Technical Babble on

Make an old Mac OS X install DVD from macOS Catalina

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:35:51 +0000

This brief post is just my notes specifically on how to make a Mac OSX Lion install DVD from within macOS Catalina. This isn’t really meant to help anyone other than my future self. But I hope it helps the odd other person too.

Step 0. Optionally order a copy from Apple, do a search online and you can find Lion and Snow Leopard disks still available for order directly from Apple, as of late 2019.

Death by PEBKAC evaded by amazing ZFS snapshot CTRL+Zery

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:23:27 +0000

Tonight I was doing a little development work towards a telemetry system I’m building for a thing. Along the way I managed (like a 10/10 n00b) to delete a bunch of vital configs on my reverse proxy server that handles all my traffic. Thanks to the amazing ZFS snapshot function made easily available by FreeNAS, I was able to recover from this otherwise devastating fckup, super fast and without service disruption.

Using pfsense to sign private wildcard SSL certificates

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:17:57 +0000

pfsense is a wonderful router appliance BSD distro that I’ve enjoyed for some years now.

I use the pfsense certificate manager to issue certs for my VPN client devices. For my Internet-facing life, I have legit SSL certs for everything, I’ve a neurosis about it. But it’s bothered me that for my LAN servers, I’ve continued to use Self-Signed certs for interfaces. Today I fix that.

Here are my notes on how to create and sign a wild-card SSL cert using pfsense for internal use. Note that this approach means you will make your own certificate authority which then must have its root cert installed on any machine you want to use your own certs.

VMware ESXi 6.5 - Replacing the default SSL/TLS certificates

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:43:47 +0000

One of my weird hobbies is installing legitimate SSL certificates EVERYWHERE. Here’s steps for replacing the default self-signed garbage SSL certificates you get out of the box with VMware ESXi:

Steps Get your SSL cert, obviously. You’ll need a .key file and a .crt. (If you need help at this stage, take a look at my SSL cert management scripts on github.) Enable SSH access to your ESXi box. Login as root over ssh. (If you don’t know about this, perhaps this whole process is not for you at this time) From your root ssh session to your ESXi box, follow these steps:

LVM Recovery Bedtime Story: The tale of the journey home for some long lost bytes

Fri, 11 Aug 2017 23:11:58 +0000

Above: To the right is my hovel at the cottage I setup during my holiday-time-well-spent playing with ddrescue

I had an awesome LVM for nearly 15 years. It saw me through high school, 8 years of post-secondary nerding and then some years after. The drives involved came and went, as I perpetually upgraded it. I loved it dearly. At its peak, it was comprised of 7 drives. Inevitably, the Seagate-reaper came to visit and the LVM was no more. It might have persisted, but I was younger and crazier and I took the striped path to ruin.

VMware ESXi 6.5 Hypervisor on Dell 690

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:12:19 +0000

I picked up a Dell 690 from an e-recycler for $11. I picked it out knowing that I can kit-it-out with 64GB of slow DDR2 FBDIMM RAM for about $80 and I can replace the CPUs to get to 8 threads for another $30ish. I somewhat foolishly assumed VMware ESXi 6.5 would just run on this rig. I was wrong, kind of.

Annoyingly, this motherboard seems fully electrically compatible with CPUs that are both dirt-cheap and supported by ESXi, however after a fair search of the internet, I found that the bios does not support such CPUs. The most conclusive findings I encountered were these.

Dear Diary: Samsung ML-1610 on macOS 10.12 Sierra

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:25:20 +0000

New Version

A newer version is here. I now call this ml1610-blaster.

I have a trusty Samsung ML-1610 printer that I think I bought for like $90 back around 2003. It’s been an outstanding little cheapie that so far has seen me through two undergrad programs and is now seeing my wife through her third such program. Overall, it’s unremarkable, but I like it enough to keep it going.

Dear Diary: GoDaddy Error Code 6007

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 09:36:01 +0000

I’ve been working out a tolerable dynamic DNS solution for myself lately. After much effort, I’ve settled on running my own bind server (I last did this like 12 years ago, hah). I’ve written simple scripts that handle it for me and they work fine. However, I found for many of my domains hosted by GoDaddy, I couldn’t get it to use my new nameservers. Godaddy would let me switch my nameservers, but then they’d revert to their previous settings and I’d get an email containing the helpful message:

MacPro3,1 gains a GeForce GT 720

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:33:47 +0000

It was time to upgrade my secondary video card on my trusty MacPro3,1. I first goofed considerably with a Radeon 5250. I even went so far as to bust out my old firmware editing tools to change the vendor id in a feeble attempt to get OS X to use it without needing to modify kexts. Then I heard that more recent nvidia cards are supported by NVIDIA’s “web” OS X drivers. I swapped the 5250 (with its firmware restored) for a GeForce GT 720.

Dear Diary: Running Trac and upgrading to Ubuntu Server 14.04

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:17:20 +0000

I’m a fairly heavy user of trac. I’ve got various software projects I organize using trac. I decided to upgrade one of my Ubuntu 12.04 servers to Ubuntu 14.04 and of course ran in to the typical apache2 headaches that are born out of this particular transition.

After remembering to rename my virtual host files with .conf extensions (I find that change annoying as hell on its own), I kept running aground with an Internal Server Error message to which I couldn’t even find a hint in my logs, even after cranking up the verbosity.

Dear Diary: Installing OSX 10.9 on Late 2007 MacBook

Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:26:52 +0000

Here’s my notes on how I approached installing�OSX 10.9 on my Late 2007 MacBook (MacBook3,1).

Note I did most of this on a current Mac running 10.9.

Also, this kind of worked. I got the install to run but it wouldn’t boot after install. I’m probably quite close to it working. I’ll update this post with notes if I work on this further.

Steps

\t- Create USB Flash OSX 10.9 installer

My Diary: Upgrading Alfresco Installations

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:12:05 +0000

Here’s my diary from the “epic” experience of simply trying to upgrade Alfresco installations from 4.2.c to 4.2.f. I found the community documentation to be dated and had minimal confidence in its current validity. Still, it helped. These are my final notes on the process and in actuality there were a lot of wrong turns I made along the way before landing with the below. I spent like 5 hours working this out. Crazy.

Wordpress content-only custom templates (with plugin javascript (etc) still being loaded)

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:39:39 +0000

Today I spent a fair while on a quest to display only page content on a Wordpress site of mine. The situation is that I’m trying to make a very easily updated marketing website for an online-learning project of mine. I like using a proprietary page slider for Wordpress (and other platforms, excluding my Moodle e-learning platform). So, hacky as it is, I opted to spin up a dedicated Wordpress site that’d just host the sliders in content-only custom theme template files. Of course, this mandated rolling up the sleeves.

All Hail Tony, The Digital Warlock

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:09:07 +0000

This is the tale of a man who was faced with colossal data loss. As his family photos seem to fade in to the ether and with nothing to lose, he drew a line in the digital sand. He gained a persona that day, he was no longer just “Tony: Loving husband and father”. No no, that fateful day this man also became The Digital Warlock.

Notes on creating a i7 based Hackintosh

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:13:45 +0000

Recently I decided to try shuffling around my hardware and try a hackintosh setup on my recently acquired i7 box. I last dabbled in this stuff many years back with a P4 box. Suffice to say, my beloved 2008 era Mac Pro is starting to show some age and while I could upgrade it, Apple’s dragged ass in updating the Mac Pro line. So, here are my notes.

Read on to see what steps should work for you, should you use similar hardware.

Apt cache cheatsheet

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:29:44 +0000

I’ve been setting up a number of apt-cacher instances on different networks I run Ubuntu boxes on. This is a well documented process. I’m posting the key steps if only for my own reference later.

apt-get install apt-cacher
Edit /etc/default/apt-cacher add AUTOSTART=1.
Edit /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and make sure the allowed_hosts line is explicitly as intended.
Open client (and local server’s) /etc/apt/sources.list and str repl %s/http:\/\//http:\/\/SERVERHOSTNAME:3142\/apt-cacher\//g

Default port is 3142

Good detailed resources:

Thank you Steve

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:08:12 +0000

Thanks for all your profound, inspiring and helpful inventions Steve. You’ve made an admirable mark on the world.

Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:40:36 +0000

I went to a Protospace talk recently where I listened to a wonderful 4 hour talk about Thorium based reactors. Suffice to say it was time wonderfully well spent. I’m so energized and psyched. I’ve really liked Nuclear power in the past, but that’s given way to this even better alternative. Seems a great deal safer and just all round “better” in every dimension.

Here’s an early video from the talk. A buddy is working on a refined version combining multiple angles (some of which I filmed).

The Air is on fire! Shaw Gigabit Fibre Internet FTW!

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:09:54 +0000

Exhibit A:

Exhibit 2: Damn, seriously.

Shaw Gigabit Fibre Internet doesn’t bother Transmitting Data, it TELEPORTS it!

Here I sit in my bed @ my parent’s place on Christmas Eve. I decided to test out their new internet connection & router by enjoying another kind of “Eve”, Eve Online.

The Air is on fire, but in the good way

About the same time as this new internet service was hooked up I randomly decided to upgrade my parents to use Wireless N (with a repeater rig, a la Airport Extreme & Airport Express).

AirPlay Through pfsense Bridge

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:27:48 +0000

Howdy all, geek-mode enabled.

So I’ve been fighting somewhat to get my AirPlay enabled device (Apple TV) to function perfectly. I use pfsense to run my router and in so doing I’ve got a Wireless and Wired network that are bridged together. I found with the AppleTV that only devices on the same physical media could stream to it, though all devices could “see” it.

After submitting a feature request to Apple over this, I decided I wanted it solved for me anyway and I felt close to the solution. Since I had no logs to go by, I decided to bust out Wireshark to sniff all the involved network traffic. Suffice to say, I was rather entertained to find that when using AirPlay the payloads are flying around in IPv6, not IPv4. Just look at the caption in this post. All those teal packets is iTunes streaming audio to my AppleTV via AirPlay. It’s UDP over IPv6. Neato.

Getting Synergy (or whatever) to run automatically in Snow Leopard

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:26:06 +0000

Here you see the

If you’re geeky like me, then you may be a lover of Synergy..

Well, many of us have long since used some of the old funky tricks for getting Synergy to start up automatically (like the ol LoginWindow trick). But that seems to not be so helpful (for me anyway), as of upgrading to Apple’s Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.5).

Pretty Cycling Images and URLs

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:37:40 +0000

I recently tossed up my little cycling badge of things I like (to the left) and in the process I had to do some CSS/jQuery “research”.

I found THIS really helpful guide that nicely explained everything, but it wasn’t precisely what I wanted. I found that in using the code as given there, all the images would grossly load in a stack and images of different sizes would remain visible in the stack as they cycled. I also didn’t really like the idea of the fading animations being tied to the IMG tag, I wanted to use a more generic DIV container instead, after all I like writing code I can easily re-use later.

Kobo - Unboxed & Linux Friendly

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:41:46 +0000

I’ve recently acquired myself a Kobo eReader. Read on to learn of my initial experiences, thoughts and reactions..

For those who remain unaware of what an ereader is…

They are little device designed to replace physical books. The key to success of the major ereaders (of which the ipad is NOT included) is the use of a completely distinct display technology called E-Ink. The important detail about that is that things displayed on E-Ink look just as though they were printed on paper. Compare this to viewing a typical LCD screen (like that of your phone) in the bright sun. The LCD has to overcome the ambient light, which is really tough in the day. The sharp contrast in brightness is similarly tiring for eyes in good lighting. E-Ink is free of that burden.

Ubuntu 9.10 remote mounts via sshfs

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:30:34 +0000

Hey just a fast post here.. I’ve been using sshfs on Ubuntu (meh, linux in general) for awhile as a means of securely remotely accessing my files. I’ve taken some steps to add a line to my /etc/fstab file to make this run smoothly…

Though today I ran in to a really weird situation. I found that despite having a uid=xxxx line, the appropriate user wasn’t getting ownership of the mount. In fact, when that user would look at the permissions for the mount, it returned something like “d???? ? ? ?”. Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

iPad FTW?

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:10:27 +0000

iPad Promo Images

Yesterday Apple introduced their massively anticipated iPad tablet device. For those who haven’t yet heard about it, it’s basically a hudge iPhone (that doesn’t make phone calls). The iPad is meant to unlock a “new” market segment for small computing devices that is somehow not already met by the iPhone and netbooks.

What does it do, anything new?

The iPad doesn’t bring new functionality to the computing world, but it does consolidate and simplify use particularly of eBooks. There have long since been many very cool eBook readers out there built around providing simple means for people to read electronic books.

Dawning.ca Spruced Up

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:12:36 +0000

Previous Dawning.ca Layout

I’ve just spent a few hours re-designing the layout of Dawning.ca. The old one served me very well and I really liked it. I had heavily modified the previous theme to work for me and work it did. I may tap it some time in the future as a backup… As you can see to the right, the new style is fairly different compared to the image. Although I kept the workflow as I think it was already pretty good.

YouTube Grabber App

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:06:27 +0000

I’ve whipped up this little YouTube video grabber for myself and I’ve opened it up for the moment. If I see it getting spammed or abused in some way, I’ll probably password protect it, nevertheless, you can check it out here.

What it does

This little app takes a YouTube video link and then adds the reference in a database. A seperate script then polls that database and looks for new URLs. It then uses another script (that I did not write), called yt-download, to fetch each video and dump it to my fileserver.

Snow Leopard Upgrade on a Triple Booting Macbook

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:41:13 +0000

Howdy World, so last friday was release day for Snow Leopard, woot! I went out and grabbed a copy and rushed home to upgrade my macbook… Here’s the tale of a bit of resistance I met and how I resolved it.

Yellow Triangle of Rejection

So the problem I quickly encountered was that my “Macintosh HD” partition had an ugly little yellow symbol over it rejecting me from updating my OS X install. I forget (unfortunately), the particular error message. Nevertheless the short version was that regardless of how I launched the installer or a number of other things I tried, it wouldn’t let me run the upgrade.

PCB Etching Progress

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:43:15 +0000

HappyThawts

Transferred Toner

Well, a few of us Protospacers met up and worked out some more home-made cheap Printed Circuit Board progress.. Vast thanks to the help of my esteemed friend HappyThawts, we finally got out a board of usable quality! Woot! We used a single sided Arduino pattern I found (saved me some seri

ous time). And followed a fairly well documented process involving use of Ferric Chloride, Acetone, Clothing Irons, Cheap Magazine Paper, Water and patience.

Firefox 3.5 is out, now go get it!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:11:10 +0000

Howdy all, if you some how haven’t heard yet, Firefox 3.5 is out. It boasts a pile of cool new features and performance improvements over previous versions. Now, go get it!

The Anti-Epic Tale of Making IIS Play Nice with Apache

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:04:56 +0000

The Mission

To run an Apache server (on Windows) on the same machine that was already hosting IIS.

The Strategy

The plan was to alter each virtual host defined in IIS to not bind to the typical HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 & 443), but instead have it use arbitrary ports (was to be 8080 & 4433). With that in place, I could then run Apache normally. In order to get traffic to hit the right sites as hosted by IIS, the apache server would have it’s own virtual host definitions for each IIS site. In those definitions, there would be a Reverse Proxy config to get Apache to pass the traffic internally over to the arbitrary ports.

iPhone Endowed Life Begins

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:12:39 +0000

I’ve finally pitched my brilliantly ancient Blackberry (deserves an award for surviving this long). I decided the only way for me to go was to get an iPhone. It’s now been nearly a week and I must say this platform is a must have for any computery geeky types out there. It makes me antiquated Pocket PC cower in submissive fear and continues to impress and delight me a every turn.

Upgrade Experience with Ubuntu 9.04

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:24:25 +0000

Ubuntu Logo

Hello World!

While, yesterday was Ubuntu 9.04 day! With the latest official release of Ubuntu Linux, I decided to put one foot in the water and give upgrading my mac pro from 8.10 a whirl. The process went fairly perfectly with one major flaw. Upon rebooting my upgraded system, my video driver for xorg was no longer functioning properly. The solution was to remotely login through ssh, download & install the latest driver (from here) and then reboot again. After that I was greeted with the beautiful new Ubuntu 9.04 login screen and the upgrade was nearly..

Synergy Breeze

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:01:20 +0000

Here’s a little video I whipped up on account that some people STILL haven’t heard of Synergy.. Check this video out if you too are a bit unclear about what the dealio with Synergy is.

Arduino/Freeduino Play

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:24:18 +0000

Here’s a video I decided to toss up on YouTube just showing some of the results of some of the goofing around I’ve been doing with my Arduino board (it’s actually a Freeduino).

I had a lot of trouble getting the board to work at first, but once I ran it through an ultrasonic cleaner it seemed to smooth out a lot. Though, some times it still has a hard time programming, in which case I can just apply pressure to the FTDI chip and then it’ll program. I’ve tried re-soldering the pins on the FTDI, but that didn’t entirely resolve the issue enough. Not to worry though, it consistently works perfectly enough for me.

HackADay WebServer Project

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:44:25 +0000

So I found this article on HackADay.com that discusses how to build a small computer on a PCB about the size of a business card. So I went ahead and managed to order a PCB for it and all the parts.

It took me awhile to scrounge the stuff together, but eventually it all arrived. Then I spent a very careful 10 hours soldering on all the tiny little surface mount components. I must admit, this was a great introduction to that world. Anyway, here’s a YouTube video I made just showing this thing hooked up to some power. At this point, I don’t have a programmer, so I can’t actually program the board to do anything other than look like a work of art.

Ubuntu Samba Apache Active Directory Authentication

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:16:25 +0000

So I’ve spent some time for something at work figuring out how to get an Ubuntu server to authenticate users with a Windows 2003 Server Active Directory. Using the process I’ve found by combining various sources, my instructions show how to get a machine setup such that users logging in to the shell, accessing a samba share and checking out a website (or sub-directory of one) can all be authenticated using credentials centrally stored in a separate Active Directory server.

Using a Clone PC Video card in a Mac Pro

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:47:06 +0000

Howdy World, I seek your input. I want to run a clone PC video card in my 2008 Mac Pro machine. In particular, I was thinking I’d get something as close to the $280.00 Apple provided NVIDIA 8800 GT card as possible. My current first choice is the $180 eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT.

I expect the potential major problem to be that a clone video card may be unaware of the boot process of a mac machine. I’m speaking with particular respect to EFI. That said, I’m also aware that clone PCs are intended to be able to use EFI instead of BIOS - so I’d expect decent newer video cards to support this.

Cross Over vs. Switched Network performance

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:30:59 +0000

Howdy, so I just changed my setup from having a single ethernet cable running from my mac pro to my file server (using a Netgear gigabit NIC - GA311NAR) to connecting over a DLink Gigabit switch (DGS-1005D).

I have had the understanding that network transfer rates through switching fabric will constrain the transfer rates (I would have thought by means of bandwidth or propagation time) and perhaps they do, but in short my little change over here has shown me that the difference is relatively irrelevant.

Best Case Scenario VNC

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:37:30 +0000

Here’s a little video I did up of what’s got to be as good as it’s gonna get over VNC. The Video speaks for itself. Have fun.

Refurbished Mac Pro First Boot

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:09:48 +0000

Here’s a little video I did of the “first” boot of the Refurbished Mac Pro I picked up.

Highly exciting (sort of) Nerd Project

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:12:53 +0000

This is something I’m working on for school.. Pretty gruesome project, though at times it’s fun..

OSX Automator Tutorial

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:36:42 +0000

I’m just learning about Apple’s little scripting-for-nonprogrammers generally referred to as Automator. Below is a youtube video I’ve found that seems like a good basic illustration.

ASUS EEE Tweaked out & for sale

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:17:59 +0000

Check it out on E-Bay if you’re interested: Click here

Ubuntu 7.10 on EEE PC

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:06:45 +0000

Here’s a little video I did of Ubuntu 7.10 booting on my EEE PC.

Electronic Notetaking for School and Life

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:48:41 +0000

As I prepare for yet another semester of school, I’ve decided it’s time I finally find a method to electronically record my notes. At this point I’m putting a call out there for some help / suggestions on what would do the trick.

As a student there are a few main requirements I have for this project:

Cost ($500 would be ideal - $1K is getting out of control)
Functionality (must be able to draw notes in to it at a relatively high speed and resolution)
Reliability
Portability

As it stands there’s one device that meets 3 of these requirements really well, as far as I can tell. That would be the iRex iLiad (see image below).

GPT & MBR - A sweet combo

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:19:24 +0000

So for those of you proud Intel Mac owners that have faced the same multi-OS configuration challenges I have.. Here’s a thought on something I tried today at work.

The problem was I had a single hard drive that I wanted to have 4 partitions on. The schema was as follows:

 Partition
Purpose
1
Mac OS - Tiger
2
Mac OS - Leopard
3
Mac OS - Auxillary
4
Fat32 or NTFS

And so as you may well know, EFI will have it’s own partition at the start of the drive.

Jabber Service is open

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:54:33 +0000

So long as no one abuses it, I’m opening up my Jabber server for the community at large to use. To use the Web-based client, just click here. (It’s a little slow to load, be patient)

Once you’ve registered yourself as a user, you can go ahead and use my MSN transport as well. Through the MSN Transport, you can log in to MSN from my Jabber Server. If I have to explain why this is cool, you probably won’t really make good use of it.

Firefox on the iPhone?

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:31 +0000

Okay so a few days ago Apple said that they’ll allow third party development for the iPhone (cheers).. However given that any third party apps have to exist as a web application I’m wondering how I’m going to run Firefox on my iPhone!? Now, I’m curious about this whole new attempt to make Safari 3 rule the universe, but frankly, I can’t see how they can defeat Firefox with it’s awesome plugin architecture and highly active open community. Though I do welcome the attempt to make something even better. Anyway, so I’m thinking that what we need is someone to make a web UI for Firefox so I can run it in Safari. How awesome (sarcastic) would that be!? A browser within a browser. Wicked.

Shrinking an LVM

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:11:42 +0000

Okay, so I’m posting how to reduce the size of a LVM non-destructively. I’ve searched a fair bit for an simple guide on doing this and I eventually found some stuff that made me kind of stumble on the solution. I hope this brief guide helps someone save some real time.

I had an lvm spanning 7 partitions and decided I wanted to reduce it’s size. In short, the key is understanding the functional quirks of pvmove.

Massive Photo Management!

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:58:57 +0000

Check out this amazing video of how thousands upon thousands of photos can be manipulated in a very fluid & intuitive way!

PVR-150 for Linux Video Capture

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:08:38 +0000

So I picked up a PVR-150 for video capture. Of course this is the classic problem of capturing video from a RCA/VHS source. I’ve got two other video capture cards (ATI TV-Wonder PCI and ASUS TV-7135LP). So far, it looks like the input from the PVR-150 is vastly superior to the others. That said, it’s also proven to be vastly more challenging to get input from.

At this point, I’ve managed to get input to mplayer in linux working correctly. Mplayer has an interface intended for use with cards such as the PVR-150. However, I haven’t had much success with that interface yet.

7.04!!!!

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:46:49 +0000

Ubuntu Linux 7.04 has JUST been released! This Linux distribution has been uniting the penguins and is totally rocking the linux desktop world and I’m starting to see some massive progress on the server side too. Seriously, if you ever thought of trying out linux in the past but haven’t, this is the the time to give it a go! Go download it from here or go to the main Ubuntu site and get a torrent or a mirror or whatever! Have fun! :)

Damned Samba

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:55:35 +0000

Well, my progress has been stopped in its tracks for the evening. I can’t seem to get my server to let me write files to it in the manner that I prefer. After many hours of checking and rechecking, I’ve made no progress. Bothers me that I’ve setup a ton of these before and never had this problem.

But perhaps it’s best I stop anyway as I have an exam I really need to be focused on studying for.