James Lloyd

Recently I have successfully migrated away from SKY HD and from Freeview+ to an entirely XBMC based solution.  Most importantly this solution currently has a very high WAF .  My setup is built using XBMC live in an overly powerful PC in a rather nice silverstone media center case. My current problem is now I have relegated all of my media to the lounge,  using the ipod dock in the kitchen with a meagre 16GB Ipod seems positively lacking when, your media centre is connected directly to a 5Tb NAS.  What happens now is you play music in the lounge and turn it way up to a probably neighbour unsuitable level to be able to properly enjoy it in the kitchen.  This is why I crave multi room audio, I wrote a while back why I think XBMC is a far better and cheaper solution than the Sonos solution, though Sonos still do have the killer feature present and correct.

I have this php script currently running on my nas to let me know if I have any new mail.  It works with gmail.com, googlemail.com and google app address’.  I simply use cron to execute the script every 15 minutes. i.e. (0,15,30,45 17-23 * * * php /var/www/checkgmail.php > /dev/null   #Check Gmail) 1: <?php 2: $emailaddress = 'someemailaddress@gmail.com' ; // i.e. bob@gmail.com or bob@bobsdomain.com if you use google apps 3: $password = 'somepassword' ; // email password 4: $xbmcaddress = '192.168.1.1' ; // IP or hostname of your xbmc 5: $xbmcport = '8080' ; // port the xbmc web server is running on. 6: 7: 8: $domain = explode( '@' ,$emailaddress); 9: if ($domain[ '1' ] == 'gmail.com' || $domain[ '1' ] == 'googlemail.com' ) 10: { 11: $use_googleapps = false ; 12: } else { 13: $use_googleapps = true ; 14: } 15: if ($use_googleapps == t...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="MMS Enable your 2g Iphone"] [/caption] I have succesfully got MMS working on my Iphone 2g with BT Total Broadband anywhere / BTMobile, and have solved the problem where the mms APN settings do not save.

The revenge this time its personal! K I just setup sendmail to relay using gmail again,  thought I better post what I have done as my original now out of date post is still getting quite a lot of views. This is based on my Ubuntu 8.10 Server ( 2.6.27-11-server) all patched up todays date and then I did the below.

Im Currently spending all my spare spare time,  building 2statereviews.com with Darren Watt .  The site is based on Darrens long time Film reccomendation system which has only 2 states See! or Dont See!.   Simplicity at its best, the site allows you to search for films and vote See, Dont See for them, warning though its quite addictive.    The site is currently 80% feature complete ( this figure changes constantly as I make up new features).

Thought its probably worth explaining what I think Version 1 of phpadadmin would look and be able to do.  Things it needs to be able to do: Allow any user to edit their own Active Directory attributes.  [ In Current Release ] Allow an administrator to determine which attributes can be edited [ In Current Release ] Allow an administrator to dictate a range of choices for a field 1 [ In Current Release ] Allow the users access to all that directory information by providing a powerful search Allow the administrator to determine which fields can be used to search on and which fields can be returned in the search. Users contacts details export to vCard format Allow phone number to be formatted in a way that can be picked up by various SIP softphones i.e. phone://<number> etc.

Not a lot of new functionality added here mainly changing the back end to function better, and allowing you to set your ad password without first having to have you ad password set :S. The environment checker now tests : If Seamless authentication is enabled correctly in IIS manager If it can connect to the mysql db if php extension is in place and if it can get any info out of AD using your current user.