sudo apt-get -y install libpam-mount smbfs

Then edit the global configuration file to allow for user config files:

sudo gedit /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml

# Make sure the line with <luserconf is uncommented.
# Make sure <mntoptions allow=”*” /> is uncommented.
# Turn on debugging: <debug enable="1" />

Now create a file called “$HOME/.pam_mount.conf.xml” for the user, substituting your user ID for myuser and changing various other settings to match your Windows share setup:

gedit ~/.pam_mount.conf.xml

Add this to the file (change user specific elements):

<pam_mount>
<volume
    user="*" fstype="smbfs" server="serveraddress.com"
    path="folderpath" mountpoint="~/mountpath"
    options="nodev,nosuid,iocharset=utf8,noperm,user=myuser,domain=MYDOMAIN"
    />
</pam_mount>

Keep in mind that your Ubuntu user ID does not have to match the Windows login ID (that is specified in the config file), but your Ubuntu password does have to be the same as the password for the Windows login ID.

You will have to log off and back on to test it out. Errors should go to the "/var/log/auth.log" file:

tail -f /var/log/auth.log

Once things are set up you will probably want to turn off debugging or you will see logs of PAM debugging output in odd places:

sudo gedit /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml
# Turn off debugging: <debug enable="0" />

This assumes the user has webmin installed and understands how to log in and use it. (Usually bring it up in a browser at https://localhost:10000 )

• Make sure that postfix is installed. In Webmin this is done by going to "System", "Software Packages" then clicking on "Package from APT" and entering "postfix". And you may want to install "mailutils" to test the mail system out.

  OR, from the command line:

  sudo apt-get install postfix mailutils
  # Choose the SMTP server mode when configuring.
  

  If Postfix was already installed, then make sure it is installed as an SMTP (not local) mail server. That appears to be the default when installed from Webmin:

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix
  

  Click on Webmin "Refresh Modules" to get Postfix to show up.

• In Webmin click on "Servers", "Postfix Mail Server", "SMTP Authentication And Encryption".

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  Enter "[smtp.gmail.com]:587 in the "Send outgoing email via host" entry box.

  Check "Login as" and enter your Gmail user name and password.

• Return to Postfix main page and click on "Virtual Domains". Add a lookup table by clicking on the "..." next to "Map specifications".

  Check and enter a "Mapping file" of "/etc/postfix/generic", then click "Save". Click "Save and Apply".

  Now go to the "Virtual Domains" page again and click "Add a new mapping.". Enter the local address to remote address mapping, for example "root@localhost" to "my_user@gmail.com". An entry should be added for each user that is expected to send mail.

• Since I never figured out how to set these through Webmin, just add the following manually to the "main.cf" file.

  Click on "Edit Config Files". It should be editing "/etc/postfix/mail.cf" by default. Add this line above "smtp_sasl_password_maps=..." (order of entries seems to matter):

  smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes
  

  Add this to the bottom of the "main.cf" file and click "Save" (make sure there is a new-line at the end):

  ##### client TLS parameters #####
  smtp_tls_loglevel=1
  smtp_tls_security_level=encrypt
  smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
  smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic
  

• The easiest way to test sending email is to use the 'mail' program:

  sudo apt-get install mailutils
  echo "test" | mail -s 'Test 1' user@testaddress.com
  # Then check the logs to see if it bounced or had a problem
  tail /var/log/mail.log

Here are a couple of issues I have run into, along with my fixes:

Missing Tray Status Icons

Tray icons for things like Dropbox, Google Desktop Search, and Cisco AnyConnect don't appear in the new Unity interface.  I thought maybe they weren't supported because of some new way they are supposed to interface with the system.  But it turns out there is a way to "whitelist" any old-style app.

I decided to just "whitelist" all apps using the technique found here:

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-re-enable-notification-area.html

What I did was to just run the following to bring up 'dconf-editor':

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf-editor

Then, in the editor, I went to "desktop", "unity", "panel" and change the value for 'systray-whitelist' to be ['all'] from the default of ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service']

Eclipse IDE Missing Menus

It looks look Eclipse doesn't handle its menus the way Unity wants, so by default you end up with no menubar in the Eclipse window itself, and no menubar at in the top bar of the screen either.  Creating an environment variable assignment in the shell of UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 will make the menubar show up in the Eclipse window.  I found the best way to make sure it runs is to add it to the shell script that starts up Eclipse.  Just add the following to the top of the shell script:

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0

Startup Bar Tweaking

One of the things that is kind of annoying about Unity is that the icon bar on the side for starting apps is severely lacking in ways to configure it.  It works very well out of the box, but I would like to be able to add custom launchers and I have not found a way to do that.

To keep items in the bar even after they run, right click on them and select "Keep in Launcher".  To move items around, drag the icon away from the bar and then back to it where you want it.

Weird Overlay Scrollbars

To remove the dynamic overlay scrollbars that are mostly just confusing to me:

sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar

Source: http://ubuntu4beginners.blogspot.com/2011/04/disable-overlay-scrollbars-in-ubuntu.html

Added Blogging eggs to buildout:

collective.blogging
collective.bloggingmaps

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
M.S., Electrical Engineering, June 1991
3.3 GPA, honors
General Electric Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1988-89

Davidson College, Davidson, NC
B.S., Physics, May 1988
3.5 GPA
Charles A. Dana Academic Scholarship, 1985-88

Technical Summary

• Extensive experience with software design and development in Python, C++, C, Perl, SQL, Ada, Fortran, LISP, Tcl/Tk, AWK, Bourne shell, sed.

• Software development and many administration/maintenance tasks on Linux and Microsoft Windows (also Solaris, SunOS, AIX systems).

• Revision control and software maintenance/testing with Subversion, CVS, RCS, Python's PyUnit and Doctest, Perl's Test/Harness.

• Experience with popular software packages and API's including C++ Boost Libraries, Zope/Plone web application server, XML-RPC, Apache (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, StrongHold), X Windows API, OpenGL API, Microsoft Office suite, and Python/Tkinter GUI framework.

• Co-organizer of Python Atlanta monthly user group meetings, including hosting the meetings and making presentations.

Experience

Georgia Tech Research Institute
Software Engineer December 2001 to present
DoD SECRET clearance since 1988

• Technical lead on poultry industry worker safety evaluation system project integrating software and electronics of human arm/body motion tracking and EMG sensors into a wireless data collection system.

• Project director for 2 years on State of Georgia funded >$200k project researching the use of laser projection technologies as an augmented reality human interaction system in industrial settings.

• Created Plone/Zope based customized on-line poultry industry information systems survey and presented results at US Poultry & Egg Association Information Systems annual seminar for three years.

• Ported MS Visual Basic guided munitions simulation to a new C++ simulation framework.

• Designed and implemented system to automatically parsed static code to generate new C++ software that evolved genetic algorithms of embedded missile warning receiver software.

• Created Python/Tkinter based GUI on Linux for ray-trace rendering software written in Fortran. This included interfacing with extensive flat file database system, and creating a complex input script for the rendering software.

• Wrote an easy-to-use spreadsheet-like GUI front-end in Python/Tkinter on Windows 2000 that ran a MathCAD model of an Active Protection System for a US Army TACOM project.

ZapMedia, Inc.
Internet Software Developer, October 2000 to August 2001

• Designed and developed Internet applications (Zope ZClass and Python-based products) targeted for interaction with convergence multimedia device, including coding maintenance system for large-scale image database.

• Dramatically improved product performance by designing and developing caching system to integrate with Zope Catalog internals.

• Engineered and led web development group's platform shift to Zope Presentation Templates to improve web designer UI/logic integration.

• Enhanced product through diverse system tasks, including writing Apache Rewrite/Proxy rules, benchmarking Zope performance, building testing and productivity tools.

• Attended Zope track of SPAM9 Python Conference in Long Beach California representing ZapMedia.

Cox Interactive Media
Internet Software Developer, December 1998 to October 2000

• Managed group of 7 developers as Developer Manager from July October 2000, reporting to CTO. Handled coordination of developer resources with Project Manager

• Key developer handling evaluation and initial development effort using Zope Open Source web application server. Helped Digital Creations develop Zope based free classifieds ad software for CIM sites and create example site software for stress testing.

• Principle developer on search system which consolidated search results for all CIM sites; Written in Perl, this system used LWP and exec'ing CGI's to gather the search results from LookSmart, Verity and other databases and used templates to present the results.

• Designed and developed efficient system for handling user site customization using Apache mod_rewrite rules to parse cookie information.

• Modified system for handling news feeds which included AP Online; Perl code processed stories and inserted them into Informix (using DBD/DBI SQL interface) and into Verity.

• Maintained and modified many software systems such as data feed processors, user login/authentication system, in-house designed and built content production system, and many CGI's to handle such things as postcards and polls.

Georgia Tech Research Institute
Software Engineer October 1991 to December 1998
DoD SECRET clearance since 1988

• Principal developer of graphical user interface architecture (Xgtsims) and data management system for EO/IR threat/sensor simulation environment (GTSIMS) using Tcl/Tk and SQL.

• Principal developer in transition of Xgtsims to Tcl/Tk and porting to seven different Unix platforms.

• Installed and customized a problem report management system (PRMS) for GTSIMS, including web-based access in secure and publicly accessible areas.

• Member of laboratory software engineering process group that lead a process improvement effort toward a CMM (Capability Maturity Model) level-2 rating.

• Integrated GTSIMS legacy Fortran data generation and conversion programs into GUI by automating with C programs and Tcl scripts.

• Developed three-dimensional interactive visualization tools with C, Tcl/Tk and Open GL.

• Director of $45k project to develop GTSIMS IR models of the C-17 for McDonnell-Douglas

• Developed web based email browsing and mailing system using OO Perl CGI scripts.

• Developed large number of in-house tools and utilities and maintained Apache web server for laboratory official web pages and employee pages.

Georgia Tech Research Institute
Systems Analyst, Graduate Research Assistant 1988 to October 1991

• Developed FORTRAN and C code for modeling of three-dimensional objects in IR.

• Developed C code to generate three-dimensional models of botanical trees using recursive botanical growth based algorithm.

I first opened up the remote and soldered wires into onto the PC board.  Here you can see the two black wires connected to the main open/close switch, the black single wire connected to the negative, and the red conected to the positive.  After soldering these in place I cloased things back up and screwed the single screw in place on the back.

After doing this, I checked in the car and found a fuse for an always-on circuit.  I believe it is the stereo circuit, according to a forum posting I saw.  I have not been able to find out what fuses are what in the fuse box.

This picture shows the add-a-circuit system I installed to get the power for the circuit.

The next picture shows the point where I got the negative connection using a splice connector (is that what they are called?).  The splice connecter is red and connected to one of the black wires going together with all the other black wires that are ground wires.

I removed one of the plastic place holders for a DSC switch or some other option that I didn't get in my car.  There are three spots for switches to the left of the steering wheel.  One has the passenger air-bag disable switch, and the others are blank in my car.  I remove the left most one by prying it out with a screw driver from below.  Not exactly elegant, but I am not sure if there is a better way to remove it.

I then drilled a hole in it and reamed it out with a rasp till my pushbutton switch would mount inside the hole.  All in all it came out looking pretty good for a switch I happened to have around the house.  I soldered a wire and some connectors so I can disconnect things if I need to.

I mounted the switch plate back into the dash and connected everything up.  I checked to see if it worked again.

Then I stuffed the remote up in with all the other wires in the panel.  Not sure yet if the reception will be good where it is since all my tests so far have been inside the garage.

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The first step is to remove the triangle side panels. Do this by putting the flat part of a screw driver against the point of the side panel that is toward the front of the car.  Pull directly toward the back of the car and it pops off.

Do the same thing for the other side panel.

Next remove each screw on the side of the head unit exposed by removal of the side panels.

Once that is done, put a towel down on the center console if you don't like scratching up all the plastic in your car.

Then grab the two sides of the head unit and pull toward the back of the car.  It should move backward pretty easily, but don't pull it back too far since there are cables that aren't very long connected to the back.

The next part was the hardest for me.  Remove the connector at the bottom of the panel that is goes to the climate controls.  I did it by pressing in the tab on the bottom and prying on the sides of the connector with a screwdriver.

Then reach in and cut the tape that bundles the wires behind the head unit.  Once that is done the head unit can be pulled out quite a way without unplugging the main connector for the head unit and the antenna connector.   Although the antenna connector probably got pulled out in the initial pull on the head unit, so plug it back in if you like FM or AM radio.

This picture shows the back of the head unit with the climate control plug removed from the bottom plug.  The satellite plug is the white one on the top right next to the antenna plug.

We moved back to the US for almost a year and lived in Lawrence, Kansas.  After our furlough in the US we returned to Indonesia and lived in Lahat, which is on the island of Sumatra as well.  While there I attended Indonesian schools till the third grade in the mornings, and my Mom taught me through correspondence coursesin the afternoons.  I read a lot, and tried to keep up with whatever my older brother was doing.

We did another year in the US in Tucker, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, GA.  There I attended the fourth grade where I was prolific at drawing horses heads that the girls all liked.

We then moved back to the big city of Medan on North Sumatra.  I attended the Medan International School, an American style school that no Indonesians were allowed to attend.  It was a great school for me and I learned a lot in the small classrooms from the great teachers.

After five years in Medan we moved back to the Atlanta area and lived in Decatur, GA.  I attended Decatur High School, which was a bit of a change.  Classes in general were pretty easy and it was hard to get used to the fact that most people had not travelled around the world -- many had never left the US.  But I survived.

• Sim Harbert's resume

Highlights:

• Grew up in Indonesia from 2 to 14 years old.
• Attended Decatur High School, in Decatur, GA
• Physics B.S from Davidson College in Davidson, NC.
• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
• Worked at Georgia Tech for many years in at GTRI (Georgia Tech Research Institute).
• Currently work at GTRI again in the Food Processing Technology Division.

Other Info:

• Sim's Childhood