General topic – Page 2 – My little pasture on the web.

Three monitor mac pro work station

Mac pro got upgraded to 3 monitors. 24″ in the middle and 2 19″ wide screen on the side.

Connecting Filezilla to mac PureFTPd manager

There has been some complaint from users trying to connect to the PureFTPd server on the mac using Filezilla version 3.2.6.1

Here are instructions to configure your filezilla client to connect to the ftp server.

Click on edit > settings :

Click on Connection > FTP : and select “Active”

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LG LP1200DXR portable air conditioner!!

Running 1 huge pc tower, two mac pros, 1 mac book pro, 1 dell laptop and 1 file server in the closet running constantly is making the home office about 10 degrees hotter then the rest of the house.

Some computers are actually failing due to over heating during this summer days as temperature reach 87 indoors.

Solution is this bad ass 12,000 BTU portable air conditioner :

Upgrade OS X 10.5 svn from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2

Os X 10.5 comes with svn 1.4.4 preinstalled, but you might want to upgrade to the latest 1.6.2 for many reasons.

I needed the upgrade to run subclipse 1.4.x for flex builder 3. The best instruction I found on how to do this was here.

in a nutshell

1) download the universal subversion 1.6.2 binaries for mac from here : http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community/

2) open terminal and type this : echo ‘export PATH=”/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH”‘ >> ~/.bash_profile

3) restart terminal

4) tpe svn –version and make sure you see :
—> svn 1.6.2

done.

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Home server with old G4 – pt 2

serverdoc

Once your hard ware is set up, we will need to install the software to fill the purpose of your home server. Here is a list of what I’m running and a description.

1) sharepoints

If you are running os x 10.4 or lower, this app will make it easy for you to define which folders or volume will be available to share. This is especially helpful is you have a separate hard drive as your file server. 10.5 does not require Sharepoints because it is built in.

2) DynDns

The free service from dyndns.org will give you a web address that auto forwards to your server for those with dynamic I.P. address. Not needed if you can afford a static I.P. address.

3) Vine Server

Since my server will sit in my closet without a monitor,Â svnX will allow me to connect remotely via VNC.Â OSX has built in vnc support but you can not change the default 5900 port.

4) Media Link

Get more usage out of your server by turning it into a media server. MediaLink is a UPnP server to stream photos, videos and music to your Playstation 3.

5) FtpD

FTPD is a FTP server for creating users to give access control for others to connect via FTP.

6) WebMon

Not critical, but it is a nice option to connect via WebDAV.

7) Carbon Copy

I decided not to run RAID 1, instead set carbon cloner on a schedule to backup to the second hard drive once a week. This helps incase I accidently delete a file, since deleting a file on the server will delete it immidiately.

Another option was iBackup, but that does not do incremental backup. Incremental backup is where it only backups files thats been modified, so it doesnt back up the entire disk every time. If i delete a file on my main drive it will also delete it on the back up drive.

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