Recently I’ve have been playing the great game League of Legends but my friends list has not been working. After dealing with the problem for several weeks, I’ve finally found the issue. I use Smoothwall for my router, and as Smoothwall users may know, it has a niffty IM proxy feature. Well, after playing with… Continue reading League of Legends Friends List and Smoothwall
Month: February 2010
XFCE Autologin and Autostart
With my media computer coming together nicely, I wanted to remove all user intervention such that the computer will boot directly to XBMC. The two primary obstacles to this are automatically logging in the user and automatically starting a program once in XFCE. I decided to use SLiM as my log-in manager since it is… Continue reading XFCE Autologin and Autostart
Intel D945GCLF2 and Surround Sound on Gentoo
I while back I purchased an Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard to play with. This board features the dual core Atom 330 processor in a nice mini-ITX form factor. I’ve recently set this up as a media center PC, running Gentoo and XBMC. I’ve been quite happy with its performance in this role, but there was one… Continue reading Intel D945GCLF2 and Surround Sound on Gentoo