This topic can be found all over the net, I record it only to have a record for myself and anyone else who frequents this blog.
If you are using ssh and scp often you know that it’s frustrating to type your password so frequently. Enter public key encryption. Here is a quick and dirty way to setup you public key distribute it to servers which you login to often.
If you’re anything like me, you use the google search box more than the URL box to navigate the internet. Heck, I even check my spelling of a word with it. Google really is amazing in many ways but if you think of its role on the internet, well its almost God!
Type in some random words and google decides what to show you based on some very complex algorithms. Most of the time it does a pretty good job however as people realize that google 0wnz the internet, they start to design the internet around google.
I recently bought a 750GB hard drive and installed it in my linux box running Fedora Core 5. Since I run my iTunes on my powerbook and have this big hard drive in my server I needed a way to add network access to the disk from OS X. I chose to setup the linux box as a NFS server and then use the built in network connector in Finder to connect to my drive.
How to setup NFS server on Fedora Core 5
With a very standard install of FC5 you should have all the nessesary deamons to run NFS. First you will need to edit the /etc/exports file. I know there is a way to do this with the GUI but a far better way to learn is to do it by hand. Before actually editing the file I’d do a man exports or check it out here as I am only going to include what I did when there are many other features that you may choose to use.
su
vi /etc/exports
add line of the form:
/path/to/shared/dir hostname/ip(options)
so that it looks like:
/mnt/tmp 192.168.0.4(rw,insecure,sync)
I know, I know, they aren’t pointers, they’re object references. Whatever. Bite me.
So I just realized that this site looks like crap with IE because it does not handle CSS properly. I think I’ve fixed the problem but I’d appreciate comments if you have problems. No on second thought, if you have problems with IE or windows, STOP USING THEM.
Get Firefox
