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2013-05-06, 12:58
Assume you have setup your server for your media running a headless ubuntu linux. Which utilities to install, beside sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato, headphones and maraschino?
Are there cool applications which I do not know about?
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2013-05-10, 01:02
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-10, 01:10 by teeedubb.)
Handbrake for converting videos.
Wine + dbpoweramp for converting music.
Virtualbox for virtual machines.
Xbmc to serve up media via upnp.
Mythtv to record/watch live TV. With mythtv you can set your server to suspend when not in use and have it stay awake when downloading, converting etc and wake automatically for recordings.
Shepherd for high quality EPG (Australia only)
Ssh so you can securely connect to your server from any where in the world.
Wake on lan/wan to wake your server remotely.
Powertop to see how you can reduce power consumption for your PC.
Hdparm to spin down HDDs when not in use.
Rsync to backup important files to other computers/drives etc, sync media and backup to/from your android phone
Probably more things that I can't think of right now...
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Ajenti seems to be working but to get the nice graphs you need Munin, which is not the nicest of team player with Ubuntu 12.10