Monday, September 13, 2004

macosxhints - SMB mount failure workaround

macosxhints - SMB mount failure workaround
What I could do was create a folder in my home directory (let's call it XYZ) and then, in Terminal, use the following:

mount_smbfs -W DOMAIN //USER:PASSWORD@MOUNT/SHARE /Users/YOURUSERNAME/XYZ

Replace the words in CAPS with the appropriate ones for your circumstances. This essentially mounts the share and connects it to the named folder. Which when double-clicked on will browse that share.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Kanguru Slim FC-RW - Flash Card Burner, Portable DVD Player and CD Burner!

Kanguru Slim FC-RW - Flash Card Burner, Portable DVD Player and CD Burner!

A complement to a digital camera when traveling. Fringe benefit is use it to view DVDs in the hotel room. Main benefit though is burning CD without laptop, review pictures on hotel TV.

Filehand: Another fulltext indexing solution, including PDF

Filehand Home Page

Interesing. I love Lookout, but I need something for the rest of my file system. I'll try it next week.

Snippets 1997 - before there were blogs

Snippets Explained (Version 2)

This is one of the oldest and least reconstructed pages on my personal web site. Google found it very quickly. It was first authored in Feb 1997 (my site began @ Jan/Feb 1995, initially at the University of Minnesota).

This site was about creating quick bits of information with a simple ontology to organize their publication. It was to be a cross between the fragment oriented PIMs of the 1980s and early 1990s and the web.

I didn't have the expertise to build the right solutions, and I had other priorities. I forgot about those "snippet" pages. Until I stated messing with del.icio.us. Ontology, fragments, keyworks ... then there are my blogs, esp. Quick Notes ...

Yeah, there's a resemblance.

Tinderbox, though, is closest to the snippets vision (though I don't use it; Quick Notes + Google is good).

Del.icio.us is interesting though. Gotta figure how to work it in to the mix...

del.icio.us/jfaughnan

del.icio.us/jfaughnan

Here is my del.icio.us set of collaborative bookmarks, with appropriate recursion to this Quick Notes Blog. I like the way the tag list is growing. I use jfaughnan and jgfaughnan to tag my work.

See also my next post, on snippets.

del.icio.us - very fashionable - collaborative bookmarks

del.icio.us

Collaborative bookmarks with an emergent ontology. Very fashionable. I signed up of course.

Making dish sponges last longer

Safety Tips for Your Kitchen
When exposed on the highest setting of an 800 watt microwave oven, a dry, cellulose
sponge was disinfected after 30 seconds. A wet sponge was disinfected after 60 seconds.

I can't vouch for disease prevention, but I am positive this makes the sponges last longer. We were going through sponges at a great pace -- due to their tendency to develop an ... errr ... odor (note to our few guests -- we use a dishwasher for your dishes). Zapping the sponge every few days now gives it a reasonable lifespan.