Category Archives: operating systems

Connecting to Samba from Vista RC1

One of the things that is annoying me about Vista is that I can’t connect to my SMB shares on my Mac. When I try to log in, it rejects my password. I looked at /var/log/samba/log.smbd on my Mac, and … Continue reading

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Vista Pre-RC1 on MacBook

There’s been a lot of buzz about the Pre-RC1 build of Vista working with Boot Camp. I decided to give it a try, and it was pretty easy. You’ll want to perform a full backup before you try this!!! First, … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 5 Test 2 on Virtual PC

I tried loading up FC5 test 2 on Virtual PC on my Mac, and the install went well, but the smoke test (rebooting into my new Linux install) failed miserably with some weird errors: bad: scheduling from the idle thread! … Continue reading

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After the Keynotes

After all the news coming out of Macworld and CES, I find I’m thinking less about MacBooks than I am about dual core Intel chips. Over the past few months, my computers have been taking on very specific roles: My … Continue reading

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Actius Repaved

What a weekend. Not only did I relax a lot, and get in a great hike, but I did some repaving. A while back, I wrote about how my Actius would not boot from the CD-ROM drive that it came … Continue reading

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