James Flores Bach and the pipe organ are my best friends

This one bugged me a lot. I have a full hd tv and I was staring at an awesome 640x480 distro of Ubuntu. Let's get on with it shall we?

Log in as root:

su - root

Stop gdm:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

Create xorg.conf file:

xorg -configure

(this generates /root/xorg.conf.new, move to /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

Generate "modeline" to insert into /etc/X11/xorg.conf under monitor section.

cvt 1920 1080 60

arguments: width height refresh

example output:

Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

Restart gdm:

/etc/init.d/gdm start

The new screen resolution should now be under display settings. Follow the steps again to add more screen resolutions.

For Windows users only:

Download iTunnel.

• This only works on jailbroken iPhones
• iTunes must be installed
• Use the package manager Cydia on your iPhone to download:
• OpenSSH
• Veency
• Make sure you have TightVNC viewer installed on your PC
• Install an SSH client such as PuTTY
• Unzip iTunnel
• To SSH:
• Run RunSSH.cmd
• Open up your SSH client and connect to 127.0.0.1 or localhost on port 22
• To VNC:
• Run RunVNC.cmd
• Open up TightVNC viewer and connect to 127.0.0.1 or localhost on port 5900

Wouldn't it be nice if the Mythbuntu distribution could email you output from the cronjobs? Below is a short guide to allow your Mythbuntu distribution to send emails:

Open terminal session and "su - root"

apt-get install mailutils

this installs exim4

Run:

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Keep these settings or adjust to suit yourself:
* This machine is an: Internet Site
* Keep machine name
* Listen on default IP (localhost)
* Relay for none
* DNS queries minimal - answer no
* maildir format in homedir
* split config - answer no

Test your email is working by issuing the command:

echo | mail email@domain.com

Check your spam box as well if it didn't arrive in your inbox.

Control-D in terminal to log out as a root and back to normal user

Run:

crontab -e

Add this to the first line:

MAILTO="youremail@domain.com"

Any output from cron will now be emailed to you.

Stupid worm/virus/trojan whatever it is stopped me from opening my drives. Download the program "Flash Disinfector". Works a charm. Might be worth also getting some anti-spyware to make sure it is gone. Hope this helps.

So recently I had the time to set up a VPN connection to my home computer over the last week. I used the community edition of SSL Explorer. It is really handy for when you need to access your data from anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection. The site here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/27644/111/ is definitely the best guide I have come across.

I thought I'd write this post up because I found it hard to find information on it. On another note, if the SSL Explorer Agent fails to sync, make sure you set proxy settings in another profile. Quite annoying if you have proxies at home and at other locations (hence the need for different profiles). Good luck!

EDIT: Also have the link to the SSL Explorer Configuration Guide PDF.

Since I have a mac at home which Andrew uses, I finally got around to get file sharing to work. All our music is on my external HDD hooked up to our main pc. I found out how to share it over the network and get the mac to access it using this website. Hope it works quickly for those who need this!