Beginners Guide: Quick & Dirty

WARNING WORK IN PROGRESS Warning use of these instruction may harm your computer.

Use them at your own risk.

This guild assumes a stock as you can get, to fresh install as possible, configuration. With one core and at least one orbitor.

My goal here is to have a collection of useful hacks for the frustrated beginner

Whats the ip address of my orbiter:

stub - admin page guide

Gaining root on an orbiter:

ssh 192.168.80.1

sudo su

ssh ipaddressoforbitor

Fixing MythTV "deinterlace filter hell" a per orbiter hack:

ssh 192.168.80.1

sudo su

ssh ipaddressoforbitor

mv /usr/pluto/bin/MythTV_Player /home/mythtv/MythTV_Player.bkup

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real /usr/pluto/bin/MythTV_Player

now your settings wont get over written on next startup.