I've never really used NFS before. So I decided to give it a go on my new debian server. After installing openvpn both on the server and the client I of course needed to put the nfs stuff onto my server. Installed nfs-common and nfs-user-server, tweaked /etc/defaults/portmap to bind the portmapper to one ip, adjustet /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/exports and watched the syslog while trying to connect:

Aug 15 02:13:50 ffm-root58 mountd[30063]: NFS mount of / attempted from 10.2.0.6
Aug 15 02:13:50 ffm-root58 mountd[30063]: / has been mounted by 10.2.0.6
Aug 15 02:13:50 ffm-root58 nfsd[30061]: NFS request from eisenuschi originated on insecure port, psychoanalysis suggested

Semi-True. A psychoanalysis might be a good thing, but / hasn't really been mounted by 10.2.0.6:

Eisenuschi:~ root# mount 10.2.0.1 test
mount_nfs: bad MNT RPC: RPC: Timed out

Not mounted. Alright.  Adding "insecure" to the /etc/exports entry fixed this. Server mounted, Jannis happy. I then asked google about tips on how to map uids between server and client, when darwin assured me, that it's nfs-implementation is more broken than working (click to enlarge):

 

Where's my remote debugger? Samba, here I come! 

Not even a month after it's inital release, OSX Tiger gets updated by apple. Finally. Let's see which of these malfunctions are fixed by the update:

• coreaudiod: crashes every once in a while
• Mail: goes crazy with some IMAP servers causing heavy load (on the server!)
• iChatAgent: crashes, aim connection is not exactly stable
• Some Quartz-Compositions crashed the whole systems
• iSync: crashes while syncinc with my 7610
• Backup: crashes on each backup-attempt

The update is 37,7MB large, so chances are good these issues are fixed... I hope.

Edit:

I'm sooo, excited... ugh...

Edit 2:

Edit 3:

Apple, this is the point where I start disliking you. Release early and often? Yeah! Release before things are working? No!

If you also lost some icons in your dock during the Tiger-upgrade, I can assure you, that one will be back :) After I installed Tiger a good week ago, the iTunes symbol in my dock suddenly had this ugly default-icon, with pencil and ruler. No good. So I installed iTunes 4.8 (31), which isn't availible via software upgrade but only via apple.com, and the icon is back. Yehaa.

Isn't this good to know and totally interesting to you? I knew it!

My Mac (and I) switched tables today. It used to sit on the right table, which is a little smaller than the left one. As most of my work is done with the Mac instead of pen and paper, I decided to put it on the bigger desk.

On the very very left you can see a wall-mounted 17" lcd-monitor. I've been using it for almost seven years now, and it's still working. It's connected to an extra linux/windows machine I have hidden beneath my desk. Where are it's mouse and keyboard though? Nowhere!

My mac and the wall-mounted screen are controlled only with my mac's keyboard and mouse: If the pointer leaves the left side of the mac-screen, it enters the wall-mounted screen. I used to use X2vnc and vnc before, but now that I switched to a mac, I've come up with another solution called synergy (not the iTunes-thingy). Nice.

P.S.
Does anyone need a LCD-stand? I happen to have a spare one ;)

After installing Tiger, I must say two things:

1. The iTunes-widget for the dashboard doesn't work. It keeps telling me iTunes is not running, even though it is.
2. If you klick on "More Widgets" in the dashboard, you are taken to a url, which is password protected: "Restricted Area". What the fuck?

Also I am wondering why the price for Microsoft Office Mac 2004 increased from 149,-€ to 179,-€ on apple.de and 169,-€ on amazon.de. Apart from that: Hell yeah.