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I guess the fail2ban firewall rules aged out as the same suspects are back trying to use my server to send spam: Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]> Comcast and RoadRunner obviously don't give a shit that their systems are spewing spam as I've emailed them several times about this but they have apparently […]

I've been very happy with Ubuntu for quite some time – moving through its various versions before settling on Xubuntu for my laptop because I loath Unity and Gnome was getting as bad, and Kubuntu seemed to have apps crashing on me every few minutes. I got Xubuntu installed on a HP G7 dual boot […]

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Two of the Android Apps (DAAP and SharePlay) are quite able to crash it. Luckily I can just ssh onto the server and restart it and with the db_rebuild level set to 2 it only takes a few minutes (as it adds the directories for file monitoring) for it to start up compared to several […]

Forked-Daapd Success!  Well its now working I think – 4 levels of DB rebuild from completely rebuild every time to do absolutely nothing every time (handy for totally static collections). Right now I'm doing a complete DB rebuild as I've messed a few things up then I'll back the songs DB up and then try each […]

it hasn't. I  can have the DB do a complete rebuild at start or just do a rescan but the other options for the moment don't work. This is because its dispatching processes and so my flag variables are getting picked up as being set by the dispatched processes when they really shouldn't be. I've […]

Well the crash course in Git and some head scratching as I tried to remember what little C skills I have has paid off. I've now got a modified and working Forked-Daapd server running and its all stored in GitGub. Now all I need to do is work out how to fix the daap server […]

Went mad and decided to try to fix some of the problems in the now unsupported forked-daapd application in Ubuntu 12.0.4 C is not my forte and trying to work out what is going on in code using GCD concepts and which is pretty much stripped of comments is not easy. View this post on […]

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