Saturday, September 25, 2010

How to get Juniper Networks' VPN client (Network Connect) to work in Snow leopard

After a couple weeks' worth of searching, finally found out the commands to setup Network connect to work with my Mac at home, instead of lugging around all the stuff from work:

- install the Network Connect client.
- run it once. It *will* barf. Just clean up with a paper towel
- Drop into bash, and run the following:

bash-3.2# chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/6.*/
bash-3.2# mkdir /Applications/Network\ Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks
bash-3.2#

And that's IT!

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Europe Log day 1 of many :)

Places we went to:

In Switzerland:
Baden - walking around the city and window shopping
Schenznach - Schenznach Bad Hot Springs
Ehrendingen - Light Hike

Tomorrow:
Off to Southern Switzerland and Italy

Friday, June 4, 2010

Links to Synergy Network-KVM software and their how-tos

For those who have multiple systems and only want to use a single keyboard and mouse:
Synergy links:

http://tinyurl.com/38ux79v
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynergyHowto
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ho

This stuff is as bad-ass as wheat toast with butter *and* jam :)

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Carnaval SF 2010 Pictures posted on Flickr!

Hi folks! Feel free to checkout this link for photos taken today during the Carnaval Parade in San Francisco!

Link to Slideshow here

Enjoy!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Cmds to fix Sony Reader Software on Mac OSX

Sourced from here: http://superuser.com/questions/58305/sony-ebook-library-for-mac-no-longer-displays-its-window

rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Sony\ Corporation/Reader/
rm ~/Library/Preferences/fsk/1/com.kinoma.fskin.ktStart-kBook.xml

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Late-night weekday banter....

Good evening folks,

Looks like I'm still waiting for the remaining laundry so I can finish packing for tomorrow morning's trip, and a good time to update the blog.

Health and Exercise Updates:
Since spring is here and summer is fast approaching, charity and weekend exercise events are here! Since the last post of the tour de cure, I was able to complete the I Care Classic 65-mi ride through the hills of Morgan hill, the Bay-to-Breakers in San Francisco, and of course the walk down the street to the local safeway to get groceries. On the positive side, I'm now able to last up to ~ 13 miles jogging at a mild pace, cycling up to 80 miles, which are both personal bests. When the mindset back in 2007 was to quit smoking and get into shape, I didn't think I could achieve this. Wow. It's a great feeling and quite inspiring :)

As far as my health, I've been doing quite well. I eat breakfast on a daily weekday basis, that includes fresh fruit, cottage cheese, oatmeal, and an occasional hard boiled egg-- Lunch has also been kept to a mostly veggie-type of meal, with the occasional burger and outing here and there :)


Technical mumbo-jumbo:
I hate Acer with a passion. I picked up an Acer Aspire NAS awhile back, and didn't find out until after purchase that it did not support true raid-5-- it has a WHS version of "load balancing" which includes a proprietary method of balancing data distribution on the drives in a method called "folder duplication". Ummm yeah sure, that sounds reassuring. Just one question-- How in the heck would I be able to find files if one of the drives blew? Can we say, needle in a haystack? Anyway, so I was migrating data off the NAS when WHS decided to reboot because of an important windows update that needed to restart the system. I mean cmon.... right when I'm performing file copies?? two thumbs down for Windows Home Server (WHS). This sucker is going on craigslist as soon as I'm done.


Work / LIfe:
Vacations rock. Plain and simple. In the time I was working at my company almost 3 years ago, I have not taken vacation longer than 2-3 days. I also realized that I was throwing away days each year after not using them as we max out at a certain limit-- This year, for my health, sanity, and recreation, I have actually scheduled and taken vacation. I always told myself that one day I would love to travel, and this year I'm doing so -- North Carolina, Philippines, Switzerland, and hopefully Australia / New Zealand. Pictures speak a thousand words, and that is what I look to do when on vacation-- Enjoy the sights and sounds of foreign places and capture them in a photo :)

Also, when was the last time you were able to wake up early, watch the sunrise while jogging on a white-sand beach? :)

Tomorrow I'm off to vegas-- Talk to you later!