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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software : "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

How do I reset the ReadyNAS to factory default? Resetting the ReadyNAS back to factory default will wipe out all configuration and data. Please understand this before continuing. If you choose to continue, here are the steps: Power down the ReadyNAS. Locate the reset pinhole. ReadyNAS 600/X6: the pinhole is on the back in the lower left corner. ReadyNAS 1000S/1100: the pinhole is in the front. ReadyNAS NV/NV+/Duo: the pinhole is next to the USB port in the back. Get a straightened paper clip and depress the hidden switch in the pinhole while the power is off, and then power on the ReadyNAS, keeping the switch depressed for about 30 secs. You will see the drive LEDs in the front blink once at about 5 secs and again at about 30 secs. Release the switch at the 2nd blink. There will be a 10-minute window where you can use RAIDar to change the RAID mode and/or select the snapshot reserved space. RAIDar will prompt with "Click Setup". If you do not click Setup, the install...

VMware KB: Installing VMware Update Manager 4.1 fails with the error: Error 25085 : "Installing VMware Update Manager 4.1 fails with the error: Error 25085 - Sent using Google Toolbar"

Chapter 38. The Samba Checklist : "Chapter 38. The Samba Checklist - Sent using Google Toolbar"

Ubuntu Bloke: HOWTO: SAMBA + LDAP on 10.04 Lucid : "- Sent using Google Toolbar" Looks like the blog this was on is no longer available so I'm putting the contents here. Wow, it has taken me weeks to get this to the point that it seems to be working. The official documentation is horribly broken, but I have finally got what i think is a working solution. I will probably need to tweak this guide as time goes on (see the end of the post for revision history) PLATFORM: * Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid) PREREQUISITES: * A standard vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 server install. * An NFS server exporting the users home directorys Network overview; * domain name: tuxnetworks.com * ldap -server 10.1.1.5 Install The Packages We want to install the OpenLDAP server daemon slapd and ldap -utils, a package containing LDAP management utilities. While we are at it we will also install samba related packages: sudo apt-get install slapd ldap -utils samba samba -doc libpam-smbpass smbclien...