ksymeon

One of my biggest projects to date is live and I'm starting to get back on my feet. I should start updating my website a bit. First things first, I have to do a mail server migration this weekend. :-[

Was just looking for a quick way of formatting an external hard drive to use with my PS3. PS3 recognises only FAT32 drives, but if you are using Windows XP and try to format a drive larger than 32GB in FAT32 you will find it almost impossible. The only options you get are "NTFS"and that's about it. There is however an alternative formatter (C source code available) that can be found here . Works a treat! Just open a command-shell and type: fat32format <drive letter>: ... and you are done!

I've been waiting for this little one for weeks now. Ebuyer got it in stock on Thursday and I was quick to order one and pay an extra £10 for a Saturday delivery :-) It arrived this morning and it's happily sitting on my desk at the moment. I've got the Xandros (Debian based) Linux edition that comes with 20GB of SSD and a gig of RAM. First impressions are OUTSTANDING! This is the Eee PC as it was supposed to be. A couple of words on its features: Screen: fantastic, 1024x600 is all you need for a little web browser. Keyboard: awkward, I managed to type 2s instead of 1s all the time. I'll get used to it. In any case this is not a machine to write your thesis on... USB: plugged in my Logitech mouse, Western Digital 320Gb passport, Lexar USB stick no problem. 3 ports in total should are enough for most of us. MMC/SD: inserted my 4Gb Sandisk Extreme III card, no problem. WiFi: connected nicely to my Netgear router. After restarting though I had to re-enable the WiFi connec...

Install Samba: apt-get install samba Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and change: workgroup = your windows workgroup name netbios name = xxx Add shares: [_downloads_user] path=/home/user/_downloads browsable=yes writeable=yes valid users = user admin users = user Restart Samba: /etc/init.d/samba restart

I'm getting tired setting up my linux prompts every time I need to setup a new Linux machine (more on this later), so here's my cheat-sheet of linux settings for your .bashrc or .profile: Production machine (red theme): export PS1="\n\[\033[1;31m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;31m\]\h\n\[\033[0m\][\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]] " QA machine (purple theme): export PS1="\n\[\033[1;35m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;35m\]\h\n\[\033[0m\][\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]] " Test machine (yellow theme): export PS1="\n\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;33m\]\h\n\[\033[0m\][\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]] " Test machine (cyan theme): export PS1="\n\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;36m\]\h\n\[\033[0m\][\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]] " Integration machine (blue theme): export PS1="\n\[\033[1;34m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;34m\]\h\n\[\033[0m\][\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]] " Personal/Local Account  (green theme): export PS1="\n\[\...

I need to sit down and think about this, because for years after I got into computers a megabyte was something massive. And now, I've got almost 3 Terabytes hooked onto my computer: Total: 2,970,532,491,264 bytes I never thought I will have that much storage space. I can't even imagine how much storage we will be needing in another 25 years time.

I got an email the other day from a guy who told me that they couldn't find my Greek Conversions (GCNV) program on cylog.org . I replied that I basically moved my servers and I haven't finished the migration yet but then I decided to add it to the "archive" section as I always planned to do. Little I knew, that Greek Conversions is apparently featured in WikiPedia on an entry about greeklish ! Oh, yes! Of all the software that i've written, this awful little utility from 1995 is the one that's linked from WikiPedia :-) Nice :-)