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Users / Re: Wizard -> Email setup - cannot make it work

« on: July 07, 2015, 09:26:24 pm »

I did not - the last upgrade I did is as indicated in my signature. I will do an image back up, have a go at an upgrade, and get back to you.

Thanks again for your time.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Wizard -> Email setup - cannot make it work

« on: July 06, 2015, 08:01:45 pm »

Thank you so much for the reply.

Unfortunately the fix does not appear to work.

My Configure_Postfix_interactive.sh http://pastebin.com/a5y5HtmS

(I changed 3 "postmap"s to "/usr/sbin/postmap" in total).

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Wizard -> Email setup - cannot make it work

« on: July 05, 2015, 02:38:12 pm »

Hi all, hope you're all well.

I am looking at setting up an email account with Gmail on LinuxMCE, but not having much luck in that I don't receive the test email. I have attached my settings. I have tried manual setup as well. As you can see the "Response:" from sending a test message is blank.

From the wiki this looks straightforward, and is known to be working in 1004 (I will get round to upgrading at some point...). Any pointers would be much appreciated!

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: linuxmce.org - responsive + light redesign

« on: March 04, 2015, 01:36:03 pm »

Really cool.

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Users / Re: Need some dedicated testers.

« on: January 20, 2015, 01:38:47 pm »

Else I'll need to invest some time to relaunch the old orbiters on our phones in order to have a working one... We use this mainly to control our house, so it's very usefull/necessary for us.

Time well spent! And keep it installed so you have a temporary orbiter ready to use for when the guys are working on qOrbiter.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Really basic noob questions

« on: January 05, 2015, 05:14:53 pm »

Press F7 (I think it is) on the system that is playing and it will bring up an orbiter onscreen that you can use to control the system.  The other option is to choose the room that is playing from another MD.

That is correct. F6, F7 and F8 are the magic buttons if using a keyboard (so make sure any mini keyboards you buy have those!)

F6 brings up the chapter/seek "rose" (arrows)
F7 brings up the main menu as phenigma says
F8 brings up the lighting/volume "rose" (arrows)

That might only be for the posh overlay (UI2) thinking about it, so it might just be F7 if you're using the basic (UI1) overlay. Have a play!

What is your chosen MD system? There are ways and means of making it into a PXE machine if it's not supported by default......

Have fun, and persevere, it's well worth it ;-)

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Need some dedicated testers.

« on: October 29, 2014, 06:36:48 pm »

"Moral of the story is, I'm watching PCU on my Raspberry PI, being controlled by my Android - do you guys understand what's going on? Do you understand how much this changes the game for LinuxMCE? I'm just asking. Just asking questions here".

....is probably the best thing I have heard ever.

Good on you.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: RF remote, gyration replacement

« on: October 28, 2014, 05:45:57 pm »

...I should also add that in terms of "feel", every device I've tried feels different (in terms of cursor movement). You always get used to it eventually I find.

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Users / Re: RF remote, gyration replacement

« on: October 28, 2014, 05:44:31 pm »

I have tried several cheap gyro mini keyboards, and found this one ticks all the boxes for me. 14 quid.

Slightly weird is that the buttons are swapped, but when you are using it it kind of makes sense (closer to your thumb). Battery lasts nearly forever. F keys are all there and don't require shift/function to be pressed. Good range. Also has a card slot in case that's useful for you. My only gripe is that it doesn't have a laser pointer, but to be fair it's only the cats who suffer.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190897144856

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?

« on: October 03, 2014, 10:05:43 am »

Thanks for the expert help guys. My 10.04 installation is showing "Installed: 4.1-2ubuntu3.4" which matches the candidate, so looks like I'm good.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?

« on: October 02, 2014, 11:20:36 am »

Saw that but didn't twig that it was the issue I was having, thanks.

I followed the steps to make dash the default shell. I guess that solves the problem in itself.

I tried to then upgrade bash, but it said it was at the newest version - as far as I am aware it never got upgraded. So in any event I hope I'm safe.

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?

« on: October 01, 2014, 04:12:40 pm »

I'm getting the following error:

Code: [Select]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  bash-doc
Recommended packages:
  bash-completion
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bash
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 172 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/647kB of archives.
After this operation, 57.3kB disk space will be freed.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  bash
Authentication warning overridden.
(Reading database ... 132533 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bash 4.1-2ubuntu3 (using .../bash_4.1-2ubuntu3.4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bash ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-2ubuntu3.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/bin/sh', which is also in package dash 0:0.5.5.1-3ubuntu2
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/man/man7/bash-builtins.7.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man7/builtins.7.gz (builtins.7.gz) in auto mode.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-2ubuntu3.4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have tried "sudo apt-get install --true-upgrade bash" and "sudo apt-get install --reinstall bash" also.

Cheers,
Matt.

EDIT: Could I chroot from a live CD or something? If yes, to what directory? Or have I misunderstood how one uses chroot?

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Users / Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?

« on: October 01, 2014, 01:20:01 pm »

Yeah I was afraid somebody might say that :-)

Is there any way to upgrade only the packages affected by this issue?

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?

« on: October 01, 2014, 10:08:51 am »

Not wanting to start a panic or anything, but thought I should ask the question seeing as we are all using Linux and not only that, using it as a gateway/router.

I had an email come round at work warning us of this potential weakness. It was recommended we run the following command...

env X="() { :;} ; echo vulnerable" /bin/sh -c "echo this is a test

...to see if we are vulnerable. If I am to believe this test, then apparently I am.

What can we do, if anything?

Cheers,
Matt.

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Users / Re: Why Do Media Directors Exist?

« on: September 30, 2014, 01:45:12 pm »

For non-Dianemo users, I think I am right in saying that no option exists for controlling a lightweight non-MD no-orbiter generic media device?

I think phenigma's work on the RPi MD looks exciting and I'm looking forward to trying it, but if there were an option to install some generic media software onto RPi, and control that via the standalone touch screen orbiters, that would be interesting as well.

Cheers,
Matt.