found this info from: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382

get the uuid from:
diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name

sudo vim /etc/fstab

enter

UUID=123-456-789 none ntfs rw

replace the uuid with the one from the diskutil

this will work with bootcamp’s partition only if you did not use win7’s installer to repartition the drive.

also when removing the windows bootcamp. you need to use the win7 installer disk and remove the windows partition as well as possibly the bootup system partition. mac’s bootcamp assistant will not be able to remove the windows system partition for one reason or another. this would result in having to reformat the mac to rectify the issue.

Vancouver get’s it’s 5th HD channel now. it shows up as 10.1 and according to Wikipedia, it went online earlier this month. I don’t watch this channel much but it’s still nice to finally see another channel go live. I am still waiting for NBC/FOX Vancouver affiliate stations to go online. Time to rescan your ATSC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citytv

been beating around this problem until I finally found a solution on the net that worked.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/09/27/143831.aspx

near the bottom there’s reference to setting the default provider and using the tag in the providers. that seemed to get things going for me. I am not sure why I had to depend on finding solutions on the internet for something conceivably should be offered out of the box…

hostname resolution doesn’t get offered out of the box. you’ll need to apt-get install winbind and update /etc/nsswitch.conf to include “wins” in the “hosts” declaration.

hosts: files dns wins

after that you’re good to go. ping and use windows computernames freely and scoff at any linux users who insist running netbios/wins/lmhosts is a dead way of communicating between computers. I will happily function effectively within companies that still use it.

I needed to kill something running in ubuntu. saw many processes. the key programs used is ps, grep, and kill.

kill -9 `ps -ef|grep -v "grep"|grep "somesearchstring"|awk ' { print $2 } '`


Working on a new USB device. basically instead of a usb memory card reader/writer, it’s a usb RAM reader/writer. Why on earth would you want this? Well, basically for performance through  expanding your system’s available memory either by virtual memory or Vista/Windows7’s readyboost.

This is specifically marketed towards VMWare users who require ALOT of ram. Rather than incurring high disk IO in the guest operating system, some random writes can be offset to RAM thus resulting in a faster responding Virtual Machine while minimizing disk I/O.

Exchange Server is one such example. There’s a great amount of disk I/O and on top of that, Exchange is a notorious memory hog.

Alternatively, one may use existing usb flash drives. however the lifespan on writes on flash ram is alot shorter forcing one to replace flash sticks as often as one would replace a flashlight battery.

If this interests you. I am taking orders now. Please contact me directly.

Alot of buzz around iPad before and after it’s launch. Most of what I expected was there. Some missing features left me wondering why I would bother getting this.

Some of the expected features (I thought) would have been:

Webcam (if not 2 for potential 3D)
Why no webcam? I was even expecting 2. Wouldn’t it be great if this thing could be used for augmented reality?

Cellular voice phone capabililities
When paired with a bluetooth headset, you essentially have yourself a phone. I doubt that will make for a useful phone.. but at least it’s an option.

USB port
noticable lack of peripheral support unless it was an apple product. They clamped down on software and hardware. Worth noting though, with an adapter, you get usb port to use a webcam, however I don’t believe you get to plug ANY usb devices. This is basically an iphone OS after all.

Full Webbrowser
like the iphone, the browser in this is nice and slick to scroll around. However flash is absent, and DHTML and Javascript support isn’t complete. It’s enough to view most websites, but leaves me wanting a desktop OS with a browser of my choosing with all the bells and whistles.

Not a Tablet
No pen input. Therefore no handwriting. Buttons and inputting will be somewhat large similar to existing iphone UI.

So who is it for?
Really it’s just made for the print media businesses. They wanted a device that they can sell subscriptions of their content without direct competition from websites. Certainly with the crippled browsing capabilities and locked down approach to apps and subscription approach to content in itunes clearly works to limit the consumer of choice. The demoed subscription content looks virtually identical to a typical website one would see from the mobile safari if flash and video capabilities were available. Should this device captivate a large enough audience. We should see alot more iphone/ipad friendly websites.

A posting at wired got me worried. We’re starting to see alot of cheap 3D tricks to catch in on the rush. These half hearted attempts at giving 3D could undermine the entire effort in making 3D video a mainstream delivery.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/01/star-wars-3d-retrofit/

I saw superman in 3D which was a lame attempt at doing this very thing. having only parts of the movie in 3D. And what’s worst is that the 3D effect was basically 2D live action animated objects superimposed onto each other. In effect, you get what you see from Paper Mario. or something similar to a 3D birthday popup card. Lame indeed. To the movie execs, please do not encourage this. Star Wars in true 3D would be great. But I would wait another 10 years if they would perfect it.

In an effort to get RemoteApp behaviour on my Mac OSX and Viliv S5 I looked into SeamlessRDP. After spending countless hours trying various configurations I’ve come to a conclusion. It works! but only with WinXP sp2 (sp3 unconfirmed). Vista and Win7 do not work. Server 2003 and Server 2008 of course will work provided you have the TS license. The source of the problem seems to be that the RDP host is ignoring the application execution request unless it was “server 2003 or above” or WinXP. Vista and Win7 appears to be hard coded to ignore regardless of my attempts to change the behaviour through group policies.

Looks like google wants to know what website you’re using. If you feel it’s not an invasion on your privacy, you can set your DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Be warned, google would now know what websites you look at and more.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html