Stats are nice

Jan 19th, 2006 | Hardware, Linux, Networking, OS, Technology, Windows | 3 Comments

After I have set up a webalizer and checked out the stats I was very impressed. For the past 3 days (the time after downtime) I found a lot of visits and hits. But more interesting was a page with search engine queries references. I found 18 of those. Most of them are regarding 4 issues:

1. Fedora Core 4 installation:

- VNC installation questions. This is described in installation guide with all details and I was covering in my blog the successfull installation over VNC which I personally did.

- Install bootloader bug which caused kernel panic in most of the cases. This can be overcomed with typing some crap in bootloader prompt to force simple error and then giving the correct boot options (or just pressing enter)

2. Integration of Kontact and M$ Exchange + M$ Active Directory. This was covered in my blog to too far ago in all details and there is a bunch of information on the web since this is an old issue and many people did this.

3. Mounting Windows Server 2003 shares in Fedora Core 4. I also discussed this some time ago and pointed out that the main thing to do is to specify cifs as a filesystem type instead of smbfs. Check out man mount and man mount.cifs. This will not work on old distros (such as RedHat 6.2) unless kernel was compiled with cifs support (which is by default not)

4. Sony Ericsson p800/900/910 software. Previously I showed what software I run on my p910 and also pointed on some web-sites where one can find lots of stuff. My favourite is http://p800stuff.com

This seems to be it. I think that I will be covering some issues from the search engine queries referals here so that people can find more information they need ;)

What you do if you don’t want to?

Jan 19th, 2006 | Personal | 3 Comments

It happen to me few times that people whom I helped in the past start calling me after long time passed and asking to do some work for them. They do it the way that I start feeling like I have no choice and that it is a kind of my duty to help them again. On the other hand, there are many reasons why sometimes I do not want to come back to some people and do any kind of job for them.

So the question is what you do in such cases, because if I reject to help, I will feel somehow a bit uncomfortable and by my nature I hate rejecting to help, on the other hand, I am totally not in the mood doing any kind of job with some people even again :(

It’s like to help or not to help :)

P.S.: please do not the case above to be global. It rarely happens that I am not willing to help someone ;-) Otherwise I would just right here something like “Do not even bother to ask me” ;)