January 2008 Archives

There isn't a lot of time before this evil, evil signed long value goes negative. It should make a good retirement gift for us; Kind of like the Y2K problem. Of course this issue goes away almost immediately when you start working on LP64 programming environments.
Grumbling about determining a particular time zone's offset from UTC without actually setting the value. There doesn't seem to be much in the lines of determining this without significant programmatic interference.

I am wandering to Cork for the afternoon and some of the evening. It's the standard Warpcon weekend, but I find myself unable to go for all of it. I will be driving down this afternoon and driving back this evening. I think it will keep me sane... I don't think I could deal with my usual level of excess on that weekend.

Back in the land of the perpetual beep again. Forgot to blacklist the pcspkr driver again. It beeps something horribly when ever there's an error condition. I should make someone else suffer from this.

Sometimes when people are using old painful versions of samba you can't use the encrypted passwords to talk to the remote server. You just get a complaint that the password is incorrect all the time, even though you keep typing the damned thing in correctly.
What you need in this case is an nsmb.conf file in ~/Library/Preferences/. It needs to contain a stanza:

[host you care about]
minauth=none

For every host that is not using high-falluting authentication. It would be better to not use a default entry here, as we want to ensure that the default attempt is not to try with unencrypted communications.

Well, I have a dlna server running on my little always-on laptop. Now I just need to get something similar on the worldbook, removing the need to have the laptop always on.

Setting up network-manager (0.6.5-0ubuntu16.7.10.0) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf ...
Auto interfaces found: lo eth1 eth2 ath0 wlan0
iface to disable = eth1
iface to disable = eth2
iface to disable = ath0
iface to disable = wlan0
Disabling interface: eth1 ... done.
Disabling interface: eth2 ... done.
Disabling interface: ath0 ... done.
Disabling interface: wlan0 ... done.
 * Reloading system message bus config...
   ...done.
 * Restarting network connection manager NetworkManager

And that's all it wrote. I do not like NetworkManager - it is a piece of crap

My old hosting provider downgraded me to an older operating system and facility so I've just made the leap to another provider.
I will not be recommending the old hosting provider any more.
hosting has been changed to fix the willing