The bloody toe

Followed this article, which fixed the issue, immediately.  Nicely done!

1.  Launch iMovie on the Mac

2.  Connect black firewire cable from camera’s DV port to Mac.

3.  iMovie will detect camera and allow you to choose to import.  When do choose to import, you should hear the tape rewind and soon see the video import in real time (the video will play out in iMovie)

4.  At this point, I chose “Stop”.  It will then process and report that “About * minutes of video were imported.”

5.  Click “ok”.

6.  On the left, in your iMovie’s “Event Library”, you ‘ll see the event(s) that were imported.

Why is it, that, whenever I see the Garmin “Connect” website under construction, it’s in the middle of the day?  Who does maintenance in the middle of the day?  I am beginning to see a lack of regard (or something) at Garmin for those who use their website.

Some of you may remember that I griped only a week or so ago, that Garmin, after about a year of owning my Garmin 405, they FINALLY released a Mac client that I could use.  What is it with these guys?  Why do I find myself dealing more with Garmin’s technical glitches than I do my running (ok, that may have been a slight exaggeration).

This agent took a long time for Garmin to release.

In mid-April, 2008, the Garmin 405 was unveiled to the world.  I bought mine, soon thereafter, only to find that it was not supported for Macs.

The Garmin website promised functionality for Macs “soon”, but it wasn’t until 5 days ago that it was finally released.

In the meantime, we Mac users have had to launch Windows every time we want to upload our workouts.  After nearly a year of launching VMWare, uploading my runs, then shutting down VMWare, I’m very happy for this change.

However, I will certainly think twice before buying another Garmin, if their Windows-centric development doesn’t include plans to release a Mac agent in a timely manner.

However, in the meantime, I’m happy to be able to upload runs through my new Mac Ant Agent.

How you currently view your websites

If you are like the average net citizen, you find yourself visiting a standard set of web pages, every day.  Maybe you start off your day looking at 3-4 news websites, then move to a few friends blogs to catch the updates they’ve posted, then meander over to Craigslist to check and see if that futon for under 50 dollars has finally been posted.  If that’s not time-consuming enough, probably like most people, you’ll repeat this ritual several times a day.

Enter RSS readers.  RSS readers are one of the most underused tools, freely available to anyone with the ability to download and install an application onto their Mac.  You’re not using a Mac, finally?  Well, we’ll talk about that later, but fortunately, there are RSS readers available to those poor souls who are forced (or even shockingly prefer) to use one of the thousands of versions of Windows Vista *shutter*.

Notwithstanding…

The purpose of an RSS reader is to gather all of the news websites, blogs, and Craigslist updates (or any RSS-compliant website updates) that are common to you and place them in a neat, orderly view.  All of these websites are constantly updated in your RSS reader and are now in one place, so there’s no need to open endless numbers of browser windows or tabs.  Also, one of the best features of an RSS reader is that you don’t have to scour those websites, over and over, trying to discern what’s new from what’s already been read.

There are many free RSS readers to be had.  For the Mac, I recommend NetNewsWire.  For Windows, I would recommend checking out Google’s RSS reader.  I find that I save a lot of valuable time by “subscribing” to websites in my RSS reader, rather than browsing them.  Give it a shot.  The worse thing that can happen is you have to uninstall the program (I can think of worse things that can happen, but let’s start with that).

I bought my first MacBook, today.  I am happy to finally have a computer worthy of the work I do.

Run “ssh -L 3389:[target machine]:3389 user@serverip” on local machine.

Thanks to my friend, Cade, and a number of websites, I was able to figure out how to ssh into my servers at home and work, without entering a password. Here’s how I did it:

1. From the box that you primarily work from, run ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048. From here, two keys are created: id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. The id_rsa is the private key that you will keep on your primary machine. The id_rsa.pub is what will be pushed to the servers you wish to connect to, without using a password.

2. Put id_rsa in your /home/user/.ssh directory on the primary machine and put id_rsa.pub on the server in /home/user/.ssh directory.

3. Rename id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys2 on the server. At this point, you should be able to connect from your primary machine without a password. It should be noted, however, that since the authorized+keys2 file under /home/user/.ssh, that you can only connect without a password as that user, not as root. If you wanted to do the same thing as root (which is not recommended, since we really shouldn’t ever connect to a box as root, without SUing), you’d simply put your authorized_keys2 file under /.ssh.

Note:  Your authorized_keys2 needs to have permissions of 0600.

Special thanks to the following websites, which helped a great deal:

http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/10/05/ssh-keygen-tutorial-generating-rsa-and-dsa-keys/ has a good tutorial that takes you to the point of creating the private and public keys.

http://www.electrictoolbox.com/article/linux-unix-bsd/create-rsa-dsa-keys-ssh/

http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/297/how-to-ssh-without-password/

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070622210507844