Because I had hangs on Ubuntu with smbfs mounted drivers (the new 1.5TB WorldBook and my USB2 drive from the laptop) I Googled around for some solutions. One thing that I noticed is that most newer forum posts tell you to mount the drives as type “cifs” instead of “smbfs”. Most of the time I […]
Archive for February, 2008
Linux (my Ubuntu) seems to have some problems with SMBFS filesystems. I have the USB2-drive of my laptop mounted in a similar fashion as the WD-MyBook, and that has some hangs occassionally too. So I don’t suspect the MyBook (for now).
Other than that, the MyBook isn’t superfast. It’s only connected at 100Mbit now (it has […]
I bought a Western Digital MyBook WorldEdition II, the 1.5TByte one. Pictures are on my desktop disks, on DVD’s, on the server. I have a lot of audio files I play during the day on the external disk of my laptop. So it was time for something more centralized, since the gf also like to […]
Wednesday I turned 40. Yep, the big four-oh. It is said that life starts at 40. Up until now, there has been little to no changes I noticed. I’m still poor, I’m still balding, I’m still short. Guess these are not the things that change when your life starts. Can someone fill me in on […]
