So you have a Jailbroken Apple TV 2 and want install a specific version of XBMC or Kodi, this mini tutorial will show you how to do so. You might be wondering why would you not simply do: apt-get update apt-get remove org.xbmc.kodi-atv2 That would install the latest version of Kodi, which normally wouldn’t be a problem. However development of Kodi for the Apple TV 2 platform has come to an end, so eventually you might no longer be able to do this. Another reason might be you want to boot in to boot Kodi / XBMC directly when the Apple TV is powered on for ease of use by family members, this is not possible with the latest version of Kodi. First ssh in to your Jailbroken Apple TV, the default username is root and the default password is alpine. Now do: apt-get update – This updates the packages available from the repositories, it wont hurt to do this. Remove Previous versions of XBMC / Kodi: Work you way down the list below and copy / paste the commands which are highlighted in bold to remove and clean-up from any previous Xbmc / Kodi installs. rm -f *kodi*.deb – Deletes any…

In today’s world online privacy, regional blocks and censorship is becoming more and more of an issue. A lot of VPN services are appearing which aim to allow people to be anonymous when browsing the internet. However these VPN services present a few problems. The first is you have no idea what data is really logged, or even if anyone is snooping on what you are doing, the second is the cost. Often VPN services can be quite expensive and have limits on the amount of data that can be used each month. So what can you do? Well its very easy to set-up a secure VPN server on a Linux VPS (Virtual Private Server). On a VPS you have full root access, meaning you can do what you want and control who has access to the VPS. A basic VPS server can cost you as little as £2 a month, which is not a lot compared to paying for a VPN provider. In thus tutorial we are going to be using the most basic VPS from OVH, the VPS Classic 1. Link: VPS Servers from OVH The VPS Classic 1 has: 1x CPU core 1gb of ram 10gb of storage space 1x IPv4…

Welcome to my Kimsufi Windows Install Guide. OVH have some very cheap entry level dedicated servers which are branded under the Kimsufi name. The KS1 server which is currently £5 a month including VAT gets you a: Atom N2800 @1.86ghz Processor (2 cores, 4 threads) 2GB DDR3 ram 500GB sata hard drive 100mbps connection 1x IP V4 address Alternatively for £10 a month you can get the same server with 4GB of ram and a 1TB hard drive (KS2 Server) The only choice of OS for these server however is limited to Linux, OVH used to let you use your own Windows licence, however this is not an option any more. Not all is lost however, all OVH / Kimsufi servers offer a Linux based rescue system. This is where the servers hard drive is essentially mounted inside a Linux Live CD so you can perform diagnostics or troubleshoot any problems. As the OVH rescue system system gives direct access to the servers hard drive we can use this to deploy a sysprepped Windows install over the internet. Combined with an unattend.xml file this sysprepped Windows install is enough to deploy Windows Server 2012 R2 on the Kimsufi KS-1 and KS-2 servers and have it connected to the internet…

“SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate” is an error message Wordpress kept presenting to me when i was trying to integrate my Instagram / Twitter feed in to this blog. The good news is the fix is really easy, once you know how! Basically the problem was a PHP configuration issue on my server, i needed to have a list of up to date public Certificate Authorities defined in my php.ini file. I found a list of public Certificate Authorities that were extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file, these are used in the FireFox webbrowser. This list contained the certificates in PEM format, therefore could be directly used with curl / libcurl / php_curl, or with an Apache+mod_ssl webserver for SSL client authentication. How to fix the unable to get local issuer certificate problem: Downloaded the cacert.pem (mirror) which has been extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file Opened your PHP.ini file, the location of this will vary depending on your configuration. Then added the following line: curl.cainfo=C:\inetpub\cacert.pem Remember to change C:\inetpub\ to the path of your cacert.pem file. As my webserver is IIS i placed the cacert.pem in C:\inetpub so IIS had access to it. After the PHP configuration has been updated re-start your webserver, you should…