Chris Searle

Thursday the 11th February - the router from my ISP (NextGenTel) suddenly entered a constant restart loop. Start, find DSL, find settings, connect, 2 sec or so uptime, reboot and off we go again.

We've been investigating and now have found what starts the cycle but have no idea how or why - it just seems really odd ;)

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The Pro series of NAS from ReadyNAS (Netgear) support iSCSI out of the box. But the NV+ 4disk unit does not. However - a third party plugin is available. Let's look at what is needed to get iSCSI connections between the ReadyNAS NV+ and an iMac running Snow Leopard.

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Just a short reminder - the list of paths that path_helper (/usr/libexec/path_helper is called from /etc/profile) is stored in /etc/paths. Just add /usr/local/bin at the top of the file.

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Having a very large external disk I wanted to limit Time Machine to use only part of it.

To do so - you can use the same technology as time capsule does - sparseimages.

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This is based on the information on http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/2008/11/25/enabling-xdebug-under-os-x-leopard/. Download xdebug 2.0.4 (or later - but this is based on the 2.0.4 build) - extract it.

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Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?

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The latest update to Mac OSX 10.5.3 now includes inbuilt google/address book synchronization.

However - after updating and adding my login details for gmail to addressbook it just seemed to hang with:

Can't connect to the sync server: NSInvalidReceivePortException: connection went invalid
while waiting for a reply ((null))

The solution was to remove the contents of

~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local

and try again.

Note that for account name it needed the full e-mail address complete with googlemail.com domain.

Update

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Folllowing issues after update (updated 8:55 wed 19th dec)

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Nearly all you need to know is available here:

http://www.geisterstunde.org/drupal/?q=osx_routing

All I found is that $BUNDLE refers to /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/ and the script should go in $BUNDLE/Contents/Resources - not $BUNDLE/Resources (the paths are a little mixed in the original article).

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http://metaquark.de/homezone/

A really cool little app that can do things when you move in/out of range with your bluetooth phone.

It can also trigger based on your IP or airport availability :)

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