When you are on #OSX regularly, CIFS/SMB is not that good option. What you would need to do so is installing afpd and bonjour. Obviously, they won’t name as they are in Apple product. Their package names are netatalk and avahi consecutively. Installation is as easy as one regular apt-get.

Setting up both at the same time, then we would configure later.

# apt-get install netatalk avahi-daemon libnss-mdns

After installation, we need to configure a bit for both service.

afpd — what we are going to do now is to disable legacy Apple File protocol back in pre #OSX time which we don’t need.
# vim /etc/default/netatalk

 # enable new service
CNID_METAD_RUN=yes 
AFPD_RUN=yes 
# disable legacy service 
TIMELORD_RUN=no
A2BOOT_RUN=no
ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no

All you need to do is making sure if these values are assigned correctly. Next, we have to declare sharepoint. You can append to these new settings to the end of this file.
# vim /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default

/your/path VolumeName allow:@groupname options:usedots,upriv

Example:
You can do a share by username.

~/ "$u" allow:myusername options:usedots,upriv

For Time Machine, you can do this; it might be a good idea to limit volume size before Time Machine takes over the whole drive by using volsizelimit:100000 in MB; 100000 = 100GB

/home/username/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" allow:myusername options:usedots volsizelimit:100000

Restart netatalk to see the change
# /etc/init.d/netatalk restart

For more info: http://linux.die.net/man/5/applevolumes.default

Avahi (Bonjour)
Next, we need to do help setting up bonjour or avahi. A setting file is /etc/nsswitch.conf which is belong to mDNS (mDNS comes helping hostname resolution.) we need to enable mdns module by add “mdns” to hosts: line as following:

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 mdns

Last but not least, we customize how any device see afpd. Create a new file named /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service and paste this in.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
 <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
 <service>
 <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
 <port>548</port>
 </service>
 <service>
 <type>_device-info._tcp</type>
 <port>0</port>
 <txt-record>model=MacPro</txt-record>
 </service>
</service-group>

You can change model to something else which change icon you will see on #OSX client side. AppleTV, iMac, MacPro, Xserve, MacBook, MacBookPro, MacBookAir, Macmini, etc.

Restart avahi-daemon to see the change

# /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart

I tried a lot of alternatives: OneNote on VMWare Fusion — Unity view of course, MarsEdit, Omnifocus, Circusponies Notebook, Journler, MacJournal, Springpad (webapp), Catch (webapp.) As a result, MacJournal it was by its simplicity for months. However, lacking of synchronization sucked big time, esp. with all mobile devices. Then there was an underdog option showing up again. Evernote. At least this piece of software was built with cloudsync in mind.

Well, this time, after couple years w/o using EverNote, I could say that it’s been vastly improved. It’s still far from OneNote counterpart, but this is all you can get on OSX. The question left is how to move all data in MacJournal to Evernote?

Like everybody else. I googled for a solution; I found a script which gave me an error, at least for me. Suddenly I thought of why we have to complicate life this much. So I decided to select all my journal entry, drag them all and drop into Evernote!

Boom! it works! way too easy, right? it works beautifully also. Evernote will show up tons of windows when it completely grabs each journal, but you can always wait a bit and close them all at once with cmd+q. After reopening Evernote, you would more than happy.

note: downside — tag doesn’t come along, but there is always a search, right?

At least, this version makes me happy. My SS4200 comes alive w/ port multiplier; it just lives up to its potential.

Kernel log speaks louder than anything.

+pmp0 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 15 lun 0
+pmp0: < Port Multiplier 0325197b 000e > ATA-0 device
+pmp0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, NONE, PIO 8192bytes)
+pmp0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, NONE, PIO 8192bytes)
+pmp0: 15 fan-out ports
+ada1 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 1 lun 0
+ada1: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada1: Command Queueing enabled
+ada1: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
+ada2 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
+ada2: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada2: Command Queueing enabled
+ada2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
+ada3 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 3 lun 0
+ada3: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada3: Command Queueing enabled
+ada3: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
+ada4 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 2 lun 0
+ada4: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
+ada4: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
+ada4: Command Queueing enabled
+ada4: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)

Thanks, FreeBSD guys enabling this feature. Thanks, FreeNAS folks developing nice-and-easy NAS.

Here is fonts you need to replace, Arial & Prelude families. These are sorta main fonts in webOS. Actually you can replace only Prelude for webOS 2.x or older, but likely you need both for webOS 3.

What I have done? You definitely can copy any font w/ Thai character and rename to Prelude for all webOS 2.x or below. restart Luna once. It will work. However, I just like to have Prelude as it was. I only add Thai characters to that font. So as in this Arial.

How can you replace these fonts? there are many possible ways to do so, but I guess you have to have some sort of shell, XTerm preferably, and surely you probably need to have Preware first. Then you should be able to simply copy this font over the original one.

root@Touchpad: /var/home/root# cp /media/internal/newfont/* /usr/share/fonts/

Once you copy these over, restart Luna once. All set =) If you need anything else, just give me a shout in comment =)

ps. well, FYI, I did put Thai character of TH SarabunNew into webOS’s Arial and Thonburi’s into Prelude.

note: due to excessive spamming, I couldn’t approve real people comments in time. I have to delete spams in database instead. If you guys which have a problem are still around, let me know again. Sorry for inconvenience. I think I’ll move to #Disqus avoiding this issue as soon as possible.

First, you have to enable “multiple profiles” flag by go to about:flags, find Multiple Profiles and enable it. Then you have to restart your Chrome once. There you go!

in /etc/vim/vimrc, you will find:-

" syntax

on which mean it’s commented out. What you have to do is uncomment it, save, and try. For ~/.vimrc, you can just touch that file and type syntax on or you can just do:

$ echo 'syntax on' > ~/.vimrc

That should do it.

Here is what I was looking for Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS

What you have to do is pretty simple, enabling named streams on Mac OS X client–yeah my machine! By opening up Terminal and type as following:-

echo "[default]" >>  ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf
echo "streams=yes" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

That is enabling named streams as a default for all smb connection. This makes my day indeed — not worrying if copying works as it should or not.

I won’t go through all detail right away since I still need more time to adjust my routine to suit Mac OSX to get a fair comparison. In short, pros and cons I have found are below.

Pros:

• [software] Apple makes me believe that their trackpad is good; after I have so much love for Thinkpad trackpoint.
• [software] OSX handle multiple monitors well (just 2 monitors so far) [Linux is way way behind Mac OSX/Windows]
• [software] Never in love with multiple workspaces, but Spaces does the job very very well.
• [software] OSX handle most of Google thingys well: iCal, Address Book rocks w/Google account.
• [software] Mail app is way better than Live Mail in Windows.
• [software] Spotlight is as good as Windows Search.
• [software] VMWare Fusion is pretty damn good with a unity feature; it makes you believe that Windows app is native Mac app.
• [software] Gotta love having bash shell as default. To me, it’s better than DOS.
• [hardware] Macbook Pro looks very very nice.
• [hardware] MagSafe should be on every laptops!

Cons:

• [software] OSX just can’t handle copying files [from cifs to another cifs, multiple copy & paste, multiple times of drag & drop, copying files within many many level of folders] It doesn’t matter if it’s Windows’ thing. If OSX supports it, MAKE IT fully compatible. >> here is a fix.
• [software] Emptying trash is a pain in the ass; I don’t know what they do, how secure they are doing, but there is no choice for unsecured and fast one. That’s bad enough. shift+option+cmd+del is good enough to empty everything although it might take few hours.
• [software] iWork is useless to me–I can’t even open MS Word file.
• [software] Microsoft Office for Mac is below par when it comes to compatibility with Windows version–It’s not OS fault, but most people around me use Windows, that makes this a con. I expect much better app-and-OS-independent here.
• [software] Missing OneNote! there is none as good also. VMWare Fusion comes being a hero here.
• [software] no Windows Live Photo replacement–I hate iPhoto which can do only in its own library. Adobe Bridge comes close but it’s not built for viewing tons of photo in many folders at once. Picasa has its own way of keeping all info. I don’t like that. (I stick with spacebar to preview for now.)
• [software] a change of not showing SMB/CIFS mount on desktop in Snow Leopard is very very awkward. In Tiger, if you mount CIFS path, you will get a link on desktop. This can be achieved with ln -s, but why make this more complicated than it used to be? my bad that I couldn’t find this: firing up Sidebar Preference | General Tab | you will see connected servers show on desktop option! checked!
• [hardware] 2 USB for top-of-the-line machine?
• [hardware] Screen isn’t IPS-comparable; this is less than I expected. At least Thinkpad X200 Tablet will come with a better panel.
• [hardware] no PgUp/PgDw and many buttons on Mac keyboard, but I do love having CMD as an extra.

I know that many are applications’ cons, but if I only include what OS can do, not considering 3rd party app too, it would be non real-world experience. Is there anyone still uses computer w/o any 3rd party software nowadays? I’m sure I will have a lot more to add here; wait and see.

For Firefox, it will read userChrome.css for custom UI. It’s located in /home/<user-name>/.mozilla/firefox/<random>.default/chrome/ You can just create one.

/* Menu Bar - Shrink and Fade Text */
#navigator-toolbox .menubar-text {
	font-size: 70% !important;
	color: #999 !important;
	}

/* URL Bar and Search Bar - Shrink and Fade Text*/
#urlbar, #searchbar{
	font-size: 85% !important;
	color: #333 !important;
	}

/* Tabs - Shrink Font and Height*/
.tabbrowser-tabs {
	font-size: 80% !important;
	height: 20px !important;
	}
.tabbrowser-strip {
	height: 22px !important;
	}

/* Bookmarks Toolbar - Shrink Font and Size*/
#PersonalToolbar {
	font-size: 90% !important;
	padding: 0px !important;
	margin: 0px !important;
	max-height: 20px !important;
	}
	/* Seperators - Remove */
	#PersonalToolbar toolbarseparator {
		display: none !important;
		}
	/* Toolbar Buttons - Reduce Margins */
	#PersonalToolbar toolbarbutton {
		margin: 0 -5px 0 -1px !important;
		}
	/* Toolbar Icons - Shrink and Reduce Margins */
	#PersonalToolbar .toolbarbutton-icon {
		max-width: 12px !important;
		max-height: 12px !important;
		margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px !important;
		}

This will reduce button size into what it should be. Surely you can adjust suiting your preference easily with a bit knowledge of CSS.

1. If you used to open browser, type “google.com” then find things from there. You will have to type a bit more than usual. Try “google.com/ncr” This time you will see same old buddy you saw/expected.

NCR – is likely to be an abbreviation of No Country Redirection.

2. If you are using Firefox, you will have to find new search engine. Lucky us, portugesemike did this for us all. You can just use this instead of regular Google one.

3. If you are using Chrome, you have to go through setting a bit as following.

UPDATE 2011/08/10:
Preference –> Manage Search Engines

Add new search engine by using
Search Engine: Google.com
keyword: google.com/
URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

Customize and Control >> Options >> Basic tab >> click at manage in default search section

You have to add *ncr* to keyword, then magic will happen.

Have fun with real Google.com search!