I’ve always had a problem with figuring out permissions in Samba. Today I was looking up some information on it and found this very good description posted on the samba mailing list: “create mask” *removes* permissions. “force create mode” *adds* them. To quote from the man page for smb.conf This parameter [create mask] may be…
My friend Steve has bought a car, trailer/bus, and has gotten a crew together to compete in racing events. The car will be sporting tux the penguin (linux mascot) and other open source “free” software logos. He recently contacted Richard Stallman of FSF fame to request using an FSF logo on the car. Here is…
Well I finally got my Epson Perfection 3170 working in Gentoo Linux with the epkowa drivers version 1.10.0-3. I recieved this scanner for my birthday on March 9, 2004 and am now just getting it working in October 5, 2004! Talk about procrastinating on my part 🙂 It’s not like I didn’t try though. Any…
Have had this up for awhile but figure some people don’t know. I have a howto directory here: http://footon.jheslop.com/howto/. So far I have 2 docs: http://footon.jheslop.com/howto/LVS-HA-win2k-howto.html http://footon.jheslop.com/howto/anti-virus-spam-howto.html They are both under Creative Commons license so use as you will.
GNUWin II is a free compilation CD for windows that is full of open source goodness. I have used it at home to help my wife Carla get used to some linux programs. Once we both can get away from using windows at home I’ll be able to install linux at home and use it…