Installing Transmission 2.77 on CentOS 6.x 32bit

Tested on an ASUS EeeBox PC.

In order to install Transmission, you have two choices:

Install from the EPEL repository
It's super easy to do, but the version of the pacakge is a bit outdated (2.13 at the time of writing).

Build from a tarball
It's less easy to do, but you make sure you have a more recent version (2.77 at the time of writing).

I spent some time testing the various ways of installing to find the easiest approach. The one I chose is to first install the official package from the EPEL repository and then install over it the new version by building it from a tarball. The reason I am doing that is purely to save me some time and energy. The package installed with yum will also add the necessary script in /etc/init.d and create all the appropriate system entries.

Instead of writing a long document and process on how to install Transmission on your CentOS 6.x 32bit machine, I decided to create 3 shell scripts:

1. EPEL-installScript-CentOS
   This script will add the necessary files to allow the installation of the software coming from the EPEL repository and install the Transmission package available from it.
2. Transmission-installScript-CentOS
   This script will install all the necessary components to download all the packages needed to build the Transmission software. Note that Libevent has to be installed as well. CentOS 6.x comes with Libevent 1.x and the 2.x is needed.
3. Transmission-updateScript-CentOS
   This is the script you'll be using now and again if you wish to install a newer version of Transmission when it's released.

Feel free to download the scripts, use them as they are or adapt them.

Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption - Network Computing

Here is an interesting article I came across today:

Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption - Network Computing

Importing photos from an iPhone using CentOS 6.3

For some reason, plugging an iPhone to a computer running CentOS 6.3 wasn't allowing me to access the pictures I had on it or import them. In order to have it work and being able to browse the pictures, here is what I did:

1. Plugged the iPhone using the USB cable
2. Took the iPhone in my hands and unlocked it using the "slide to unlock"
3. Opened Nautilus and browsed the content of the iPhone

Not unlocking the iPhone would allow to mount the iPhone, browse the content but wouldn't display the pictures in the "DCIM" folder.

Microsoft Excel - Concatenation

Here is a very useful formula when manipulating data within Microsoft Excel:

=PROPER(A2&" "&B2)

It will tell the software to create a value for the cell using the content of two other cells. It is known as concatenation.

source http://www.mrexcel.com/tip074.shtml

FSMO placement and optimization on Active Directory domain controllers

Are you new to Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure? There are a few basic stuff you need to know first.

Here is some good piece of information to start your journey:

FSMO placement and optimization on Active Directory domain controllers

Tweaks.com Logon Changer for Microsoft Windows 7

Tired of the official Windows 7 logon wallpaper? There are many geeky ways to change it. No need to be geeky, there's an app for that!

To read the full story and download what you need, have a look here:
Tweaks.com Logon Changer for Microsoft Windows 7

Change the Login Screen Wallpaper in OS X Lion

If you're tired of the cold unfriendly login screen of your Mac OS X Lion, here are some useful keywords:

NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/

To read the full story, have a look here:
Change the Login Screen Wallpaper in OS X Lion

Tino Rossi - Petit papa Noël

Adele - Someone Like You

Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Access User ~/Library Folder in OS X Lion

Here is an article on how to display the user's library folder:

Access User ~/Library Folder in OS X Lion

How to change Backup Exec GUI language setting for troubleshooting purposes.

Enterprise Support - Symantec Corp. - How to change Backup Exec GUI language setting for troubleshooting purposes.