I have finally made the jump from windows on all of the home pcs now and just re-installed my sons Acer aspire 5738pz laptop with lubuntu which is perfect for his needs (he is 5 years old!). The main pre-requisite was to get Minecraft working perfectly which in my opinion runs better with Oracle's Java 7 instead of openjdk. This is how to do it:

1. Make sure to get rid of any crap if you have already tried installing java 7.

This has been a royal pain in the arse to figure out for me. Firstly, because the kernel for the latest edition of Ubuntu is all wonky so the device didnt even work to start and secondly because I have no idea about bluetooth protocols and stuff in linux.

To fix the driver/kernel issue I had to use this file ar3011-dkms_1.1ryu2.3_all.deb which you can install with:

sudo dpkg -i ar3011-dkms_1.1ryu2.3_all.deb

The Asrock ion 330 i bought a couple of years back is an excellent quiet home theater PC that I use for playing movies through xbmc and listening to music through Spotify. However, since I have had it I have had to do some ubuntu upgrades and so forth to keep up to date with xbmc, nvidia drivers, new surround sound, new TV and my general geeky need for updating stuff. So this is more a guide for myself so I dont forget the quickest easiest way to get things working for my setup but I hope there is some useful tricks for others that may stumble here.

This is my most recent setup:

OK, so its not strictly a module that I built myself as I used Drupals Features module to build it, but still its my first release to drupal.org and it works very well for importing all associated info from youtube.

Im not usually one to shout praises for software that isnt open source or free but in this case I have to make an exception. After using putty and super putty and some other reincarnations of putty over the last few years I got bored a couple of weeks ago and went on a mission to find a good SSH client for windows that allowed tabbing, private keys, colours, stored sessions and some other stuff that I wanted.

There are several modules already on Drupal that let you import YouTube videos in various ways, but in my experience none of them quite do what I want and have various dependencies that wind me up a bit.

As long as you followed my previous guide on installing Barracuda to the word, then installing Octopus is as easy as it gets.

As per the INSTALL.txt instructions:

Whats BOA?

It’s a bunch of extremely smart scripts written by omega8cc that sets up a high performance server perfect for building drupal sites on and/or setting up your own hosting.

I will start off by saying that I know there is a hell of a lot of different hosting solutions out there but for one reason or another (this comparison being a good start) I had boiled it down to one of these two to start my journey into a bit more serious coding education (thats educating myself of course).