I have been trying to figure out how to get all my machines to use the same PATH since it’s getting annoying always forgetting that things aren’t included on my desktop PATH that are on my laptop, and vice versa.
Since GPOs are one of my major weakspots in Windows administration I’ve resolved to try to do things like this via GPO just to learn how to use them better. To get this policy set up I had to decide a few things that would impact how the policy was set up. Continue reading
I recently wrote about compiling Mosh for OI, and ended by saying I couldn’t get it working. Thanks to the help from the list post I mentioned, I got it compiled, and was able to execute the binary. However, it didn’t work. Connecting to it failed always, and the compiled client just out the word “hangup” and then exited.
I gave up at this point, and have since installed a guest Ubuntu VM, and installed Mosh on that, then from that mosh session, SSH’d to the OI box. It’s not pretty, but it works.
A buddy of mine has convinced me of the merits of Mosh, and I want to use it with my OpenIndiana file server. There’s no package for it, so I’ve got to compile from source. This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this, so it’s all a bit daunting. Coming from Ubuntu where installing things are generally never more complicated than ‘apt-get install $package’, having to do things the old fashioned way is a bit more difficult. Continue reading
I wanted to set one of the NICs on my OI box to have a static since it’s got a direct connection to my ESX box, bypassing any switches, and directly linked to a VM on that machine. I routinely transfer large chunks of data (1-20GB files) from that VM to my OI box, so I wanted to completely move that off of my main network. The VM is a Windows box, and I have the NIC set statically to 192.168.20.1/30 and wanted to set the OI box to .2. However, I couldn’t find a simple way to do it with ifconfig, and everything I found suggested disabling the NWAM service and switching to the old way of doing things, which is bad. Apparently. Continue reading
I am as vocal in my opposition to this bill as I can be without grabbing people on the street and yelling at them to pay attention to how obscene it is. I routinely bring it up in conversation, I talk about it routinely on Twitter, I try to make everyone listen to me when I talk about how flawed it is, and often spam anyone that has the slightest inclination to avoid instantly writing me off as a paranoid nerd with information about it. I’ve donated several hundred dollars to OpenMedia.ca to aid them in raising awareness, and written several letters to my MP, to other members of parliament, signed petitions, etc.
I recently received a form letter Vic Toews’ office attempting to dispel misconceptions about the bill. The form letter, is available here, and my response follows. The full text of the bill, which is mostly dense legalese, can be found here in pdf or as a web page here.
I work with a bunch of very green entry level help desk folks, and sometimes they get requests to change permissions on files/folders. This causes lots of problems because they apparently don’t understand NTFS permissions, and subsequently break things by improperly applying Full Control or Deny permissions on objects in a directory tree.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion over when to use Deny permissions in an NTFS ACL, I’m going to try to clarify it once and for all:
I recently had a bunch of problems running ZFS on Ubuntu, and so since that is the FS I’ve decided on using for the foreseeable future, I wanted to move to something FOSS that was actually built to use it. I decided to go with OpenSolaris, and then found that that has been Oracled, and now there is OpenIndiana. There’s a few things that I really like about OI, but a lot of minor gripes.
With Windows, I have no problems accessing any of the SMB shares on my OI file server, with OSX, not so much. OS X’s tendency to disconnect from SMB is pretty well documented, and a topic of popular conversation among people at work, and anyone I know not using a 100% Apple network. Continue reading
None of the data collected is shared with Google or their partners, nor with any other products within Google. I get the info, that’s it.
Obviously the +1 button does not fall into this category. ++ing something clearly sends information to Google and is linked with your account.
