mounting samba

I got this from this webpage: http://askubuntu.com/questions/157128/proper-fstab-entry-to-mount-a-samba-share-on-boot

(and copied it so it doesn't disappear)

I've been through exactly this same issue this morning with 12.04 and here's how I got it working:

Install cifs-utils  (even if you already have Samba and related packages installed):

  sudo apt-get install cifs-utils  

Edit /etc/fstab and add your entry:

  //server/share /pathto/mountpoint cifs credentials=/home/username/.smbcredentials,uid=shareuser,gid=sharegroup 0 0  

Create the .smbcredentials file in your home directory:

  username=shareuser  password=sharepassword  domain=domain_or_workgroupname  

Make sure you secure your ~/.smbcredentials file:

  chmod 0600 ~/.smbcredentials  

Finally, test the mount with:

  sudo mount -a  

...and you should be good to go!

Restore menu bar to firefox from Ubuntu Unity

To restore the menu bar from the top of the screen to firefox itself, within firefox go to about:config, search for "unity" and toggle to false. Ref: http://askubuntu.com/questions/312940/global-menu-bar-integration-add-on-missing-in-firefox-22-for-ubuntu-12-04

Update

Still waiting for the arrival our baby girl. Any day now.

I'm not good with frequent updates to this thing. Not much else to talk about. The baby's room is all ready to go.... Not much else happening.

Joke

What do you call a person from Portugal?

A Portu-goose!!

Eeek!!! My Tooth!

I chipped a tooth this weekend. Not like a little chip, but like the back part of my tooth came off. It was totally my fault, I guess. I was playing with a JollyRancher in my mouth. Letting it stick to my teeth and then pulling it off. You can probably guess what happened next...

This totally bummed out my weekend. I thought to myself (and others told me, too) that there is nothing I can do about it and I should go on. But, it did put a bummer on the weekend. This happened on Saturday, hours before Halloween evening. I went to the dentist today, and he doesn't think it is that bad. He wants to try putting a filling material on it to replace what came off, so that doesn't sound so bad. My tongue is really sore from rubbing it.

I really don't think I'll ever eat JollyRancher hard candy (they make Jelly Beans :) ). I'll never crunch ice, again. I'll have to be careful with popcorn; I like it and usually I have good luck not biting down on kernels.

Halloween. We didn't do much. I was really unprepared for it this year. I spent all of Halloween night carving my pumpkin. I think I did a really good job this year, you'll have to check out the pictures. We ran out of candy again this year.

Balloon Party

We had a great time at Balloon Fiesta today. It was much better than the last time we went. We went for an evening glow-deo. Today, we got up at the crack of dawn and saw all the special shape balloons launch. Then the normal looking balloons came in for a competition. There had to be hundreds of balloons, like right infront of us. It was really cool. I could only get 350 pictures, though. This was so cool, we may do it again next year. The plan was kinda to get this done while we are more mobile, but it was pretty easy getting, staying, and leaving... So for next year, who knows!

Baby's Room

Finally got the baby's room complete a few weeks ago. The painting was really easy, once we found a tick to paint a straight line. We have bullnose corners in the house and couldn't decide where to end the paint near the window. We decided to leave the window sill white and paint the flat surface of the wall, ending it where the bull nose curve started. To get the perfectly straight line, we masked painters tape on the bull nose curve. Then we painted the tape edge where we wanted the final color to be with the same white paint that window sill was. This way, the white paint oozed under the tape, filling the tape to wall gaps. So, when we painted our wall color, there was no where for the wall color to go between tape and wall, so it stayed out. Then when we removed the tape, perfectly straight line. Too bad we didn't do this for the baseboard. I had to go back over that with one of my plastic model paint brushes, razor blades, etc.

We put in a chair rail. Not too bad cutting and installing with my trusty table saw. Caulking it was a chore. I finally figured out how to do it quickly, neatly, and with minimal caulk. The secret is water-based/soluble caulk. This stuff rinses off, as opposed the permanent silicon stuff. For doing stuff in the house, on textured walls with baseboards, etc, nothing beats old-fashioned water soluble caulk. Now that it has been 3-5 weeks I'm fuzzy on what I did. I put down caulk with the tip of the tube. Then I may have used my finger to push the caulk in the crack and simultaneously wipe excess. Then I used a damp sponge, pressing into the crack hard, wiping along the seam. Do about 3-5 ft at a time, then rinse your sponge. I learned the sponge thing from watching a plumber, it is really the ONLY to apply caulk. I am totally against silicon. I don't care how much better it is against cracking, shrinking, and mold. All of that is useless to me if I can't apply it neatly. Unless I have a fish tank, with glass on glass seams, silicon is junk. For anything textured I need to have my sponge.

Of course all of this is the construction details. For the prettiness and proof of final result, I refer you to the pictures.