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unable to share new HD or Partition

If you have a new HD or a new partition and you are trying to add it as a samba share you might run into some problems. Check your log files if you see an error message like 

 SELinux is preventing smbd (smbd_t) "search" to  (file_t)

.  Just log in as root and do 

#  restorecon -v /mnt/newdrive

the -v option tells it to give a verbose output of whatever its doing. You should be able to access your shares now. This puzzled me for a minute because I could still access other shares on the older partition/drive and even new ones as long as they were on the older drive but any new shares on new drive/partition were inaccessible.

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Wipe your old hard drive

Thinking of giving up your old computer, make sure you clean out the hard drive first and no reformating it is not a secure way of wiping your data. There are some free softwares available for you to use Secure Eraser,Secure Harddisk Eraser, and Eraser. i have received several donations for hd’s, which is why now am able to experiment with adding several features to the site, but of all of them none was cleaned out. I did clean them out all of them before doing anything with them. the point is people need to be more proactive especially in this days of identity theft.

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Just installed fc10

Been running Centos for sometime and I have become used to the sparse updates every now and then. On the fc box the updates are insane now I remember why I choose a distribution with a long life cycle. The newer kernels in fc come in handy though my TV card works. Last time it worked with Linux I had fc5.

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Fedora dvd not booting

I downloaded the ISO image twice, both times were torrent so the sum was checked I still run my own sh1sum to make sure. Burnt it onto 3 dvd’s before i gave up. Burnt it twice in k3b and once in nero. Used the slowest burn speed nothing worked. I even dl’d the live version and was contemplating using that, until I went through the dvd contents. In the Images folder is a file boot.iso just burn this as you would a regular iso image to cd. Boot from it and it will start the boot process just insert the dvd in another drive or when prompted to “I really didn’t wait to be prompted just left it in the other drive” but i guess it should prompt you at one time. This should solve your problem, hope this helps someone out there.

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why I’ll never buy anything apple

I got introduced to open source software a few years back and to me I think it’s the best thing out there.
This week apple got a patent for the touch technology employed on the iphone. This is their way of stiffling further development on devices with such capabality. The touch technology has been around for some time, and it’s not an invention of apple. So what if the person who invented it also patented it all those devices using it wouldn’t be there, or only big companies which can afford licensing fees would be able to use it.
Companies which have devices utilising this feature are getting ready to defend themselves against apple, but for small companies which can’t afford getting into battle with the likes of apple will hold of on innovating in products in this area until the dust settles. In the meantime it’s the consumers who suffer because we are the ones who would have stood to gain from other
entrants in this field, and you keep saying how apple loves you, no just your money.
I bought my wife a shuffle sometime back when they were still selling for $80 a piece “not my choice”, and compared to what was available from it’s competitors at the time for the same amount they put it to shame interms of features available. Even at its current price the competitors offerings leave it way behind interms of value. They are the same ones who said they don’t know how to build a sub 500 machine that ain’t a peice of junk, well psyster came and proved that was a lie.Their $399 machine wasn’t a piece of junk. That’s it for now as the more I write the more pissed of I get and, using more of my time on this topic is a waste of my valuable time. So that you know my choice would be the G1 or or palms devices which run on linux.

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Movie collection Organiser – Griffith

I have been trying out this application and its awesome. Griffith is open source meaning it’s come free of charge. It helps you manage all your movie collection plus movies you have seen but don’t have any physical copies off. So next time you are trying to remember if you have seen a particular title all you have to do is just open it up and see if you have seen it. It even helps you keep track of movies you have rented out, want to see in future and will also retrieve posters and information about your movies online, from a wide selection of sources.
To try it out you can get it here it runs on all major OS’s.

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K3b error: Found invalid entry in the video_ts folder

I was trying to burn a Video DVD in k3b and had the error:

Found invalid entry in the video_ts folder Could not write temporary file

The solution to this was instead of dragging the VIDEO_TS folder into the burning area click the VIDEO_TS folder on the left of project area and drag the individual .vob, .ifo and .bup files to the right and click burn. This is not limited to a particular distribution.