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One of the interesting features in Kodi is setting the country and time zone: Here is a picture tour of where to go. The other quick hint is that having a remote control might be an issue.    To set a web interface add-on as the default web UI, go to System -> Services -> Webserver and select that add-on for the Default value. Then go to the hostname (or IP address) of that HTPC+Port number. Note: Some platforms use port 80, which is the assumed port if no port is given in the address. Now you can use a touchpad with a browser or a laptop.  Setting up am entry in the local dns will make things easier. I like the fact that the cursor keys work great with the system. Personally I just use an old 600 mhz laptop to be the remote control. Allows you to use the internet if you need to or even just use an editor to take notes. That's it for now.

Do  you feel as if your palmtop is a one trick pony now. Can your palmtop do all this? They can! Either through a web browser or a remote desktop viewer.  having a local web server, you can install applications that will run without the internet but do work with the local intranet.There is even software that will emulate a computer desktop. Most palmtops have terminal server clients.  With the remote desktop viewer you can access another working computer on the network be it Linux, OS/x, or even Mswindows. You start the rdp (remote desktop protocol viewer) software and then enter the hostname address. Of you will need to set up a login and password on the host for if nothing else minimal security restrictions. Once your in, you can use the hosts as if that operating system was on your palmtop! Here we have access a remote Linux computer. You can even get a remote Raspberry Pi desktop, so the RPi does not need a monitor. For more inform...

Was thinking about doing a remote install with MSWindows 10. So I went to the Microsoft website to find out what to do. You need a special program to do the install. Oops if you are not running Microsoft Windows, you can not download the file. So I decided to read the documentation.  In reading the documentation, I find that you need a fully working Microsoft Windows machine to do the install. If I had a fully working machine, I would not need the software. Microsoft Fail. ------------------------------------ USE AT YOUR OWN RISK  Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10     Install Instructions         To install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10         IMPORTANT: You can install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 only on the full release of Windows 10 Professional or Windows 10 Enterprise.         ...

Try this at your own risk. From the kodi wiki: Follow this simple procedure: Open the receiver's plastic case using a small screw driver. Carefully pry around the case. Solder the wire to the receiver using the picture below Note: This might damage the casing of the dongle. 1 Color Coded Pinout If you're using a standard USB cable you should just be able to match the colors and solder away, but to be sure check your cable with a continuity tester according to the USB spec provided here .  Red = Positive Power (+5V DC) White = Data - Green = Data + Yellow = Unused Black = Ground (0V DC)   Normal usb connections: Pin Name Cable color Description 1 VCC Red +5 VDC 2 D- White Data - 3 D+ Green Data + 4 GND Black Ground   2 Lirc Config /etc/lirc/hardware.conf : #Chosen Remote Control REMOTE="None" REMOTE_MODULES="lir...

 Set up your own computer based radio. radio - locator .com is a good place to start for looking to find available stations. Many radio stations will let you listen to their live stream, Sometimes you can find and use the link on their web page. Sometimes you have to venture through web page html to find it the file and download it from their server. So if that file gets updated, you will need to get the file again. A play list might look like: $ cat klolfmaac.pls [playlist] File1=http://2243.live.streamtheworld.com:80/KLOLFMAAC_SC File2=http://2243.live.streamtheworld.com:3690/KLOLFMAAC_SC File3=http://2243.live.streamtheworld.com:443/KLOLFMAAC_SC Title1=KLOLFMAAC_SC Title2=KLOLFMAAC_SC-Bak Length1=-1 NumberOfEntries=3 Version=2 or $ cat koda-fm.m3u http://107.14.43.102:80/7/597/20097/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/koda-fm http://koda-fm.ng.akacast.akamaistream.net:80/7/597/20097/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/koda-fm http://koda-fm.ng.akacast...

Now let us take a look a remote music controller called mpd. With mplayer we could do everything from the command line, mpd we should be able to use the gui on the remote machine. We will not need to use ssh here either. You will want to set up your host machines with speakers as before. Then we need to add a new piece of software called mpd. It is available for a wide variety of systems including Android. http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients $ sudo apt-get install mpd Server does not have to have gui installed. Copy your music files to the server if they are not already there. Then you will want go edit the config file for you file settings and etc. $ sudo vim /etc/mpd.conf Once you have that done, you will need to go to the client machine and install the following: $ sudo apt-get install mpc gmpc Then go to the gui menu for the  sound and video.   Choose the gnome-music-player-client. Everything is gui from there. You will need to set the servernam...

Wrote a script a while back to put your ssh key on a remote system so you do not have to type in the password all the time. Found a few shortcomings with it and now have updated it. You will have to type in your password to login and complete the script process. installkey.sh # invoke with ./Installkey.sh servername # set up the .ssh dir if it does not exist DIRECTORY=",ssh" ssh $1 'if [ ! -d "$DIRECTORY" ];  then  mkdir $DIRECTORY ;chmod 700 $DIRECTORY ; fi' # copy the key scp $DIRECTORY/id_dsa.pub $1:~/. # install the key ssh $1 'cat id_dsa.pub >> $DIRECTORY/authorized_keys' ssh $1 'chmod 600 $DIRECTORY/authorized_keys ' # remove the public key you just copied ssh $1 'rm ~/id_dsa.pub'

Message of the day, Message of the day if the screen you see when you log into the command line. Usually if s short and mundane, You may want to jazz it up a little bit with some text graphics.Some of the settings for your computer are int he /etc directory. Message of the day or motd usually resides in this directory. Now if you add your message  or graphic to the regular motd file, it will usually get wiped out. What you can do is add your messages ad or graphics into a file call /etc/motd.tail. Then when you log in you will see your message. You will need to reboot to see the message.You can also edit /etc/issue that is used by mgetty for when you log into a serial port. (rs232).

More and more computers are going back to the command line. This is being done so that it takes less resources to run that system. It also makes it easier to have what is known as virtual machines all running on one piece of hardware, thereby saving money. That includes Microsoft products such as their server. Yes, they will have a product that runs without MSWindows. Just like the old DOS machines. With Linux, BSD, and etc have been doing this all along. Two invaluable tools are DVTM (a command line window manager and SCREEN (a command line connection or session  detacher/reattach). With SCREEN you can free yourself of that ssh or rlogin session and then reattach to the session later from the same or another computer. For details see: http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-screen-play/ . With DVTM you can have multiple windows or more than one usable prompt at a time. You could be working on your favorite  spreadsheet doing important reports while watching an...