Send email with SMTP and Plain Auth via telnet

First connect to the server. It’s usualy on port 25 but this can change from server to server:

telnet server.com 25

Then say hello:

EHLO server.com

Disable power management for TL-WN725N (8188eu driver) in Raspbian

If your wifi connections switches off after being connected for some time sometimes it may be fixed by disabling the power management so it never goes to power saving mode. Create the file…

Larger fonts for XBMC in Raspbian

Edit the file /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Font.xml and add the following code inside the <fonts> block:

<fontset id="Massive" idloc="31393" unicode="true"> 
    <!-- Normal Fonts -->
        <font>
            <name>font10</name>…

Add support for exFAT in Ubuntu 12.04

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:relan/exfat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-exfat

TP-Link TL-WN725N version 2 in Raspbian 2014–01–07-wheezy-raspbian with kernel 3.10.25+

UPDATE: Read this post if you have another version of the kernel and want use a script to compile the driver by…

MTP support for Nexus 4 in Ubuntu 12.04

Add the langdalepl/gvfs-mtp package repository and update:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gvfs libmtp-common

Configure the locale and keyboard layout in Raspbian

I have a keyboard with the spanish layout (with the “ñ” key, etc.) but Raspbian comes by default only with the english locale and keyboard layout. To make my keyboard work correctly I first added the spanish es_ES.UTF-8 locale on the…