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Fedora 16 and the winner is… Useability
I installed the Fedora 16 beta a few weeks back and was mostly pleasantly suprised at Beta things just worked. I've heard a few neg reviews regarding brain dead install failures namely install failing if you have a separate /var partition. But apart from that. Fedora...
Some notes on using validation in a CakePHP model.
Warning: Take all this with a grain of salt. Musing only here. PHP Nested Arrays - Scratch Scratch A potentially confusing thing, and the power in CakePHP is the frequent use of nested arrays. Because IANAP (I am not a programmer) it's taken some time to begin to...
Writing a custom RDP file from a Kix logon script
I attempted use the standard kix script writeLine() function to append data to a Windows .RDP file and got garbage I wanted to add a custom "username:s:DOMAINNAME\username" line to the end of the RDP File. Work-a-round Use VBScript embedded in the kix script to append...
Try them all then remove them… Not so easy
Playing with desktop environments and then you want to remove them # narrow down the group list to the ones you are interested in yum grouplist | grep -Ei '(xfce|kde)' # then get the packages you need to remove yum group info Xfce # then try and get a list of the...
Symantec Backup Exec VMDK Corrupt
See if you can follow my train of thought here: I'm trying to use Backup Exec to copy a vmdk file to tape. The VMDK file was copied off an ESXI server to a Linux Server running Samba. I used ftpput from ESXI to get it to the Linux Box and then a Samba share on the...
Username DOMAIN\username is invalid on this system
Kept getting prompted for a username and password when trying to connect to a samba share despite the permissions being correct. And got this error message in the samba logs: [2011/10/31 13:54:16.781238, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:454(reply_spnego_kerberos) Username...