{"id":456,"date":"2006-12-08T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/08\/real-life-scenario-linux-outsmarts-os-x-in-samba"},"modified":"2006-12-18T23:59:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:59:55","slug":"real-life-scenario-linux-outsmarts-os-x-in-samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/08\/real-life-scenario-linux-outsmarts-os-x-in-samba","title":{"rendered":"Real-life-scenario: Linux outsmarts OS X in Samba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safari repeatedly crashed when it was redirected to Starhub&#8217;s login.now portal (Firefox survived). In fact, OS X didn&#8217;t know how to handle the disconnect from &#8220;SHARE2&#8221; upon wakeup, I just got the spinning beachball of death for about five minutes before deciding to reboot the machine. How dismal.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Linux just disconnected the mounted Samba share and let me continue on with my work. I also got connected to the Starhub portal all thanks to NetworkManager (whose icons are way better than the Internet Connect widget that Apple ships).<\/p>\n<p>All this while awaiting my flight from SIN -&gt; KUL. And kudos to the Singapore Airport, which now seems to have WiFi everywhere not just in their certain powered areas. I did all this while awaiting to board my flight at the boarding gate itself.<\/p>\n<p>Linux: 1, Apple: 0<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/airport\" rel=\"tag\">airport<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/singapore\" rel=\"tag\">singapore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Real-life-scenario%3A%20Linux%20outsmarts%20OS%20X%20in%20Samba&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2006%2F12%2F08%2Freal-life-scenario-linux-outsmarts-os-x-in-samba&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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In fact, OS X didn&#8217;t know how to handle the disconnect from &#8220;SHARE2&#8221; upon wakeup, I just got the spinning beachball of death for about five minutes before deciding to reboot the machine. How dismal. 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Speculation of a new XCode maybe... Otherwise, interesting comments like \"Redmond, start your photocopiers\", or even \"Redmond, we have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":650,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/22\/backup-disks-for-photos","url_meta":{"origin":456,"position":1},"title":"Backup disks for photos","date":"22\/10\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"With disk being as cheap as it currently is, there's no reason to not buy some large disks, and create some redundant backup of images (DVDs are getting stale). 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The Dell can now serve as a full development machine, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":822,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/27\/secure-travelling-with-ipfw-on-os-x","url_meta":{"origin":456,"position":4},"title":"Secure travelling with ipfw on OS X?","date":"27\/5\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear (mac\/bsd) Lazyweb, Any idea how I can do the following, on Mac OS X? iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d my.pop.server \u2014dport 110 -j DNAT \u2014to-destination 127.0.0.1:1235 iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d my.pop.server \u2014dport 110 -j DNAT \u2014to-destination 127.0.0.1:1235 Does ipfw(8) work in OS\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/17\/xcode-from-apple","url_meta":{"origin":456,"position":5},"title":"Xcode from Apple","date":"17\/2\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Was at Equatorial Hotel for a presentation by Apple - Xcode, Interface Builder and some of their other developer tools that come with 10.3 (Panther). Impressive stuff, I'd say - a monkey can build a web browser. 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