Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Sun have a awesome demo video on their website of Jonathan Swartz showing their Project Looking Glass technology running, and wow does it look smart – like Mac OS X on steriods!
As far as I have read, the 3D desktop technology runs on J2SE 5.0 with the Java3D and Imaging APIs – the website says its only been tested on Linux so far, so I wonder if it runs on Windows? The developers release is available for download, so I might give it a try.
Samba allows Windows machines to access shared areas of a Linux filesystem.
These notes are for configuration on a RedHat 9.0 linux installation and assume that the SMB services are already installed.
The two SMB daemons are /usr/sbin/smbd and /usr/sbin/nmbd. These are started from init.d.
Check if the smb service is already setup to run automatically from init.d with:
chkconfig --list
Look for SMB in this list for the level that you intend it to run at (eg 3= multiuser text mode)
If it is not in the list, add it with:
chkconfig --add smb
Configure the service to start with:
chkconfig smb on
To startup the services now (only have to do this once), use:
./etc/init.d/smb start
Configuration is via the /etc/smb.conf file. Here is a sample basic config:
<code> [global] ; Uncomment this if you want a guest account ; guest account = nobody log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m lock directory = /var/lock/samba share modes = yes encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes </code>
Test the config using:
testparm – this validates that the file is correct.
Ensure ports 137, 138 and 139 are open on the Linux server. On my RedHat machine I config the firewall using Lokkit. Run this and to the list of open ports.
Further References:
Intel has scrapped plans to release a 4GHz Pentium CPU by the end of this year, and is instead going to increase performance through increasing cache sizes and data access speeds instead.
Does this signal the true end of the MHz speed wars?
AOL, the owners of Netscape since 1999, are rumored to be working on a new release of the Netscape browser. An annoucement of the strategy is expected in December/January. This is an unusual move because AOL have not leveraged the Netscape brand for a long time, and have recently favored Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the default browser with their AOL portal internet access.
The Netscape browser was created 10 years ago today!