Archive for the ‘Debian’ Category

Adding notes to Revelation

Revelation is a nice little python application that manages your passwords. I thought it would be a good application to use as most password managers are either too heavy or very ugly looking.
The only problem is that the official version of Revelation does not support notes for the password entries. So I decided to create [...]

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Starting a Virtualbox machine from the command line

I finally got Virtualbox running on my Debian box but I kept wanting to just start the virtual machine from my Fluxbox menu instead of running the GUI and selecting it from there.

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Samba creating root-owned files for non-root user on Debian/etch

I just noticed today that when I connect from my Mac OS X box to my Debian/Etch box via Samba it appears that every time I create a file it gets the owner of root. For example if I log on as jfrias I would expect files to be jfrias:jfrias when I create them but [...]

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Mondo Rescue Live CD

I love Mondo Rescue and at one point there was a Live CD that would boot your PC and you can then launch it from there. It was great for backing up Windows machines, but I tried searching for it and the Live CD is no where to be found. So I decided to roll [...]

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Strange Symlink Behavior in Leopard

I just noticed some strange symlink behavior with my Samba shares on my Debian box. Usually directory symlinks show up as folders on Mac OS X. But today I noticed that they started to show up as file aliases.

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