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Stepping Into Samba

Drew — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:38:07 +0000

A few friends of mine stare at me blankly when I mention Samba and SMB. In fact, sometimes they think it's the same thing, when in fact, it's not. I'll talk about the differences between the two and walk you through setting up Samba networked shares. This will give you a nice introduction to Samba and also Linux, if you are not familiar with that, also. The real question here isn't why SMB, or why Samba for that matter? Well, first off, after I explain to you what SMB is and then Read More »

/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Drew — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:47:45 +0000

While at work, I had a customer ask me how to, one time, delete all the mail in his /home//mail/cur directory. So, first off, I wanted him to just take a look at that directory, get to know it (figuratively speaking). So I had him run the du command on it; wow, you wouldn't imaging how much mail was in there! The actual command I had him run was: BASH cd /home//mail/cur du -h ./ The output was 1.3GB. Yes, that's right, he had 1.3GB of mail files. Some people are unaware Read More »

Changing Vongo’s default directory for storing movies

Drew — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:35:16 +0000

Vongo is Starz' approach to a "movies-on-demand" type of service. I currently use it and I love it. The only thing I think would make it better is, well, the obvious - more movies! Overall, I really like Vongo and I'll tell you why. First off, it allows you to download and watch movies at the same time; this is amazing due to the fact that a 1.3GB movie can take quite awhile to download, even on a high-speed internet connection. Another thing I just love about Vongo is that it is on-demand Read More »

How-To: Password Protect Apache Directories with .htaccess

Drew — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:17:54 +0000

Have you ever wanted to let someone download a file or image from your website, but didn't want to have the whole world know about, such as Google's great search engine spiders? The robot.txt file only goes so far, personally I'd rather password protect my directories if I don't want them crawled. It's a great way to set up realms that only the privileged few know about. I'll walk you through the very simple steps of doing so, and showing you what gets added on the server side. Grab Your Read More »

Database Crisis

Drew — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:42:42 +0000

DeckerD almost died. Read on. This story is about backups. I almost had to put DeckerD to sleep this afternoon. Needless to say, DeckerD is back up and running with much success. So how was it a crisis?? Read on, I say. Data huh? A database is a collection of data that is organized so that its contents can easily be accessed, managed and updated; of those the most common is a relational databaseDefine by Lanyon. The back-end that powers this website (Wordpress), a database is Read More »

Understanding CHMOD and Creating permissions without a calculator

Drew — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:06:41 +0000

CHMOD (chmod) is a UNIX oriented command that means "Changing Mode", that let's you change the mode (hence the name) of the file, or directory(s) depending on how the chmod command is used. When I say "changing mode", I mean giving the file a different permission scheme, respectively read, write, and execute. This command, by the way, is one of the most useful and most used commands in Linux (among many others). UNIX/Linux vs. MS Windows Before getting into syntax and the whys of the Read More »

Human Relations/Proj Mgmt. Recap

Drew — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:14:29 +0000

WOW! What a crazy 6 weeks I had! Three weeks of Human Relations and the other three weeks of Project Management. So, all this means is I know how to deal with you and create a successful project, so what? The main thing is, I really actually learned that everyone is different, and even though you may think you are one of those people that everyone get's along with, think again. The Human Relations Part Human Relations is one of those things where people sit there and decide how to make the Read More »