About

I’m making the transition from a mostly Windows life to a more UNIX oriented one.

My background was in DOS way back, and for a while ran Slackware Linux.

I’m a hardware nerd, and I like tweaking and optimization.

 
  • jacob: Thanks for a great post. I had one issue with your command: #nice -n 10 portupgrade -aRr. you will get...
  • Pan: Do you have any problem printing from a windows machine? I have an Samsung ML1610 and I can print once from...
  • Scott: One other item. CUPS. To get this working right, I edited /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf , and added the line...
  • Scott: Follow-up item: after disabling nmbd as the Section 6 wiki mentioned, I found that I could no longer access...
  • Scott: Dan, that’s a great point. I experienced exactly what you’re saying today when I realized...