Category Archives: technical

Noteworthy technical issues that were encountered and resolved.

Enabling NTFS write in OSX

Posted on July 1, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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City TV in HD (aka CKVU-HD)

Posted on March 29, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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Sharepoint/WSS3 with Active Directories

Posted on March 5, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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working with Windows networks from Ubuntu

Posted on March 5, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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Killing multiple processes through word matching

Posted on February 26, 2010 by rhuie

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 } ‘`

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USB RAM Adapter

Posted on February 5, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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Apple iPad. Who is it for?

Posted on January 29, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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Cheap 3D effects are not the way to go.

Posted on January 12, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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Free RemoteApp like service through SeamlessRDP

Posted on January 11, 2010 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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Public DNS servers provided by Google

Posted on December 3, 2009 by rhuie

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 … Continue reading →

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