givens:
server is running samba on linux; users are on windows
problem:
a single or group of files need to be “isolated” from the users, i.e. certain executables, malware, spyware, etc. on the server.
it files cannot be deleted yet because the malware in the users’ computer will jusT recreate them. a remedial solution is to set the file [...]
this has been a long time in coming. finally. i can run photoshop with the help of wine on linux. i would prefer that it run natively — a photoshop version that runs specifically on linux — but adobe so far has been mum about plans to port photoshop to linux.
wine is an open source [...]
january 2008 is ending and i think its been a good month. granted that there has been glitches here and there and i’m late on some of my workload (with good reason) but no one under my care has been hacked and work-related stuff are moving forward although at a slower pace than i [...]
givens:
desktops are running windows with ms office; file server is running samba on linux
problem:
file ownership of a shared file gets messed up once a user opens, edits and saves the shared file.
what happens in the background is when user1 opens, for example, an excel spreadsheet with a file ownership of nobody.research, excel copies the file [...]
i had a visit from a friend of mine who works as a web designer. she was half way through her pint of ice cream when she came in. i was working on a website and she took one look at the page i was working on and she gave me that knowing smile.
“obssessive/compulsive.”
“what?!?”, i [...]
the other day i received an e-mail which looked a lot like spam but it didn’t get filtered. i took a closer look and i found out that the address of the sender was my e-mail address and it was sent to the same. i’m absolutely sure i didn’t send anything with a subject “january [...]
tinymce, the visual editor that came with wordpress 2.3.2 has a little trouble with html tables. i made a couple of tables in my html editor, copy and pasted the code into the wordpress page editor, in code mode of course. when i saved the page only the first row of the tables came out [...]
it started about a couple of months ago. my electricity bill went down by almost a thousand pesos per month. that is pretty big. you can buy lots of stuff with 1k. and the only thing that i did was stop using my desktop computer. seriously.
for the record, my desktop is an [...]
its the first day of work. well, at least for me it feels like it is. e-mail starts pouring in (less the spam), the cell bleeps every now and then informing me of incoming text messages, the cell and landline rings more often and i’m spending more time in front of the computer doing web [...]
