Monthly Archives: June 2011

STiB v0.2 Released

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Chris

STiB is a project aimed at implementing Microsoft’s BITS Upload Protocol. The v0.2 release of STiB includes an updated stibtest program that adds minimal support for the HTTP GET command.  The key feature is that stibtest allows the user to … Continue reading →

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Interviewed

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chris

The annual Samba eXPerience conference was held last May in Germany. Some of us Samba-folk were interviewed by Linux Outlaws.

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jCIFS 1.3.16 Released

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chris

Mike Allen has released jCIFS 1.3.16. jCIFS is an SMB/CIFS client toolkit written in Java.

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From Göttingen to Redmond

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Chris

The 10th annual Samba eXPerience conference was held last May in Göttingen, Germany.  It marked several major milestones (well, it was the EU, so these were Kilometerstones): SambaXP was the unofficial end of my one-year hiatus from SMB/CIFS development. During … Continue reading →

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Taking Charge of a Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar; Part 2

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Chris

In Part 1, I went through the procedure I used to take control of a Seagate Freeagent Dockstar, most of which involved streamlining instructions from other sources. Now that the Dockstar has been tamed, it’s time to teach it to … Continue reading →

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Taking Charge of a Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar; Part 1

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Chris

The Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar is a small ARM-based embedded computer based on the Marvell Sheevaplug design.  It is quite easy to reflash the ROM so that it boots Linux from a USB device.  Back in December of 2010, the price … Continue reading →

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