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2005-11-16, 23:46: Yet another month passed...

Astounding how time goes by. Enough of that sentimental crap.

I needed to remote control my VLC so I made a bunch of shell scripts: VLCRemoteControlShellScripts.

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2005-10-17, 18:55: Learned a cool phrase...

"Die Hohe Kunst der sedimentären Datenablage" - meaning "the higher arts of sedimentary data storage".

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2005-10-15, 14:37: Hamburg... (updated 2005-10-17, 18:54)

• • Do's
    • Walk around the Binnenalster upload:binnenalsterlightshow.jpg
    • See the cool down-counting traffic lights at Gänsemarkt upload:fussgaengerampelcountdown.jpg 11 seconds 'til green...
  • Dont's
    • Ask at the reception for a second pillow
    • Got to the Hofbräuhaus - it's for yuppies. Cigar Lounge, and Türsteher at the entrance... upload:hofbraeuhaushamburch.jpg

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2005-10-10, 13:15: Apple Remote Desktop (ARD)...

is pretty cool - but lacks support for secure connections (or over a firewall). But it is possible.

• First make sure, you use this settings: upload:ardadminsettings.jpg
• Disable remote administration on the administrator's Mac via "Sharing" in System Preferences.
• Do this via ssh: ssh -L 3283:remoteHostEthernetIPAddress:3283 -L 5900:remoteHostEthernetIPAddress:5900 user@remotehost
• Because ARD Agents DO launch, regardless wether you disable it in "Sharing" and ARD Admin Preferences, you have to start first ARD Admin and then send kill -1 to the following processes:
  • /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle...
  • /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Mac...
• On Administrator's Mac connect to "localhost" (which will be forwarded to your remotehost).

That's it!

And now the ARDOverSshForwardScriptExample!

PS: Ever wanted to do User-Switching by shell? This will make the active user suspend, and bring the Login Window up: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

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2005-09-22, 08:58: Star Wars Episode V...

has some minor goofs:

• Leia speaks of her father...which could only mean step-father, since her father is Darth Vader.
• C3PO says that he doesn't know Obi Wan Kenobi (which he should since he met him in the earlier episodes)
• Obi Wan Kenobi says he doesn't own or know R2D2 (he should, he meets him in the earlier episodes)
• Han Solo uses "parsecs" as a time unit...

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2005-09-21, 13:32: Are you annoyed by the iChat 2.x graphical smileys?

...I was. And here's how to get rid of them:.

sudo rm /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/Resources/*.lproj/SmileyTable.plist

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2005-09-19, 15:49: Ever had the problem, that your FileVault didn't have enough space?

...I did. My FileVault was only 12 GB big (weird - I wonder why it can grow at all!).

Here's the solution, "grow" your sparseimage while logged in from a nother account (making sure you are not logged in with the image's owner's account).

sudo hdiutil resize -size 25g heiko.sparseimage -stdinpass

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