How to get Airplay to work on a ddwrt router

I just brought an Airplay device (an Audio Pro Allroom Air One) because I wanted to stream music from my iPhone and Synology NAS. I followed the installation instructions and connected the Airplay device to the network. The device appeared as an option when playing music on the phone. However, the streaming started and after … Read more

How to test if Bacula-fd is running

I just installed a new Bacula client but for some reason the server could not connect to it. I found this out by trying to get the status of the client on the server with the following command: Here is the things that I checked on the server. Step 1 – Check that the service … Read more

The Teamviewer daemon is not running – please start the daemon ubuntu

I have just started using Teamviewer on Ubuntu 13.10 to help a few people setup some software on their computers. When I try and launch it pops up a dialogue saying: The TeamViewer daemon is not running! Please start the daemon (needs root permissions) before running TeamViewer teamviewer –daemon start …. Trying “sudo teamviewer –daemon … Read more

How to make Teamviewer work on Ubuntu 13.10 – install lib32asound2?

I had a problem installing Teamviewer on Ubuntu 13.10. This is an awesome tool for helping to remote desktop into other Linux or Windows machines. I downloaded the .deb file but when installing it complained: unresolvable dependency: lib32asound2 I did some research and some various solutions including installing the package which has been removed from … Read more

How to reset your Apple password

I forgot the password to my Macbook Pro and it turns out that there aren’t very many short guides on this. However, it turns out that it is very easy to reset the password on a Macbook. Step 1 – Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold … Read more