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Category Archives: Sheevaplug
Windows Live Writer, lighttpd, and WordPress xmlrpc.php
I love Windows Live Writer. I use it now for all my blog editing. Recently though, after setting up my new SheevaPlug as my server and using lighttpd instead of apache as my webserver I found that I can’t use it. I got the following error trying to add my blog to my new install of WLW:
An error occurred while attempting to connect to your blog:
Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the blog server was invalid:
Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server
You must correct this error before proceeding.
Turning My SheevaPlug Into A Web Server
After I got Ubuntu running on my Plug, I started going about turning it into what I originally planned for it; LAMP, UPnP, and Torrent server.
I first found a great resource for playing with the plug: OpenPlug.org. The wiki in particular has some good tips, the first of which I followed below.
Install Root FS on SDHC Card
By default, the SheevaPlug has 512MB of NAND flash memory for storage, and 512MB or RAM. When you boot your plug from NAND it copies the necessary files to a RAM disk (a virtual disk on RAM which disappears when the plug is powered off). If I understand correctly, this will in effect reduce the available RAM since some of it is used by the file system.
SheevaPlug Unboxing and Ubuntu Install
It finally arrived! I woke up last week to find that there was a small box waiting for me to open.
It was packaged surprisingly well. I’ve never purchased a dev kit before, but this was packaged better than any retail gadget I’ve purchased. Very impressed.
Installing Ubuntu
I originally wanted to install Gentoo, however I really didn’t want to go through the work of learning how to compile for this device,especially considering Marvel has already included an Ubuntu image already optimized for the device.
A $173.40 Toothbrush and More Server Shenanigans!
I went to the dentist today for the first time in over 3 years. I know, and I’m a bad flosser too. Since I don’t have dental insurance, the cost for the cleaning and x-rays was $173.40 which included a complimentary toothbrush. Why the toothbrush? Why not just knock $100 off my total bill? I would like that much more than a red toothbrush and some floss.
Posted in Acer Aspire One, Personal, Sheevaplug
Tagged bittorrent, firefly daap server, gentoo, lamp server, samba, server, subsonic media server, upnp server
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