Last post I have ranted about apple doing crap, but to be honest, it isn’t really better on windows – it’s just different problems like being unable to execute a binary file from a network drive. As the error message stated ‘Permission denied’, I started with checking the permissions of the network share and files.
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
Windfall
Today I have really started thinking about apple computers again due to the latest incident. This time we’re talking about windows shares in a cooperated network, called smb or samba shares in combination with an active directory. The task itself shouldn’t be that hard as it was just accessing a windows share on a remote server – but […]
Windows and its trash
Windows can be a real dirty system regarding wasted disk space as you might have noticed. A current case showed amazing numbers. The common TEMP-Directories, found at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TEMP and some stuff in the users home directories can hold quite a large number of unneeded files – in our case here it was about 20 GB trash occupying the […]
cmake
I guess I can’t keep my hands off my gentoo box trying to test new things until stuff breaks. This might sound tragic, but if you’d ask me, it’s those things you learn most of as fix the things you have broken while trying to improve your box. It’s those things teaching you the implications of the whole […]
Moving the server machines
Due to the fact that I am moving to the new flat, my servers will be offline for a couple of hours starting tomorrow afternoon (GMT+1). I’ll post here as soon as I know anything new before we’ll go down for hopefully not more than three hours. Update – 2009-04-29: It is not a big surprise for me, […]
My favorite ISP again…
Every now and then it happens to me, that I have to have a look at the computer problems of my relatives, just like the current weekend. Topic of the session: “Internet access”, the classical error report: “nothing works” – roughly translated this could be taken as a “Search for it, I’m too lazy to demonstrate” thing, not […]