The long goodbye: Leaving Mac OS X for Linux

I’ve been a Mac user for almost twenty years. While I’m still not quite ready to move away from it completely, I’ve taken the first steps lately: I’ve bought a new Thinkpad E540 and got started setting up GNU/Linux. My first tries with Debian Wheezy were painful and after a few installations I decided to …

Fixing SMB shares after OSX update

I’m running OpenELEC on a Raspberry Pi and my Macbook Air serves a number of SMB shares for it using SMBUp. Having installed a security update for OSX this evening I noticed that my shares had become unavailable. I tried to start SMBUp in order to get the shares back online only to be presented …