Darkavich's Daily Ramblings Ramblings of a Mad Sys-Admin

August 20, 2008

Apple remote desktop through NAT

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 9:55 am

For those of you wanting to know how to use ARD through a firewall or NAT bridge:

If you wish to use the Remote Desktop application from behind a NAT router, you will need to set UDP port forwarding for port #3283 to your administration computer. If you wish to access a client computer that is behind a NAT router, you will need to set the router to forward UDP port #3283 to the client computer you wish to access. Note: You will be able to access only that client computer.

August 17, 2008

Observations of the day.

Filed under: Things Peeves Would Do — Darkavich @ 12:34 pm

Doing my 40 mile bike ride today, I ran into the following drivers who may be elligible for the darwin awards real soon.

1) Driver with food in one hand and a cell phone in the other (25 mph). She didn’t see any of the cyclests around her and almost wipe out one of them.

2) Driver who thinks a Yield sign means I am bigger than you so I won’t stop. I pointed to the yeild sign and explained he needed to yeid. I got the double bird and an explitive. I hope he exits the gene pool real soon.

3) Group riders that think they can ride 5 abreast on a two way bike path. Where the F*CK do you think I am going to go you selfish idiot?

About time I made a decision.

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 12:31 pm

Ok, those that know me, know that I take forever to make technology purchasing decisions. In my job, I have no problem saying, “This is what we need to buy” and just do it. In my personal life I agonize over buying everything. I hate make decisions on technology because it changes so quickly and I feel like if I just wait I can get a better deal or better tech.

I have been waiting about two years to decide on getting an SLR digital camera. I have watched my friends buy and sell them over the last few years but still wanted to wait.

Last night I decided to finally jump into the pool and purchased the Canon Xsi

Xsi

It should take about a week to arrive, which is good since I will be on business travel until next Saturday. I look forward to it arriving when I get back.

August 16, 2008

time machine

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 6:47 pm

Thanks to Trevor for this little piece of information on how to manually run a time machine backup from the command line: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper

Simple to put into cron when needed.

August 13, 2008

Display the Colors

Filed under: Items in the Pensieve — Darkavich @ 12:17 am

While watching the woman’s gymnastics tonight I noticed an american flag in the stands improperly displayed. I think that every patriotic american should understand the rules. While surfing around, I found the following site: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html

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