How amazing it is to have same music playing all around your home and be able to control it using your mobile phone
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Logitech Harmony One
I bought a Logitech Harmony One remote for our Home Media Centre/Theatre/Blu-ray/Sky HD mutant setup to replace 5 remotes with one and had a lot troubles getting it to work with our crappy tv which is Philips 42PFL5522D/05. If you own this tele and you just bought Harmony One save your self some time and choose 42PFL5522D and not 42PFL5522D/05 as model of TV when setting the remote up. This will make switching inputs work.
ec2 + EBS (freezing the machine)
I had some problems with ec2 and EBS recently when mounting EBS drive with XFS on it. Basically the machine was frozen and only way to get it back was request to detach EBS drive and reboot the ec2 machine, I found a fix here. Continue reading
How to fix Java on Debian Lenny
This post was previously about getting Amazon ec2 API tools working on Debian Lenny when seeing something like this:
Unexpected error:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1611)
After number of comments it looked as a generic solution to java related problems so I’ve change the title.
Here is how to fix it Java on Lenny: Continue reading
Debian Lenny and quota on /home
There is a small how to here however it describes how to install on / partition. Here are clear instructions for /home. Continue reading