Linux

Today I installed the latest in file sharing: BitTorrent. Was a bit cumbersome as I first had to install wxPython. And to install wxPython, I needed wxGTK. There is apparently a RedHat9 RPM around, but the download site was down all day long, so I got the source wxPythonSrc-2.4.1.2.tar.gz from sourceforge. After that I tried to download the RedHat9 CDs as I need a clean Linux install to test Adobe Acrobat 5.0.7 and Crossover Office (Acrobat 5 crashes immediately after start on my RedHat9 system and the Crossocer Office seems also to be somehow compromised by excess fiddeling).

I have been using is for years, but hardly have used its "advanced" options. That is:ls -t to sort the content of the directory according to modification date. ls -d to display the directories and not their contents. ls -alh lists the complete content of the directory in long, human-readable form (that means file sizes are given in B, K, M or G and not in bytes).

Mount Samba shares
Apparently it is very easy to connectfrom within Nautilus to Windows computers (or rather to computers running smb services). The only thing you have to do is to type smb:/// into the URL bar and the network is browsed for available domains, workgroups and services. However when one tries to open some files (e.g. some image) there often appears the error message that those files cannot be accessed via samba.