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How To Clear Orphan Network Drives

Sometime Windows gets confused. After a power outage, switch failure, crazy network card packets, dhcp availability or for no reason at all, you can have network drive letters that conflict with needed drive letters and you can't get rid of these orphans.

In one case after a power issue,  I saw the usual drives from logon scripts get remapped as 'removable drives'. This netbios naming conflict resulted in home drives not mounting and no access for users. Needless to say, they were annoyed.

Three solutions:

Samba Bug After Server Upgrade - Master Browser Conflict on Old IP Address

In the process of upgrading a Samba server, you may find that the old ip address hangs around. It can interfere with the new server getting its role as a domain master browser. You must shut down nmbd and delete wins.dat.

Very annoying... editing wins.dat does not fix.

Here's the log message

 

Sep 18 08:15:27 smbd_open_once_socket: open_socket_in: Address already in use

 

Sep 18 08:15:27 <fileserver> nmbd[1429]:   There is already a domain master browser at IP <old_ip_address> for workgroup <your_workgroup> registered on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.

 

While we're at it, here's how to make a wins.dat entry static:

A typical dynamic entry looks like this:

"NETBIOS_NAME#03" 1155298378 192.168.1.2 66R

To make a NetBIOS name static (permanent), simply set the TTL to 0, like this:

"NETBIOS_NAME#03" 0 192.168.1.2 66R

Adobe Flash Is Bad - Finally Some Sanity - Steve Jobs Thoughts On Flash

Jobs IpadFor many years, Adobe Flash has annoyed me to no end. Yes, I know it's the defacto standard for rich media and casual games, but it runs badly on mobile devices and is a pain in the @ss to get up on some educational Linux distros. It's proprietary... with all the problems inherent trying to mix it with Open Source.

Steve Jobs lays it out clearly as an artifact of the past. With HTML5's Javascript and native h.264 video support, who needs Flash anymore?

Embrace the change, developers, your life will be much nicer without Adobe's agenda to work around. - Kelley Graham April 2010 :)

Read the full article here- http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Apple iPad - Uber Slick + Affordable - The Real Costs

WiFi = $499
WiFi + 3G = $629

32GB Upgrade to enough disc space for a weekend full of movies = $729
3G Unlimited Plan, No Contract

Your're going to love it!, but you're addicted now and in 2 years you'll need version 2, which will be way better. Since you have no wireless contract and iPad v2 will cost the same as v1, why not upgrade?

3G 2 yrs @ $29 month = $696
TOTAL REAL COST NOW = $1429
TOTAL REAL COST IN 2 YEARS = $1429
TOTAL 4 YEAR COSTS = $2850

More good stuff at: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/ipad-will-hurt-your-...

iPad - Addictive

How To Generate Secure and Random Keys

 We use a 16-32 bit alphanumeric/punctuation key value. You can ...

Google Android Nexus One - Disappoints

Here's what you need to know - $530 Unlocked, $180 With T-Mobile.

Only one plan available at signup.

Google didn't learn with their underwhelming G1 launch... business as usual. It was rumored that Google would sell the phone at something close to cost... when will the open source (fairness?) model be fully adopted by a large company.

I'm sick of the mantra of the shamelessly greedy: 'The price is whatever the market will bear'.

Question for Google: Why don't you lead in business practice like you lead in engineering?

See the recommended links below for more.

Clearing Runtime Memory

Anonymous Al asks:

Do you know any PROGRAM to run from a Floppy Drive,CD-ROM
or a Flash USB Drive that permits "TOTAL" control of the
MEMORY ??... (both RAM and VIRTUAL...)and compatible with
NT (2k)systems and XP ??.........
Someone told ME that MICROSOFT has a COMMAND called
"ClearRam"...
... but i would like to use something... more specific.

This because in most Public Internet centers,cybcaffes etc etc... they have the system configured,cyclically,to
get (ROB)your session results,and ,with that,i cant agree...

Technobabble - Thoughts on How Stuff Works

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