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Not sure how to resolve this

• On Linux I have a mounted folder (sshfs src tgt). SVN has lots of trouble with this and I found that using a rename workaround resolves this issue.

sshfs -o workaround=rename 192.168.3.10:/var/dev_linux /home/buildmaster/dev/

• Still I’m unable to run make install from these folders. Running as the local user I don’t have write permissions to /usr/local/lib. Running as root (sudo) I don’t have to the files on the mounted folder…

Finally managed to resolve some nagging issues:

.Net application wont run from my network mapped drive Z:\ - The problem has to do with the location not being trusted. I found a post here that explains how to use CasPol.exe in order to define the network drive as a trusted location.

The next issue was to find CasPol.exe. I’m using .Net version 3.5, which is an extension to Version 2.0. Thus CasPol.exe is located in the version 2.0 directory.

The command line I used is as follows:

caspol -q -machine -addgroup 1 -url file://z:/* FullTrust -name "Z Drive"

It’s been at least 12 months since I stopped using WEP on my home network and switched to WPA. I knew for a while that WEP was hackable, but I had no idea how easy it was using aircrack.

A while ago I changed KNetworkManager on my laptop from automatic to manual configuration. Don’t ask why. Since then I’ve been having trouble connecting to my network when running Linux. Windows worked flawlessly. Occasionally I’d even have to leech a neighbors network (please accept my apologies) just to read some email.

Today I decided to tackle this by going back to “Automatic” configuration and letting KNetworkManager handle the rest. After all, the Ubuntu pages do specifically say that KNetworkManager can handle WPA automatically (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WPAHowTo). Apparently going back to the auto-pilot is not so simple. After trying every menu item and searching every dialog I finally went to Google to find this post: How to switch back to automatic mode?

Turns out that you can’t. Even removing the app and reinstalling doesn’t help. There are some workarounds provided and one of them even worked. Nevertheless, I don’t understand how such a feature could be missing!?

Last week I started learning Python. After playing around with Perl, and PHP I must say that I really like Python.

I have decided to rewrite my backup scripts that use Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services using Python. The previous version was written as a BASH script, with PHP scripts to handle S3 traffic, and Java apps to handle the EC2 instances — As you can imagine, it was a mess.

In Python I’m using the boto library to interface with the Amazon services. For compression I’m using 7z and to do the actual file transfer I’m using rsync.

Stay tuned for more details next post.

Dan