Phil Hunter

To avoid permission problems when accessing a SAMBA file share from OS X add the following to the [global] section of your samba configuration /etc/samba/smb.conf

unix extensions = no

phil Linux, Mac

I recently needed access to an older version Fedora and discovered that neither updates or the core packages would download and install using YUM.

To fix this (based on Fedora Core 5) I made the following modifications to these files:

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo

[core]
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo

[extras]
enabled=0

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo

[updates]
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/

Now when I execute “yum update” I get the last set of updates to be released for that particular version of Fedora and likewise I can use yum to also install new software packages.

phil Linux

If you are like me and want the ability to return to a previous version of the iPhone OS then you’ll need to start taking back-ups of the downloaded OS images.

When you click to Update your iPhone in iTunes and select Download with the intention to install later, you’ll be able to take a copy of the downloaded file before you install.

Once downloaded, this can be located under your User folder /Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates

phil Mac