HOWTO: Mount Windows Share in Linux
11 Nov 2011 6:56am GMT Install samba and smbfs Make folder /mnt/share Make file /etc/cifspw and fill it with username= and password= $ sudo chmod 600 /etc/cifspw Edit /etc/fstab: //ip/share /mnt/share cifs exec,credentials=/etc/cifspw 0 0 $ sudo mount -a
HOWTO: Restore GRUB after installing windows
10 May 2011 7:14pm GMT Yesterday my notebook (which came with Windows 7) simply went to a boot loop unless I change to OS to Linux o_O. Since reinstalling Windows 7 messes the whole MBR, a GRUB restore is required to get the multiboot back to work. These are the steps to get it working again: Boot with a LiveCD and in places, click the original grub partition get it mounted. Open the terminal. Verify if it's the right partition $ mount | tail -1. Something like /dev/sda5 on...
HOWTO: Remove a parsers from ctags
31 Mar 2011 9:20pm GMT Sometimes it's useful to remove a language parser from the ctags binary. Specially if you are extending it via ctags.conf file. You will need to remove the language bindings at parsers.h (one line here) and source.mak (two lines here), then just recompile the code to get the parsers away.
HOWTO: Recover IUSR and IWAN
25 Mar 2011 3:53pm GMT Today I faced a very interesting problem: How to set back a site, in Windows 2003, to anonymous access once its password has been accidentally changed in the Directory Security? Besides the very intriguing fact of "How could someone do that?!", it's equally fascinating that just clicking "Enable anonymous access" and leaving the password field empty won't bring your site back. Neither using "guest" nor "anonymous". What's going on here is that some Windows account passwords are set...
Installing gedit with autocomplete 0.11.0 in windows 7
1 Feb 2011 1:12am GMT Many developers that use the GNOME desktop environment already know how powerful, yet lightweight, it's official text editor gedit is. Unlike Windows notepad, GNOME gedit comes with a lot of little customizable options and a very flexible plugins system which really makes the programmers day by day a lot better. But what most of the users don't know is that both Mac and Windows can run gedit using the packages made by it's own core developers. This means that no matter what OS you are running,...