If you run a virtual Linux machine as a VMware appliance, and you have VMWare Tools installed, you can let it write to folders accessible from the Windows host. This takes two steps. First, in VMware Player (as of 3.0) you edit the virtual machine settings -- enable Shared Folders in the Options tab, and [...]

I'm messing around with Ubuntu Hardy on a Dell Latitude D400 that got a new lease on life with a refurbished keyboard, battery, hard drive, an extra 1G of RAM and new rubber feet. Hey, the rubber feet are important. The times may be tough, and this little box may be old, but I won't [...]

What can a Stata user do with a Samba server? Pretty much the same thing you would do with any computer. My Stata is installed on my Windows PC. Now Samba allows me to store either do-files or data on the remote FreeBSD server and access them easily. Suppose that the remote box were called [...]

My home server runs FreeBSD 7.0. I administer it from my Windows XP laptop, in the air-conditioned comfort of my home office, over wi-fi. The server runs OpenSSH. The laptop runs PuTTY. I wanted the added security of using SSH key files instead of password authentication. Google and the helpful bunch at the PC-BSD Forum [...]