When you configure a SAMBA server on Linux and you want to mount the resource from a Mac, remember to set the security mode to “user“, otherwise you can receive messages like this:
The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “SHARENAME” can’t be found
From the smb.conf:
# Security mode. [...]
I’m a huge fan of XBMC and I’m using it on my media-center. Usually I install on the hard drive the XBMC Live CD, a minimal Ubuntu based setup, with XBMC on top. Sometimes, I don’t have figured out why, the shutdown command is not working.
I have faced the problem on many installations (mostly [...]
The problem: your favorite internet connection has one or more NAT between you and your server, so your SSH connection freeze after some idle time…
For developer needs, i usually have the latest web-browser installed on my system. I’m also using Chromium (the open-source version of Google Chrome) and some times ago I have found a little application called ChromiumUpdater, useful to keep Chromium updated. The application stopped working because the download path of the last [...]
Some day ago I found this interesting link about web privacy. The initiative is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and uses an interesting technique for tracking the web users…
Playing with Address Book on Mac and the syncing feature, I have found a bug/memory leak into the AddressBookSync process.
I’m using Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and after some sync with my phone/OSX/etc, I have found my Mac completely unusable, with the CPU and RAM saturated by the AddressBookSync process.
I’m using XBMC Media Center (which was formerly named Xbox Media Center) from a while on my home entertainment setup and I’m enjoying so much the really cool web interface. With this feature you can control your media center from your laptop/phone/whatever.
I’m using the livecd downloaded from the XBMC Media Center homepage (based on [...]
IETester is a free Web Browser (it’s alpha software, anyway it’s working, so why not use it???) that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
I’m [...]
Well, I have just made a little discovery: under recent distros (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10) the cron stuff is changed.
If you label your script with a name containing a dot, the cron job is not executed. (!!!)
Until now, I used to label my scripts like script.sh but now this is evil
If you want some custom made ringtones, chose your MP3, convert to M4A, rename the file to M4R then drag it in iTunes and sync. That’s it.
Under linux I’m using for the conversion stuff soundKonverter, but you can choose your preferred software…
