Under guest (Linux) identify uid and gid:
guest$ id
uid=500(username) gid=500(groupname) groups=500
then adjust the /etc/fstab file accordingly, in the block added by VMWare software:
old: .host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5 0 0
new: .host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
lastly umount and remount hgfs:
guest$ sudo umount /mnt/hgfs
guest$ sudo mount /mnt/hgfs
Author Archives: netfortius
VMWare Fusion & shared folder with Linux guest
March , 2008 –
securely saving kmail critical info to an USB key
January , 2008 –
This is what I have done on my macosx system for this:
1. created a directory for what I deem to be critical files (emails and configuration) on my system:
~$ md /<path-to-mail-backup-dir>/mail-backup
2. created a script able to update the backup directory, from the major ~/.kde place, tar and encrypt (using openssl and a password file to [...]
kmail, firefox and macosx
January , 2008 –
Need to document how to configure firefox launching from within kmail, as none of the “obvious” (googled) options worked:
X11 –> terminal –> kcontrol –> KDE components –> Component chooser –> Web browser –> enable “in the following browser” and add this line:
open /Applications/Firefox.app
The problem is that the only answer having come up close to the [...]
beyond belief - 2007
January , 2008 –
Recordings from the second edition of this conference - Enlightenment 2.0 - are now available online.
migrating kmail between systems
October , 2007 –
On some systems mail is found under $HOME/.Mail, on some others under $HOME/Mail and - yet on others - I’ve found it even under $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail. Regardless of where the source (to be copied from) directory of email is, the important thing is to have the variable “folders”, from $HOME/.kde/share/config/kmailrc point to the target directory.
The only [...]
Nokia E61 and video creation with MacOSX
May , 2007 –
The [set of] tool[s] needed to produce a properly encoded movie for the Nokia E61 [fantastic!] smartphone is called ffmpegX.
The most successful outcome of movie encoding for this platform (video and audio) I was able to obtain was by using the following configuration:
* Quick preset (pull down list): 3gp (this one doesn’t really matter that [...]
network tools #1
February , 2007 –
Yet another place-holder for (less popular than the likes of Wireshark - no need to repeat those) tools I have found useful in my years of toying with networking and security:
* a set of of tools, all packaged very nicely (merci, Laurent!), working on either Linux, *BSD, MacOSX (have I ever mentioned that this is [...]
google usage … nice
February , 2007 –
Very nice (and useful!) usage of Google search capabilities for real scientific info.
about fitness
January , 2007 –
John Wilkins wrote in his blog:
“Fitness is a property of a competing variant in a population. It means that X, whatever it might be biologically, is increasing in its frequency in a population faster than its competing variants. X can be a gene, or a trait, or even an entire organism’s form and functionality.
What fitness [...]
cryptolinguistics - well said!
January , 2007 –
From Matt Blaze’s blog:
We often say that researchers break poor security systems and that feats of cryptanalysis involve cracking codes. As natural and dramatic as this shorthand may be, it propagates a subtle and insidious fallacy that confuses discovery with causation. Unsound security systems are “broken” from the start, whether we happen to know about [...]
