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Fortune cookie?
Follow the Path of Emacs, grasshopper, and you shall go far. Venture not down the false road of ‘vi’ and shun the evil ‘notepad.exe’
Vista Home Premium with Samba 2.8.2
- Click start – Type: regedit – Press enter – In the left, expand these folders: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ – In the left, click on the folder named: Lsa – In the right, double-click “LmCompatibilityLevel” – Type the number 1 and press … Continue reading
Recovery Tools
An excellet collection is Hiren’s Boot CD
After installing Ubuntu 9.04
If you want support for MP3 files, Youtube video, and Java on your webpages, you could hunt down several packages – or just install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package install all the codecs and other files in one step. This also includes … Continue reading
Resolving missing packages on Ubuntu
So I tried to install simutrans on Ubuntu 8.10 and get this error message: ./simutrans/simutrans: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Note the filename I put in bold — apt-get … Continue reading
Upgrading VMware on Centos 5.x
So today when I tried to start my XP machine, I’m greeted with VMware 2 telling me that it has expired. Frustration: Why should I use a program that’s going to decide to quit working for no reason? I’m moving … Continue reading
After installing Ubuntu 8.10
Additional Repositories We are going to add the Ubuntu Partner and Medibuntu repositories which contain a number of apps. From a terminal window, edit /etc/apt/sources.list… sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list … and enable the intrepid partner repository: [...] ## Uncomment the following … Continue reading
Mounting NFS shares from Mac OSX 10.4
If you have an NFS mount called /home on host 192.168.1.100 — first make the directory /mnt and then, as root: mount -o -P 192.168.1.100:/home /mnt
Mounting NFS on OSX
By default, OSX doesn’t use privileged ports for NFS connections; when you try to connect to an NFS share from a Linux server, you’ll get Could not connect to the server because the name or password is incorrect. So try … Continue reading
What’s Up
Up… up is the direction exactly opposite the net gravitational influence at a point in space — relative to the observer.