How-To: Host and IRC Server (with No-IP)

Special Thanks to: http://raspadmin.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/irc-server-on-the-raspberry-pi/

First things first: Make sure you can Port-Forward, this is a must.

First we need to install the IRC Daemon (IRCd), type the following into your command line

sudo apt-get install ircd-hybrid

Next we need to change the .conf file, bascially the settings file

sudo nano /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf

You should now see a long list of settings, you can do the following settings or just copy mine

1. Under the listen { section change host = "127.0.0.1" to host = "0.0.0.0"

2. Under the operator { section change to user = "*@*"

3. Change any server name and server description settings at the top of the page

4. Save the .conf file (Command + O)

Now to start the server sudo /etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid stop to reload the settings

Then sudo /etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid start to start the server

Now, on a local machine try connection to your Pi's IP Adress (most times 192.167. something) the port should be 6667 (standard IRC port)

If all went well and you connect, open port 6667 and connect to your IP (to find type curl ifconfig.me into terminal)

Getting No-IP to work if you have a Dynamic IP

Special thanks to: http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2012/06/raspberry-pi-access-from-internet-using.html

No-IP is used to automatically update IP address with a web redirect, before doing these steps, make sure to set up a No-IP.com account

1. In the terminal, create the folder for the No-IP software

mkdir /home/pi/noip

cd /home/pi/noip

2. Download the software

wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz

3. Extract the software

tar vzxf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz

4. Go to the extracted folder

cd noip-2.1.9-1

5. Install the software (you'll be asked for no-ip login info)

sudo make
sudo make install

6. Run the software

sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2

Raspberry Pi Ideas

In no specific order here are my future plans for my Raspberry Pi

1. IRC Server (Done)

2. TeamSpeak 3 server (difficult)

3. IP Camera (meh.)

4. Weather Display Station (easy)

5. MAME arcade (easy)

6. File Host (easy)

7. Movie Player (easy)

8. Car Computer (difficulty is in power/display)

9. Wirless Access Point (Wifi Router) - (required Access Point wifi card)

10. GPS device recorder/transmitter (same a Car Computer)

11. Twitter Board (like AOTS) (easy)

Anyone still reading?

Please comment below if you are still an active reader...

It's Here!

My Raspberry Pi has finally arrived  I have updated the "Future Plans" list below to show what I have done, I will add tutorials later this month.

My New Toy: Raspberry Pi

"The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming."

- RaspberryPi.org

Remix To Song

Just wrote in some drum beats I sampled from Two Minutes to Midnight - Justice, it sounds 10000 times better now. I may get around to posting it sometime. Other news!

Updated my beta test list here it is now!

• Age of Empires Online
• All Points Bulletin
• All Points Bulletin: Reloaded
• APOX
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• Battlefield: Heroes
• Battlefield: Play4Free
• Black Prophecy
• Bloodline Champions
• Champions Online
• DC Universe Online
• Dragon Age Legends
• LittleBigPlanet
• LittleBigPlanet 2
• Lord of the Rings
• MAG
• ModNation Racers
• Need For Speed: World
• Playstation Home
• Resistance 2
• Rift
• Uncharted 2
• World of Tanks

That is what I can remember...

Homefront Review

Homefront is a game about the United States being occupied by a unified North Korea. That is about all I got from the single player, you didn't really feel like you were in the game much. The single player campaign was short and bland. Shoot them, press this button, call in air strikes and the always present sniper mission. And that's the good part of the game.

The online play is riddled with flaws and hackers. The only fun thing I found to do in snipe because the snipers are so overpowered it really means one shot - one kill. The maps are over decarated flat maps and the only truly good map in my opinion is Angel Island and no one plays on it. There are over 400 servers running maps but only 30 or so actually have players and even then your lucky if their are more than  four people on a map. The match making is terrible. When you go to refresh the server list it either crashes or gives you a total of around ten server that are all empty.

Overall I give Homefront a 2 out of 5 because it has some fun parts but they are overshadowed by the bad.

Bored

So this week has been really boring, I wanted to pick up Homefront for PC but I can't until this weekend. Also am trying to decide if I should spend my money on turntables or not. I one to get something I would use a lot and I don't know if turntables is it. So much on my mind.

Lots of different things

Okay so a lot has happend since my last post. Here are some of them.

I have decided to change the turntables I am going to buy, I originally was going to buy Numark Mixtrack Pro but have decided to buy two Pioneer CDJ-200s. It is a little pricer ($600 plus a mixer) but I think it will be worth the money.

I have gotten my money back from the person who hacked my PayPal account. Thank God.

I passed 100 Followers with my blog.

I am making more edits to the song that I wrote on my 808.

Angry

So, today I got an email about a three $50 purchases that "I" had made using my PayPal account. I never bought anything worth $50 and certainly not three times. I had been hacked and someone had bought a game back three times. This makes me mad to no end! I don't even have $150 on my PayPal account. I ended up getting my money back. So help the person who did this if I find them.

100 Followers Soon!

I am so close to 100 followers!

Cannot Wait!

If you read my blog any you know I am a musician and have recently gotten into electronic music (House, Techno, etc) Well I wanted to get myself some turntables (DJ things) along with the Keyboard and 808 I already have. Well there was a price drop where I am buying them so I will have them by the 20th! I will post some remixes ASAP

EDIT: I had orginally chosen the Numark Mixtrack but have decided to go Pro with the Mixtrack so I do not know when I will purchase it. If you have any good cheap websites that sell new Numark Mixtrack Pro, post them in comment please!

Minecraft House Decoration

In my house on Minecraft I have many paintings and a fireplace, all of the floor is covered with colored wool and I have a bedroom, library, sun room and a deck. I have four levels of my house. Here is a tour

Must Have's of Technologic People

Based of my own experience here are some must haves for tech people on the go, in no order at all.

1. Portable Hard Drive (Greater than 250 Gigs)
This is to store files that you can actually use, sure an 8 gig stick would work for most people but your not most people are you? I use my to carry around Minecraft, Utorrent, and large files.

2. Camcorder (1080p is cheap now)
Who knows we you'll need to show someone how to do something to their hardware? I have a Kodak Zi8.

3. PC clean up kit (Microsoft Security Essentials, Firefox, Chrome)
This goes into your Portable Hard Drive, it saves grandma's computer a lot.

4. A basic understanding of 32 and 64-bit machines and what OS they are running (not all software will run on 64 or 32 or different OS's)
 About 1/3 of all files download will ask what your hardware is, I have a 64-Bit Windows 7 Ultimate, some thing will not work with my computer. More on this for another post

5. Basic skills using Adobe software (photoshop, illustator, dreamweaver)
If you want to build a website, edit photos or make a poster learn these. Adobe is the god of design.

A brief view of Daft Punk's gear

This is just some of what Daft Punk's gear is.

JazzMutant Lemur
As seen at The Grammys with Kanye West
This is the most recent, most bad ass price of gear in the duo's arsenal. The Lemur for shot comes basically as a blank slate and you build whatever you want on it. It works as a controller for Ableton Live and other software like it. The Lemur can control any and all settings such as fade, volume, tempo and even as a digital turn table. The price is around 3,000 USD.

Moog Voyager
One of famed synths of Dr. Moog (real doctor, unlike Dr. Dre and Dr. Beat) this synth is the sound behind Discovery and Homework albums. This is considered an old synth but still being emulated today. My very own Roland MC-808 has a Moog Voyager sound. The Voyager is an analog synth.

More later, off to work

Suggestion for Topic

I would like to hear what my followers would like to read about, here are some areas I am skilled in.

Percussion (Drums, music, etc.)
Technology (hardware, software, internet)
Design (Web, art, architecture)

Any topic is fine, those are just suggestions.

Your Best Friend

You have friends and then you have best friends, mine is a guy named Mitch, me and Mitch started out the way most best friends do... by hating each other. After spending more time with him than my parents due to Marching Band, Jazz Band, Drum Line, Winter Percussion and hanging out. All of that in one year and we've been doing this for three years. Plus all the time before any of the bands started we hung out.

Mitch is the kind of friend you can tell any joke to, talk to about girls and things. I have know this kid before he started to date, once he did it creeped me the hell out. How could my best friend like a girl that much, I had girlfriends before he did but he never seemed interested, he wasn't gay just didn't have time.

Now it has come to a point in my life that I value my friends more and more each day. Mitch is still my best friend.

Local News

The local news in my state is so terrible, they did a piece based off the homeless man who became a radio host. They asked local homeless to sing and announce things, it was so bad it was on The Daily Show.

New Mix

I am working on a new mix, Ill post updates of the song. First one here

http://soundcloud.com/hunt3r/call-of-the-moog

It not perfect, feel free to comment and listen to my other stuff!

Runescape - Everyone's Old Game

If you ever played games on your PC from around 2001 to Present you have played Runescape. If you played in the good ol' days you know that the PVP and Trade was the main point in that game unless you put out money. It seems that Jagex has brought back PVP and Free Trade along with a lot of new features. If you have played on your character recently I urge you to go back and play for an hour or so.