Personal blog of Josh Lyon
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Windows Phone 7 Development
My company recently started the process of switching to Exchange and as part of the process I am beta testing Windows Phone 7 devices for them. At the time of writing this article, I’m using the Samsung Focus. The started me off with the LG Quantum which was a pretty abysmal device. It was heavy…
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How to Restart Jailbroken Apple TV
There are a number of different ways to restart your Apple TV. Depending on your setup, each one has it’s own benefits. I’ve listed a few of the different methods below. MENU + DOWNIf you press and hold the MENU and DOWN button on the Apple TV remote for 6 seconds, the Apple TV will…
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Fix: Apple TV 2G Wifi Broken After Jailbreak
After doing an untethered jailbreak on my Apple TV 2G (ATV2) with GreenPois0n RC6, I noticed that if I rebooted the Apple TV my wifi would not reconnect. Disconnecting the power and plugging back in would not resolve the issue. After a bit of research, I figured out a quick fix to getting my wifi…
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XBMC Dharma Confluence Location
After upgrading my XBMC installation to Dharma Beta 1, I wanted to modify the menu of Confluence to add a button directly for Last.fm to make things easier for my wife. It was driving me crazy that I couldn’t figure out where the Confluence folder was, but after searching through some of the XBMC logs,…
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XBMC Live Drives Mounted as Odd IDs
Drives Mounted as Odd IDs? (UUID) If your drives are showing up as long IDs that look similar to “5f3d2340-b3c7-4c47-ba9a-ceaa9e699a4f” (from df -T command), there are a number of things that may have caused this. I’ve found that if my partitions are all labeled and the nodiskmount flag is still present in my grub configuration,…
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How to Install NewzBook on XBMC Live
NewzBook is an application I wrote to centrally manage my downloads and media. It has integration points with various indexing sites, SABnzbd, media management, etc. I originally designed the application for the Popcorn Hour, but I am now using XBMC again. I personally use the XBMC Live variant, so I’ve written up some instructions so…
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Set XBMC to Automount Drives
Whenever I install XBMC, one of the first settings I change is I enable auto mounting of drives. It’s a relatively simple change, but requires you modify a file on the filesystem. For Ubuntu Lucid 10.04: I’ve noticed that it’s not necessary to manually remove the nodiskmount option on 10.04 (grub2). The modifications that I…
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Determine Hard Disk Free Space from Shell
I have always noticed that when people ask the question ‘How do I figure out how much hard drive space I have left’ as it relates to the Linux / *nix shell, people always respond telling people to use the following command: df Output: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb5 56870784…
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Send Command to XBMC to Start Music
You can use the following command to remotely start music playing on XBMC. The examples below were sent while I was SSH’ed into the XBMC machine. As you’ll notice from the music paths, I am using some of the ‘special’ paths which call up the LastFM tags of Rap and Alternative. Start the LastFM Rap…
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Upgrade XBMC Live to latest SVN
See below for some short instructions on how to upgrade your existing XBMC Live installation to the latest SVN version. These instructions should also work for regular XBMC Linux users as well. It is particularly important to update your XBMC to the latest SVN version if you plan on using some of the latest and…
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