CouchPotato 190e1d2c Update: Installation and Upgrade
CouchPotato, is an awesome automatic movie downloader and organizer and a perfect companion for your XBMC media center. A new update (190e1d2c) is now available for CouchPotato. This post describes the...
View ArticleEnable and configure OpenELEC Samba share on Raspberry Pi
Configuring OpenELEC Samba share allows you to remotely access your Raspberry Pi‘s SD card and any attached USB drives over the network on other computers. This can come in handy if you want to...
View ArticlephpMyAdmin 4.1.6 Released: Installation and Upgrade
phpMyAdmin is an awesome web-based database management tool. Learning phpMyAdmin can come in very handy for bloggers and web-developers. This post introduces the recently released phpMyAdmin 4.1.6...
View Article10 Tweaks to improve XBMC performance on Raspberry Pi
So you want to improve XBMC performance on Raspberry Pi. Understandable. Let’s face it Raspberry Pi‘s modest hardware specs is significantly below a low-end HTPC. But it is by design and nothing can...
View ArticleqBittorrent v3.1.8 Released: Installation and Upgrade
qBittorrent is a lightweight bittorrent client for Linux and other platforms. Its specialty compared to Deluge or Transmission, is the ease of installation and configuration. This post introduces the...
View ArticlephpMyAdmin 4.1.7 Released: Installation and Upgrade
phpMyAdmin is an awesome web-based database management tool. Learning phpMyAdmin can come in very handy for bloggers and web-developers. This post introduces the recently released phpMyAdmin 4.1.7...
View ArticleHow to overclock Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC?
This post explains how to overclock Raspberry Pi OpenELEC media center. In Part 1 and Part 2 of my comparison of Xbian, OpenELEC, and Raspbmc, I concluded that Xbian was the fastest and most responsive...
View ArticlephpMyAdmin 4.1.7 Released: Installation and Upgrade
phpMyAdmin is an awesome web-based database management tool. Learning phpMyAdmin can come in very handy for bloggers and web-developers. This post introduces the recently released phpMyAdmin 4.1.7...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Guide to Raspberry Pi OpenELEC Media Center Setup
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View ArticleWe Moved! Welcome to htpcBeginner
For the past two years, we have been making your HTPC and Linux Home Server administration easier by writing several simple tutorials at www.LinuXplained.com. LinuXplained (or LinuX eXplained) is a...
View ArticleSABnzbd 0.7.17 Released: Installation and Upgrade
SABnzbd is a free and open source newsgrabber that makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating almost all tasks. It is a must-have companion for media center enthusiasts for apps...
View ArticleHow to clean wp_commentmeta and wp_postmeta tables?
If you use WordPress and have been blogging for a while, the chances are your wp_commentmeta and wp_postmeta tables are huge and significantly larger than the actual wp_comments and wp_posts tables....
View ArticleInstall Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr as a home server
In a few days Trusty Tahr will be released into the wild. So I decided I will start writing a series of posts on how to setup a home server using Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr Server Edition. To start of...
View Article12 Days of Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr
Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr was announced in October 2011 and believe it or not April 17th, 2014 is almost here. The focus for this 20th release of Ubuntu has been on developing an operating system...
View ArticleVideo: How to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr?
Recently, I wrote a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trust Tahr. This post presents a video guide to accomplish the same thing.Video: How to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr? is a...
View ArticleThe easiest way to install Ubuntu Server from USB
I recently showed how to install Ubuntu 14.04 Server edition. At least, couple of readers wanted to know how to install Ubuntu Server from USB. Ubuntu USB install is very simple but a lot of Linux...
View ArticleInstall GUI on Ubuntu server 14.04 Trusty Tahr
I showed you how to setup a home server with Ubuntu 14.04. Now let us see how to install a GUI on Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trust Tahr. Is it necessary to do a Ubuntu server GUI install? Server...
View ArticleVideo: Install lightweight Gnome desktop on Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr
Recently, I wrote a tutorial on how to install lightweight Gnome desktop on Ubuntu 14.04 Trust Tahr. This post presents a video guide to accomplish the same thing.Video: Install lightweight Gnome...
View ArticleForce Ubuntu boot into terminal by default
So you may ask why would I want to make Ubuntu boot into terminal by default. Well, this post is specifically drafted for Ubuntu server, which is typically recommended to be left at commandline until a...
View ArticleVideo: Make Ubuntu boot to command line by default
Recently, I wrote a tutorial on how to make Ubuntu boot to command line by default. This post presents a video guide to accomplish the same thing.Video: Make Ubuntu boot to command line by default is a...
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