Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-03-06's Pub Meet.

2018-03-07 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
The roots of n²-1 are n+1 and n-1. That might have relevance to those that heard about multiplying 255ths by 257 when scaling [0, 256) to [0, 256²). Cheers, Ralph. For anyone that has an Amazon Echo thingy, ask it for sqrt 2, sqrt -1, and sqrt -2. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth,

[Dorset] Links from 2018-03-06's Pub Meet.

2018-03-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Clive, try `sudo -i smbpasswd theusernametofix' to reset an unknown password of a Samba user on that particular machine. You may need to do this on each of them; I've never used Samba. :-) https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbpasswd.8.html As well as Samba, NFS is still