Archive for October 7th, 2011

October 7th, 2011

Thinking about Steve Jobs

When I first heard that Steve Jobs was dead, I shrugged and carried on working. I never met him or interacted with him in any way, and he had little impact on my life; it’s sad that he’s dead, in the general way that it’s sad when anyone dies, but I have no context for [...]

Posted by adamw in Mandriva, Personal, Red Hat | 1 Comment »

October 7th, 2011

Regrets

I really, really wish I’d known about the ‘mapchars’ option to mount.cifs before I rsynced my entire music collection to a CIFS share (when I switched from storing it on my HTPC to storing it on a NAS box). Turns out every track with a question mark in its name went missing during that process, [...]

Posted by adamw in Personal, Red Hat, Technical | No Comments »