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Apparently CIFS is the new Samba, so to mount your NAS via CIFS instead of Samba, read this, then change the fstab line to:

//<YOUR-NAS-IP>/<NAME-OF-NAS-SHARE> /<WHERE-YOU-WANT-TO-MOUNT-THE-NAS> cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,rw,auto,uid=<YOUR-UID-NUMBER-OR-USER-ACCOUNT-NAME>,gid=<YOUR-GID-NUMBER-OR-GROUP-NAME> 0 0

i.e. For me it’s:

//192.168.1.100/Share /mnt/Share cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,rw,auto,uid=r3dux,gid=r3dux 0 0

You might notice reference to a .credentials file above. You need to create this!!

The format of the credentials file [you can call it anything & place it anywhere - just make sure you point to it in the fstab lines(s)] is:

username=YOUR-NAS-USER-NAME
password=YOUR-NAS-PASWORD

So stick the above two lines in a file, substituting appropriately for the accounts and passwords on your NAS, then sudo chmod 600 it and remount the filesystem with sudo mount -a.

Job’s a good ‘un – comment here if you have any probs and I’ll try and resolve them and/or clarify the post.

Cheers!

Shetboy gets all the achievements that matter to head down under and be my best man! Hurray!!

Can’t wait! =D

Lets say you’ve got a bunch of folders taking up a large swathe of space which you never really use but want to keep, just not taking up stacks of your NAS… How can you easily compress them all up to individual archives of each folder? Dead easy:

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#/bin/bash
for folder in */
do
  7z a -mx9 -mmt "${folder%/}.7z" "$folder"
done

Save that to a file, chmod +x it and run in the location you want to compress the folders. Every folder (and all contents within) will be compressed to its own foldername.7z archive.

With 7z, -mx9 is the flag for maximum compression, and -mmt says to use multiple CPUs to speed up compression, so omit that part if you’re on a single core machine.

r3dux welcomes JuniperLee to the mighty r3dux.org – try not to break it!!

You’re an author now, so you can publicly write anything you choose or desire…

The freedom is yours.

Enjoy! =D

[Title explanation] [AudioBook] [Giant Panda]

…to Andrea Doherty on July 18th, 2009.

And I love her, and the kids, and it’s going to be fantastic =D

Hurray!!

She’s off in Melbourne atm, choosing a wedding dress or five – and everything feels right – but we don’t have a song! Every couple needs a song! I’ve ruled out NWA – Fuck The Police and maybe Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name, but everything else is fair game…

Prolly thinking more BT and Modest Mouse, as those were the bands we met over…

So how about this:

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Mixed with this:

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Or just this:

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Or all of them and more! Who says you have to pick one song? I keep my seashell collection scattered on the beaches of the world, perhaps you’ve seen it? [credit]

Anyways, I’m really excited about the whole thing, because I love her and the kids to bits and I want to stay with them, and if that’s in Australia, Alaska, Albuquerque or Aberystwyth – I’m there.

This is a happy time.

1.) Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game – that now includes you.
2.) Whenever you think about The Game, you have lost The Game.
3.) When you lose The Game, you must announce that you have lost The Game.

A student of mine told me about The Game the other week, and I lost it this morning over nothing! And now you have too!

Double-Drats!

Hearty congrats to the mighty Shetboy for getting this months fastest time on Mirrors Edge Stormdrains One on the 360 at 1 minute and 18.77 seconds.

Yes, not so many people play it anymore, but still – it’s a fine and well earned achievement – I salute you, sir!

I couldn’t let this gauntlet lie, so had a whack for a couple hours myself and managed to shave a few hundredths of a second off the time, so technically I also got a fastest time of the month, but if I did so, I did it by standing on the shoulders of giants!

BTW – Check out one of the worlds fastest times below – that tiiiiiiight! faaaast!!

And just out of curiosity, I looked up the fastest times for the level on each platform:

Hmmm… Can we assume from this data that most PS3 owners are backward hick/retards living in some hillbilly shack somewhere? Why yes, yes we can =P

Looks interesting, and I really don’t want to be a hater, but you’ve got to wonder about some things:

- How fine a degree of control will you have?
- If I’m playing a skateboarding game, can the camera tell if I want the board to do a heelflip, or a heelflip shove-it? Ya know, is it accurate?
- How accurate do -I- have to be?
- How knackering will playing fighting games be on a scale of 1 to fuck-that?
- How’s a FPS gonna work? One hand for gun angle and the other for forward/back/left/right/strafe?
- Who do I sue when I break my neck on the coffee table playing Mirrors Edge 2?

Also, it’s all showing an idealised version of things not real gameplay, as the kids fingers were covering part of the board when he scanned it, yet no fingers in the scanned image. Hmm, I’m coming off as a hater here – and I’m sure lots of cool uses for this will arise, I’m just not sure about how many of them aren’t kinda gimicky…

Also, the voice recognition will be like this – no matter WHAT you ask it to do =P :

Okay, so I’m cynical as all hell AND a playah-hater… Oh, well. I really hope it works out, but I guess the only way to find out will be to wait and see…