Comments for Ryan Rampersad http://blog.ryanrampersad.com Thoughts, opinions, ideas and now links Fri, 10 May 2013 12:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on → PS4 Won’t Leak Like A Sieve by the Andrew Bailey http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/05/ps4-wont-leak-like-a-sieve/#comment-88514 the Andrew Bailey Fri, 10 May 2013 12:36:04 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6493#comment-88514 Consoles shouldn’t leak!

]]> Comment on → YouTube’s paid channels by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/05/youtubes-paid-channels/#comment-88485 Andrew Tue, 07 May 2013 14:29:51 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6486#comment-88485 I’m right there with you. I believe I have made my sentiments clear on the matter.

EVERY NIGHT, WE WATCH YOUTUBE IN HELL!

]]> Comment on Setup samba folder shares by the Andrew Bailey http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/05/setup-samba-folder-shares/#comment-88404 the Andrew Bailey Wed, 01 May 2013 17:00:35 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6476#comment-88404 I finally remember to set the passwords after installing samba one too many times and being frustrated as to why its not working. As for making shares, I edit my /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and look up the docs (like at https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html ). Mine is something liek:

[global]
#workgroup = MSHOME # if needed for compatibility
netbios name = servers_name
server string = servers_name, alpha's server
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
max open files = 65535
max protocol = SMB2

hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/16 # local + lan addresses
hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0

# auth
security = user # solves UAC issues
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
map to guest = bad user
guest account = nobody

# tuning, ymmv
max xmit = 65535   
read size = 65536
load printers = no 

# misc
deadtime = 100 
usershare allow guests = yes

# shares...
[alpha] # private share for user 'alpha'
path = /share/alpha
writable = yes
valid users = alpha
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[pub] # public share
path = /share/pub
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[rho] # public read only share
path = /share/rho
writable = no
guest ok = yes
directory mask = 0777

]]> Comment on → Linux Kernel 3.9 by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/linux-kernel/#comment-88383 Ryan Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:30:58 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6460#comment-88383 My grandmother used some Ubuntu (could be 9.04 or 10.04, no one knows now) until she bought her own Windows 7 based laptop. My mom finds it acceptable too, as long as videos can play through Amazon occasionally.

I still think the biggest problem for Ubuntu, and Linux as a whole, is the UI. The kernel doesn’t really fix that problem, and without fixing it, it’s not going to be the year of Linux.

]]> Comment on → Linux Kernel 3.9 by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/linux-kernel/#comment-88370 Andrew Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:26:23 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6460#comment-88370 Let’s see:

2006 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2007 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2009 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2010 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2011 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2012 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! nope.

2013 might be the year of Linux on the desktop, but I’m not counting on it, even though my mom has been using Linux for a few years.

]]> Comment on One Thousand Posts by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/one-thousand-posts/#comment-88229 Ryan Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:08:54 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6417#comment-88229 I could delete two spam comments from three years ago, but that would be a lot of work.

]]> Comment on One Thousand Posts by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/one-thousand-posts/#comment-88228 Ryan Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:08:11 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6417#comment-88228 I wasn’t always a link blogger, but it definitely inflated these numbers faster.

]]> Comment on One Thousand Posts by Ian Buck http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/one-thousand-posts/#comment-88225 Ian Buck Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:22:10 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6417#comment-88225 And the number of approved comments happens to be my favorite number.
Of course I’m changing that by commenting, but what can you do?

]]> Comment on One Thousand Posts by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/one-thousand-posts/#comment-88224 Andrew Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:04:38 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6417#comment-88224 Wow. I’m closing in on 100 posts, and I started nearly two years ago. You are such a link blogger!

]]> Comment on → Imagine Xbox Live offline in the future by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/xbox-offline-future/#comment-88198 Ryan Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:54:05 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6404#comment-88198 At least on a PS3, you wouldn’t need an Xbox Live account and subscription to use Netflix.

]]> Comment on → Imagine Xbox Live offline in the future by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/04/xbox-offline-future/#comment-88187 Andrew Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:19:33 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6404#comment-88187 Well thank goodness that I have a PS3. This would NEVER happen with a PS3.

Wait…

]]> Comment on → Meet Market Saturation by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/meet-market-saturation/#comment-88087 Andrew Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:06:44 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6343#comment-88087 So. Many. Hipsters. Looks like California.

]]> Comment on → AT&T’s Truth by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/atts-truth/#comment-88058 Andrew Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:18:30 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6302#comment-88058 This cold war just got hot.

http://www.tmonews.com/2013/03/t-mobile-responding-to-atts-newspaper-ad-with-their-own-creative-responses/

]]> Comment on → We Can’t Pay You, Though by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/we-cant-pay-you-though/#comment-88046 Andrew Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:59:39 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6317#comment-88046 Go to ClientsFromHell.net and start reading. And despair.

]]> Comment on Single Line Comment Regular Expression by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/single-line-comment-regular-expression/#comment-88043 Ryan Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:42:51 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6309#comment-88043 You might be right. I was working with the regex tools in C++, and in the methods we were given, I don’t think $ functioned the same way it works elsewhere.

]]> Comment on Single Line Comment Regular Expression by Jon_For http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/single-line-comment-regular-expression/#comment-88042 Jon_For Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:40:34 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6309#comment-88042 Curious… May be showing ignorance here, but why can’t you just use something as trivial as
^//.*$
if all you’re trying to do is match single line comments?

]]> Comment on → On Dates by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/on-dates/#comment-88039 Ryan Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:12:32 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6304#comment-88039 I agree, dates are great. They’re absolutely required for content and context. But they don’t need to be on the frontpage of a blog. It’s safe to assume that the frontpage is new. And when that assumption is wrong on particular blog, you’ll be burned.

The year of the post is probably the most crucial element to include, since most functionality and changes happen in yearly time spans.

]]> Comment on → On Dates by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/on-dates/#comment-88038 Andrew Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:42:53 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6304#comment-88038 Other people built their own blog (which they use sparingly) and display dates in small(er) text at the bottom of each post. :P It makes the date get out of they way, but they are still there if you look for them. Dates are great, IMO. Also, like WPBeginner suggested, tags.

But what really annoys me is when a blog displays the month and day without the year. Was it June 5 last year? or 2008? It’s impossible to tell (unless the post has comments and they have dates); might have well as been 1996, because it doesn’t specify.

Wait, I think I might have said something about this on my podcast.

]]> Comment on → AT&T’s Truth by Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/atts-truth/#comment-88037 Ryan Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:33 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6302#comment-88037 Yeah, I am on T-Mobile now. I was writing how AT&T is reportedly a horrible company, and how they were buying their “horrible” competitor.

]]> Comment on → AT&T’s Truth by Andrew http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2013/03/atts-truth/#comment-88035 Andrew Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:06:37 +0000 http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=6302#comment-88035 Wait, aren’t/weren’t you on TMobile?

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