This went well :) The only problem I had was caused by my being too fast! I changed the fixed IP address, glanced at the mask but didn't look at the gateway, which was still set up for 198.162.1.1... changed this to 10.0.1.1 and up it all came.
Updated the various AV and spam software apps and all that was left to do was set up the TC printer. This required repairing Bonjour, then the Epson on the TC was found and printed OK.
That was fast! No more tasks for today..
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Time Machine (TM) scheduler
I had lunch with Susan at Vollen on Friday, but afterwards had time to check out TMscheduler. This allows one to reduce the frequency of TM's hourly backup to something sensible like 4 hours. Most of my data is on line at Google, and for system backup the only answer is SuperDuper!
Its now Saturday morning, and I have finished the usual maintenance routine with MacScan, Clamscan, and checked that Appfresh no longer turns up the trojan... all is well :)
Its now Saturday morning, and I have finished the usual maintenance routine with MacScan, Clamscan, and checked that Appfresh no longer turns up the trojan... all is well :)
Thursday, 13 March 2008
At last! Time Capsule arrives
The 2nd package from TNT went astray for an extra day.. wrongly sent to Sætre apparently :)
Anyway, I unpacked it straight away, plugged it into the output from Linksysp4pe, said it was to be the extension of a wireless network, and up it came. However the backup throughput of iMac to TC was around 2MB/sec, and would have taken many hours. Connecting it on the end of Linksys was not giving me the highspeed connection thats needed for backup over net..
Out with it all, and what a job it was to restart. Pressing TC reset for 5 seconds clearly did something, but it needed to be done a couple of times and be powered down before the Air Utility setup window was available. I have removed the Linksys, using just the TC as an access point and NAS drive. The local IP addresses are from 10.0.1.2 to 200 so I started at 20 for the iMac and 30 for Madge. Had to sort out the pppoe gfraser@online info with the original k pwd and up it all came.
After about 2 hours of backing up Madge's 19GB there is about an hour left to go. Slow compared with USB/Firewire, but OK for NAS on the Air I guess.
So, I have lots of spare Linksys routers in case Hege's fails. Tomorrow I'll connect it up to the PC through ethernet and make sure it comes up OK after changing the fixed IP there too.
Anyway, I unpacked it straight away, plugged it into the output from Linksysp4pe, said it was to be the extension of a wireless network, and up it came. However the backup throughput of iMac to TC was around 2MB/sec, and would have taken many hours. Connecting it on the end of Linksys was not giving me the highspeed connection thats needed for backup over net..
Out with it all, and what a job it was to restart. Pressing TC reset for 5 seconds clearly did something, but it needed to be done a couple of times and be powered down before the Air Utility setup window was available. I have removed the Linksys, using just the TC as an access point and NAS drive. The local IP addresses are from 10.0.1.2 to 200 so I started at 20 for the iMac and 30 for Madge. Had to sort out the pppoe gfraser@online info with the original k pwd and up it all came.
After about 2 hours of backing up Madge's 19GB there is about an hour left to go. Slow compared with USB/Firewire, but OK for NAS on the Air I guess.
So, I have lots of spare Linksys routers in case Hege's fails. Tomorrow I'll connect it up to the PC through ethernet and make sure it comes up OK after changing the fixed IP there too.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Found a virus/trojan
The first I have come across on Mac! It was either the app Iceclean - an LCC-like app - or the Appfresh update yesterday, or somewhere I have been yesterday. Its called Exploit.URLSpoof.gen and is a very old trojan. Clamscan caught it and I have quarantined it on HD1Leopard. It was hidden deep in an appfresh sqlite file. Am now checking yesterday morning's backup on Leopard clone, and will later check Air where I have run Iceclean, or at least installed it, but not Appfresh IIRC.
Monday, 10 March 2008
Time Capsule still not delivered
I'm getting very close to writing very rude things about TNT! I've already said them to myself in no uncertain terms... this is an almighty screwup from my point of view, but no doubt one of many from TNT's point of view. Nærsnes being on the edge of civilisation and all that. I called them early this morning to hear if it was on its way or sent by post, and could get no decent answer. She would call me back but now at 2:15 pm it seems a bit late. Don't these people take into account that someone is spending time being available for their delivery!? I've wasted a week already. Damn them!!!
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Google Reader improved even further
While Google Reader doesn't support filters yet, there are some tools that might help, of which I liked the following.
Google Reader Filter is a Greasemonkey script which lets you define a list of keywords you're interested in, and a list of uninterested keywords. The script highlights the posts that include your favorite keywords in the title and grays out the posts that contain keywords from the blacklist. You can use regular expressions for defining complex restrictions, like dates or long titles. This goes partway toward the automatic duplicate remover I have been hoping for..
Not sure if I mentioned the other improvement which made GR instantly better for me. It is an extension by Gina Trapani called naturally enough "Better GReader". The key improvement is that it gets rid of all the stuff you are not interested in above the entries, giving more viewing space, AND when you click on a an entry of interest it previews the entry on the Greader page! Fantastic...
Google Reader Filter is a Greasemonkey script which lets you define a list of keywords you're interested in, and a list of uninterested keywords. The script highlights the posts that include your favorite keywords in the title and grays out the posts that contain keywords from the blacklist. You can use regular expressions for defining complex restrictions, like dates or long titles. This goes partway toward the automatic duplicate remover I have been hoping for..
Not sure if I mentioned the other improvement which made GR instantly better for me. It is an extension by Gina Trapani called naturally enough "Better GReader". The key improvement is that it gets rid of all the stuff you are not interested in above the entries, giving more viewing space, AND when you click on a an entry of interest it previews the entry on the Greader page! Fantastic...
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