It’s a little late for Easter, but I decided to throw this theme pack together using images from the Gospel Art Book put out by the LDS church. I just used Windows Live Photo Gallery to crop the images to 16:9.

Click here to download

Edit 6/17/2009: I have updated the theme pack; it seems I didn’t crop one of the photos. Please note this is optimized for 16:9 displays (widescreen) and will work great with 16:10.

I love Windows Live Writer. I use it now for all my blog editing. Recently though, after setting up my new SheevaPlug as my server and using lighttpd instead of apache as my webserver I found that I can’t use it. I got the following error trying to add my blog to my new install of WLW:

An error occurred while attempting to connect to your blog:

Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the blog server was invalid:

Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server

You must correct this error before proceeding.

After I got Ubuntu running on my Plug, I started going about turning it into what I originally planned for it; LAMP, UPnP, and Torrent server.

I first found a great resource for playing with the plug: OpenPlug.org. The wiki in particular has some good tips, the first of which I followed below.

Install Root FS on SDHC Card

By default, the SheevaPlug has 512MB of NAND flash memory for storage, and 512MB or RAM. When you boot your plug from NAND it copies the necessary files to a RAM disk (a virtual disk on RAM which disappears when the plug is powered off). If I understand correctly, this will in effect reduce the available RAM since some of it is used by the file system.

It finally arrived! I woke up last week to find that there was a small box waiting for me to open.

It was packaged surprisingly well. I’ve never purchased a dev kit before, but this was packaged better than any retail gadget I’ve purchased. Very impressed.

Installing Ubuntu

I originally wanted to install Gentoo, however I really didn’t want to go through the work of learning how to compile for this device,especially considering Marvel has already included an Ubuntu image already optimized for the device.