Su Mystery Theater (12)

And the same stuff for the beloved piccolina...
No problems at all after installing the whole shebang on Balrog.

Su Mystery Theater (11)

Installed a bunch of updates on Trantor.
No problems at all after a few customary reboots.

Keyboard shortcuts

A couple of keyboard shortcuts I have been using on Os X for a while now.

They actually don't do instead of doing, or, better, they replace the default key binding that I find stupid for the given programs.

On the case of Mail.app, I have disabled 'Command + q', I can't recall how many times I have typed that instead of 'Command + w' while perusing an email...

For iTunes, I simply hate typing 'Command + g' instead of the mopst useful keyboard shortucut on Os X: 'Command + H', and thus getting the Artwork Column displayed.

Updates dujour

More updates, no problems after the install...

2009-07-03 02:42:57 status installed man-db 2.5.5-1build1
2009-07-03 02:42:59 status installed menu 2.1.41ubuntu1
2009-07-03 02:43:00 status installed libperl5.10 5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1
2009-07-03 02:43:03 status installed language-selector-common 0.4.2.3
2009-07-03 02:43:03 status installed language-selector 0.4.2.3
2009-07-03 02:43:03 status installed libpurple-bin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.2
2009-07-03 02:43:03 status installed pidgin-data 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.2
2009-07-03 02:43:04 status installed perl-modules 5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1
2009-07-03 02:43:04 status installed perl 5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1
2009-07-03 02:43:04 status installed libcompress-raw-zlib-perl 2.015-1ubuntu0.1
2009-07-03 02:43:04 status installed libpurple0 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.2
2009-07-03 02:43:05 status installed pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.2
2009-07-03 02:43:06 status installed libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
2009-07-03 02:43:06 status installed menu 2.1.41ubuntu1

Tiger ntpd configuration

Right after you have finished setting up your Tiger's ipfw firewall, stop by the NTPD Pool Project page, and pickup a group of those near to wherever you are.
Stop your ntpd daemon, like this:

% sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/NetworkTime/NetworkTime stop

Then, edit the file '/private/etc/ntp.conf', and add those, the file has to end like this:

server 0.south-america.pool.ntp.org prefer iburst minpoll 12 maxpoll 15
server 1.south-america.pool.ntp.org minpoll 12 maxpoll 15
server 2.south-america.pool.ntp.org minpoll 12 maxpoll 15
server 3.south-america.pool.ntp.org minpoll 12 maxpoll 15
server time.apple.com minpoll 12 maxpoll 15
server clock.via.net minpoll 12 maxpoll 15

And then, start the daemon once again, it will print a message while connecting to the remote ntpd servers:

% sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/NetworkTime/NetworkTime start
Starting network time synchronization
Looking for host 0.south-america.pool.ntp.org and service ntp
host found : imp-254.topgroup.com.ar
Looking for host 1.south-america.pool.ntp.org and service ntp
host found : c8daab2b.maxiweb.com.br
Looking for host 2.south-america.pool.ntp.org and service ntp
host found : titan.cais.rnp.br
Looking for host 3.south-america.pool.ntp.org and service ntp
host found : mail.wholenet.com.ar
Looking for host time.apple.com and service ntp
host found : time7.apple.com
Looking for host clock.via.net and service ntp
host found : clock.via.net

Let it run a couple of minutes, and then query it, like this:

% ntpq -np
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 200.218.171.44  .INIT.          16 u    -  68m    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
 146.164.48.5    .GPS.            1 u  136  68m    1  324.722   -3.956   0.001
 64.209.30.130   128.2.1.22       3 u  135  68m    1  239.466    9.647   0.001
 200.80.32.170   91.189.94.4      3 u  134  68m    1   10.275  -12.162   0.001
 17.151.16.23    17.254.0.49      2 u  133  68m    1  219.404   -6.055   0.001
 209.81.9.7      .GPS.            1 u  132  68m    1  230.757   -0.375   0.001

Saturn's pictures

Amazing pictures from Saturn.

Saturn from Space

Updates dujour

Updates & more updates.
And once again, a kernel update. Everything seems to be fine

2009-07-02 01:15:12 status installed linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.45
2009-07-02 01:15:12 status installed linux-headers-2.6.28-13 2.6.28-13.45
2009-07-02 01:15:14 status installed linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.45
2009-07-02 01:15:14 status installed linux-libc-dev 2.6.28-13.45

The current Ubuntu desktop

Well, the browns have to stay put for a while...
Switched to a blue looking Ubuntu for the moment.

Uncompressed copy on Image Shack

Updates dujour

Tiny bitty update for today.

2009-06-30 16:54:34 status installed man-db 2.5.5-1build1
2009-06-30 16:54:36 status installed lsb-release 4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.1

Updates dujour

Bunch of updates for this cold Monday, doesn't seem to be any problem after the installation.

2009-06-29 13:44:00 status installed man-db 2.5.5-1build1
2009-06-29 13:44:01 status installed doc-base 0.8.20
2009-06-29 13:44:03 status installed ufw 0.27-0ubuntu2
2009-06-29 13:44:04 status installed libcups2 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2
2009-06-29 13:44:04 status installed libcupsimage2 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2
2009-06-29 13:44:04 status installed libpoppler4 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.2
2009-06-29 13:44:04 status installed poppler-utils 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.2
2009-06-29 13:44:04 status installed cups-common 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2
2009-06-29 13:44:30 status installed cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2
2009-06-29 13:44:31 status installed cups-client 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2
2009-06-29 13:44:32 status installed cups-bsd 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2
2009-06-29 13:44:32 status installed libpoppler-glib4 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.2
2009-06-29 13:44:32 status installed libxi6 2:1.2.0-1ubuntu1.1
2009-06-29 13:44:33 status installed libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6