11.04: install Broadcom b43xx Wifi Driver
When I was upgrading some laptops to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty there were no wifi drivers for broadcom 43xx installed afterwards. I had to use a cable to get into the internet. [Read More]