Mounting SMB Directory

sudo apt-get install smbfs smbclient

sudo smbmount //192.168.1.2/Music /home/dbott/music -o username=dbott,password=mysecretpassword,uid=1000,mask=000

Mounting local HDD

petechua@petechua-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 6.7G 7.4G 48% /
tmpfs 1008M 0 1008M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1008M 264K 1007M 1% /var/run
varlock 1008M 0 1008M 0% /var/lock
udev 1008M 2.9M 1005M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1008M 232K 1007M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1008M 2.0M 1006M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sda3 91G 85G 5.7G 94% /media/Data
/dev/sdc1 73G 65G 8.6G 89% /media/USB_70
/dev/sdd1 699G 695G 4.2G 100% /media/FreeAgent Drive
/dev/sdc2 36G 35G 803M 98% /media/New Volume
/dev/sda2 40G 34G 5.3G 87% /media/OS_Install

petechua@petechua-laptop:~$ more /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=925f8684-37f6-4856-9feb-6d448238a1ab / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=fc25ad13-b03a-419e-a784-28e87a07d742 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=2A84E93B84E909E1 /media/Data ntfs-3g auto,users,rw,relatime 0 0
petechua@petechua-laptop:~$

Notable quotes from Epictetus

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; ca. 55–ca. 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline.

- All external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately.
- Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
- Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
- Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.
- If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone.
- Permit nothing to cleave to you that is not your own; nothing to grow to you that may give you agony when it is torn away.

Wireless on MSI Wind(Ubuntu 8.10)

Luckily, the fix to that problem is pretty easy.

1. As Ubuntu doesn’t have a package of this driver yet, you’re gonna have to fetch it from Debian’s unstable repository. The package is right here, just click any mirror to download.
2. Debian isn’t providing a binary because of the driver’s license, that’s why you got the source code. Install the package by double-clicking on it and then press the install button or whatever you’re supposed to be pressing. Then pop up a terminal and type in sudo aptitude install debhelper module-assistant.
3. Let’s build a binary package of the driver. In the terminal you write sudo m-a a-i rt2860, and module-assistant will do the rest for you.
4. To get online without a reboot, do sudo modprobe rt2860sta next, and you should be able to connect to a network with Network Manager.
5. Let’s make sure the driver module will be loaded again when you’re eventually rebooting, or the next boot after having shut down the netbook. Open your terminal and do sudo gedit /etc/modules, and on the bottom you append a new line with rt2860sta. Then save, and the driver will be forced to load every time during startup.

http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/r/rt2860-source/rt2860-source_1.8.0.0-3_all.deb

Source: http://k.dieplz.net/evolution/2008/11/22/wlan-in-ubuntu-8-10-on-new-msi-wind-u100/

Datsusara (脱サラ)

Found this term. Fits my life description now!

Datsusara (脱サラ) refers to the act of quitting work as a salaryman and finding a new occupation. The term only refers to those who quit their office job to find a more fulfilling line of work, and not those who were forced to search for a new job after being fired, or quit simply out of boredom. Becoming a stay-at-home dad also does not qualify for this category. Examples of this include becoming a SoHo worker, web designer, farmer, fisherman, traditional artisan, writer, restaurant/store owner, franchiser, and many other occupations.

Datsusara is not an easy option for the salaryman. The new job is often a childhood dream or a momentary inspiration of some sort, and takes a huge amount of time and work to come to fruition. The main danger lies in taking up a profession without the proper knowledge and training; a salaryman seeking to become an organic farmer can unwittingly devastate his first crop because all of his knowledge is based on reading and studying rather than actual hands-on training.

Despite the numerous risks involved, the number of salarymen who quit their jobs has been on the rise since the 1990s. Many of these people only became salarymen because they were told to do so by their childhood environment, and quit after becoming discouraged by the nature of their work. Datsusara can also be seen as a rebound against the stress of schoolwork and university entrance exams, or against corporate hierarchy. Another factor is that improvements in living standards have made it so that one does not necessarily need a set income in order to survive.