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Samba 4.1.14 upgrade problem
I just decided (in my infinite wisdom) to perform an upgrade of my samba-4.0.3 installation up to samba-4.1.14. Reading through some online documentation on the http://www.samba.org/ site. Starting with the installation guide: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html and moving onto the Compiling Samba (as that’s what I was doing): http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/compiling.html.
It all looked really straight forward. And it...
Estonia - A "Start-Up" Country
After gaining independence from Russia in 1991, Estonia set about creating a technologically adept country the envy of the world
What they have built is seriously interesting stuff and sounds very much like it’s done “right”.
Automating
If it wasn’t so true, it’d be completely hilarious.
/go away, or I’ll replace you with a very small script
A computer the size of an SD card
Now this has the potential to be the start of something truly incredible. Imagine being able to incorporate a Pentium-class computer in almost anything. Intel has created a computer so small it can be incorporated into almost anything. The Quark. They were able to link it with a Mimo onesie and display your baby’s vitals (temperature,...
Finally a workable solution to encrypt and secure Dropbox contents
Finally a workable solution to encrypt and secure Dropbox contents
EncFS…a userspace filesystem encryption system that has clients available on Windows and your favourite Linux.
EncFS encrypts encrypts each file separately unlike TrueCrypt which uses an encrypted filesystem. This means that DropBox will sync each file as it is operated on unlike containers which will only...
How to make money from streaming "music"
One enterprising computer security professional has made a reasonable amount of money in royalties from several online streaming services; like Spotify, Pandora, etc.
He simply created his own personal version of “songs” that contained garbage. Certainly not listenable to by anyone with a modicum of sobriety. He then had these uploaded to the music streaming services. Next, he crafted several...
Google Hangouts update
Google is updating their Hangouts messaging app to include (among other things) SMS integration. This is both great and scary. Fingers crossed everything will work nicely and still be secure.
Other updates include:
Location sharing Animated gifs in your messages Automatic video contract and brightness changes HD video calls And a bunch of other smaller changes The update...