Mount a Windows Drive on Ubuntu Using Samba

Ever wonder how you can mount a Windows share on your Linux box?  Well it’s actually quite simple.  I typically set up a special user for my windows shares, so in this example we’ll use a user with both a name and password of “lan” with a folder called “shared” which has been set up [...]

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Emacs – Disable Splash Screen

For years I’ve been a pico user.  However as time went on I became more and more aware that I was limiting myself as there was much pico could not do.  After much debating on which I should learn, Vi or Emacs, I eventually went with Emacs.  After installing it and starting to use it [...]

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VirtualBox – Increasing Your Screen Resolution

Since I’m currently taking Windows 7 for a test drive I had to set up a copy VirtualBox with Ubuntu 8.10 in order to make use of the terminal (I can’t stand PuTTY or any other Windows alternative).  In the past I had always used VMWare so this was my first venture into the land [...]

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