Archive for the ‘Various’ Category
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Since this happened with filenames with euro sign or accented characters or dollar signs, the solution is to specify the mount options as follows:
smbmount -o iocharset=utf8 //servername/folder /mnt/localmountpoint
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Ever wondered how to connect your linux box via bluetooth, for instance to allow file transfer with your phone? I found some cool and working hints on the Net, reporting here below what worked for me. Connect your USB dongle Install what ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Very cool idea to make Cygwin environment portable!
Link is at http://symbiosoft.net/?q=cygwinportable
The power of Linux in Windows.... available in your USB stick!
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
I just learnt something cool to finetune a WiFi net and before I forget, it's better to take note as usual.
It has to do with channels and frequencies and issue at home was that my WiFi was not performing as I was expecting.
It was configured to run on channel 8, ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
One of the things I like of Linux is that despite I'm working with it since 1994 I never end learning part of it.
Today my need was the following: I dd a 20 Gb backup onto a 40 Gb HDD and it worked smoothly, but problem is that filesystem on ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Surfing the 'Net I found a cool signature to insert in mail, etc. echo niugnePniraoR | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "" } { for (i = NF; i >= 1; i-- ) printf $i }'; echo Do you ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
this is a start!
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