There’s a new version of Visual Studio coming out called Everett – actually very interesting, compared to the current version of VS 7 – they are targeting C++ ISO conformance and hitting 98% or better – “But our favorite benchmark is that we’re compiling the popular Boost, Blitz, and Loki libraries without the need for special workarounds”. Excellent, sounds worth the switch this time.
I have been following Freenet development for years now, and it is still very much a work-in-progress.
I decided to give the latest Windows snapshot of Freenet 0.5rc1, “the first ‘stable’ release in far too long”, a ride around the block.
Well, it takes about one NY minute to realize that the main problem with USING Freenet is actually FINDING STUFF on Freenet. I will need to set up an index of my local node some time, with the perl script from here (and here’s a sample of what it can do), if I get inspired, and can get my head fully behind the concept that (“censorship is evil” && “copyright is bad” && etc. etc.).
And to guarantee this is the final time, I’m cutting and pasting it into the body of this article (hit “Read More” to see it)… (continued…)
First step, set up a linux user and a Windows logon that match.
Viewing Windows shares from linux
Type the following (eventually set it up to run on boot):
mount -t smbfs //sharename/c /mnt/sharename_c -o username=### -orw -ofmask=777 -odmask=777 -ouid=www
(### = your Windows/linux logon name)
Viewing linux partitions from Windows
Set up /etc/samba/smb.cnf as follow
then run [/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart]
workgroup = #### (set to match Windows PC’s)
hosts allow = 192.168.###. (### = your LAN’s range)
[root]
comment = root path
path = /
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = @### (### = your Windows/linux logon name)
create mask = 0755
My original lil’ Linux box, an old Dell P133 (back when I bought PC’s pre-assembled, how boring), wasn’t really up to serving up a full GUI while I was taxing it for all my server needs (proxy, web server, etc.). So I always ran in non-X “init 3” mode. Now that it’s been upped to an AMD K6-2 400MHz (yeah it could be better, but it could be worse), I have Gnome running. I haven’t used it for much yet, but now that I’ve gotten XWin-32 up, I can run all those juicy freshmeat apps under Windows. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to set up. BTW, Putty has been my ssh client of choice, again simple as pie to use.
XWin-32
server machine = thedigitalmachine.com
connection type = rsh
Putty
export DISPLAY=[IP]:0
[any x app] &
