Mini trick: Don't show printers in samba shares

Posted by coldtobi | 19 May, 2009, 22:24

To help Windows understanding, that your local samba server does not support a printer, add to your smb.conf in the [global] section

    disable spoolss = yes
 

Reload samba, add it will vanish ;-)

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Nominations for Community Open Source Awards are open!

Posted by coldtobi | 17 May, 2009, 09:27

I  think "NAVIT" is a break-through project that should be nominated for the award:

So I did for:

  1. NavIt for Best Project
  2. NavIt for Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything

If you share this opinion, please feel free to click that button!

 

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WebSpace

Posted by coldtobi | 9 May, 2009, 19:31
When you are looking for a new home for your (new) website project, you usually have to stress search engines a lot. But then, with the results, the quest really starts: There are tons of offers for hosting on the net, and even if you can narrow down the list, there are some more things you should consider while choosing your candidates.
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A Recent Eclipse On Debian

Posted by coldtobi | 9 May, 2009, 13:58

Eclipse is WAY outdated on debian. Even the unstable release ships a basically unmodified version since 3 years.

So today I decided to remove the ancient version -- which did not start anyway -- and try the new nice release from eclipse.org:

And, hey... It works like a charm. The only downside is, that it will run in a local directory in your home directory. But that could be fixed my installing in /opt and including it into the default path.

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