Srini's Point of View

If you wanted Time Machine to work with a SMB share you will notice that it doesn’t work. To get it to work run the following command on the terminal

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Now mount your SMB share. The best way to do this is to click on Go->connect to server in the finder [...]

Some interesting tips and tricks for Mac OS X
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5435/terminal-tips-and-tricks-for-mac-os-x

It got really annoying for me to see how my terminal prompt kept changing when I connected my Macbook from work. I know I can easily fix this by setting my prompt in my .profile file, but I wanted to find out why this was happening.

It turns out the culprit is DHCP. By Default the [...]