I just found out the Italian restaurant Gennaro’s next to Mr. Roper was closed due to a gambling ring - Awesome! LJ, one of the bartenders was shown on the news broadcast as being involved. Boy, this town is lively! I do miss the food… Here’s a link to the news story on channel 7 and the Court Case Document… http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/18755915/ http://www.thedenverchannel.com/download/2009/0219/18754160.pdf View Larger Map
The command ‘man’ in terminal has an annoying feature: it clears the screen on exit. So if you find a command line switch you want to try, when you exit man the detail all disappears. To correct this, change the following line in /private/etc/man.conf: PAGER /usr/bin/less -is to PAGER /usr/bin/less -isX
After buying both the iPhone and iPhone 3g, I became frustrated with the typical iPhone problems - spotty 3g network access, no cut-n-paste, etc. As a result, I was excited about the Bold and got one right when it came out. Having used a crackberry in the past was I confident that it would be the device for me. I used the Bold for a number of days and learned an important lesson - Appreciate what you have. The Bold did not have all the answers, and after using the email and web interface on the Bold, I quickly realized that the iPhone was still the device to have. Now I have a new appreciation for the iPhone. It has issues, no doubt. But the core functionality has yet to be challenged by any competitor. After compiling a list of features and rating them, I posted the results at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pLRnDwRBVmrELW9i6ug_-fw
First off I highly recommend visiting Mr. Greg Brown’s Travel Tips. Greg has put together a concise listing of great recommendations. Thank you Greg! General Tips: For business travel, sign up for Clear. Clear went out of business. When selecting seats for flights, check www.seatguru.com for seat details. Ask your preferred airline if they have a accelerated rewards program for business travelers. Some airlines will provide at cost a 3 month trial period for you to get preferred status. During this period you’ll need to fly enough flights to keep the status for the rest of the year. US Airways provides this service and it costs $215 dollars to be promoted to Silver status. If you fly 7500 miles during the next 3 months after enrollment, you will keep the Silver status. You can also get gold and platinum status if you fly 15,000 miles and 22,500 miles in the same 3 month time period. Chairman can be reached at 30,000 miles. This is a great way to get status so you can qualify for free upgrades, etc. without having to endure a lot of flight time, assuming you are actually flying enough to sustain the miles. A few tips for traveling through Denver International Airport (DEN). ...
Recently I discovered a program called proxifier, a OS X Leopard program that will send all network traffic through a defined socks proxy server. So instead of defining the proxy settings in each individual program, simply turn on proxifier and redirect all the network traffic. proxifier is the same thing as WideCap or FreeCap in the Windows side. tsocks for OS X may work as well. So why is this important? Well, I’m on the road a lot and with a iPhone 3g that’s jailbroken you can install a socks server called 3proxy through the cydia installer and with proxifier you can route all your network traffic on your Mac through your new socks server at 3g speeds. This means I can get email, surf the web, use skype, etc. all through the iPhone Here’s the steps for a mac. It’s not that hard… Create a ad-hoc network on the mac?by using the “Create Network…” option.?I called mine “sweet” Set a static IP for your mac on the ah-hoc?network you created. I like to use?10.10.10.5 You need to have your iPhone jailbroken?and have 3proxy installed. Search the web?for details on how to make this happen.?I like quickpwn. On your iphone, select the network you created on your mac, “sweet” for me, and set iPhone’s static IP address. 10.10.10.10 will do nicely. Now, run /usr/bin/socks on your iphone. I like to set mine up in Boss Prefs so I can turn it on and off easily. On the mac, run proxifier, and point it to the socks proxy IP address of 10.10.10.10 port 1080. Your done! This looks like a pain, but if you create a network location with the IP settings, and use Boss Prefs with the iPhone, this process can be done within 20 seconds. And with FW 2.1 on the iPhone 3G the speeds are very impressive, and I even found I can answer a call while I’m surfing through the socks proxy. Make sure to turn off the socks proxy when your not using it otherwise you’ll find that your iPhone battery will run dry quickly. I also did some research on using pppd and slirp to create a complete network tunnel to the 3g network on the iphone. It appears that FW 2.x has broken slirp and it may be related to a kernel update the may have nuetered ipfw. Bummer. The following command will start a pppd session and will provide a ppp0 network interface. The problem I found is I couldn’t get the iPhone to bridge the networks. pppd is already on both OS X and the iPhone, but you need ssh on the iphone to play. ...
Here’s a few screen shots of my D-Link DIR-655 router and it’s settings to allow Back to My Mac (BTMM) to work on my home mini:
Today I experienced a firewire drive failure on my mini. To determine which drive was bad was a bit difficult since the apple profiler does not show serial number information about the drives and the firewire id can change depending on which drive was ready first, etc. After the experience I now have the following steps to take to make this easier in the future. The follow was done after I replaced the bad drive – There also appears to be a Disk Utility issue with disk replacements do I went the terminal window instead. mini:~ sean$ sudo su - Password: mini:~ root# diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *74.5 Gi disk0 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 74.2 Gi disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk1 1: DOS_FAT_32 SPAREY 465.6 Gi disk1s1 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *279.5 Gi disk2 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk2s1 2: Apple_HFS Timie 279.2 Gi disk2s2 /dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk3 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk3s1 2: Apple_RAID 931.2 Gi disk3s2 3: Apple_Boot Boot OSX 128.0 Mi disk3s3 /dev/disk4 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk4 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk4s1 2: Apple_HFS Untitled 1 931.2 Gi disk4s2 /dev/disk5 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_HFS Hugie *931.2 Gi disk5 mini:~ root# diskutil checkraid RAID SETS ================================================================= Name: Hugie Disk Unique ID: EAA0BF40-5431-4DBF-B280-5D96983C4C18 Type: Mirror Status: Degraded Size: 999860862976 B Rebuild: automatic Device Node: disk5 Apple RAID Version: 2 Device Node UUID Status 0 disk3s2 BCE5791A-9FBC-471F-BCCB-AB0B9DB0A81E Online 0 -none- FC7931AC-A4F3-468F-AC75-F48C60EABFEF Missing/Damaged mini:~ root# diskutil repairmirror /Volume/Hugie disk4 Could not find the RAID set device node mini:~ root# diskutil repairmirror /Volumes/Hugie disk4 Note: Syncing data between mirror partitions can take a very long time. Note: The mirror should now be repairing itself. You can check its status using ‘diskutil listRAID’. mini:~ root# diskutil checkraid RAID SETS ================================================================== Name: Hugie Disk Unique ID: EAA0BF40-5431-4DBF-B280-5D96983C4C18 Type: Mirror Status: Degraded Size: 999860862976 B Rebuild: automatic Device Node: disk5 Apple RAID Version: 2 Device Node UUID Status 0 disk3s2 BCE5791A-9FBC-471F-BCCB-AB0B9DB0A81E Online 1 disk4s2 21FA4F0B-7637-40CD-B396-A2C7D64589DA 0% (Rebuilding) mini:~ root#