Thoughts of just about anything
Debian
Starting a Virtualbox machine from the command line
Nov 15th
I finally got Virtualbox running on my Debian box but I kept wanting to just start the virtual machine from my Fluxbox menu instead of running the GUI and selecting it from there. More >
Samba creating root-owned files for non-root user on Debian/etch
Sep 30th
I just noticed today that when I connect from my Mac OS X box to my Debian/Etch box via Samba it appears that every time I create a file it gets the owner of root. For example if I log on as jfrias I would expect files to be jfrias:jfrias when I create them but they are created as root:jfrias. More >
Mondo Rescue Live CD
Feb 29th
I love Mondo Rescue and at one point there was a Live CD that would boot your PC and you can then launch it from there. It was great for backing up Windows machines, but I tried searching for it and the Live CD is no where to be found. So I decided to roll my own. More >
Strange Symlink Behavior in Leopard
Nov 11th
I just noticed some strange symlink behavior with my Samba shares on my Debian box. Usually directory symlinks show up as folders on Mac OS X. But today I noticed that they started to show up as file aliases. More >