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Third Fifth Time’s a Charm
This is getting silly now.
For the fifth time now my car has been done over in some way with the one prior to this costing me £25 for new locks (thank you eBay for saving me the quoted £200 I was quoted at a garage). This event however the assailant managed to actually get in to my car (by damaging the lock barrel, the bodywork on the door – I now have a huge hole in it – and bending the top of the door on the drivers side) to take my radio.
They did however leave my classic rock cds bought from Tesco which is, I suppose, a good thing.
At the moment I’m waiting for CSI to come take a look (a formality when the door has been bent) before I can really do anything to it. I hope it doesn’t rain in the mean time…
VNC Ubuntu to OS X 10.4 Server
I finally managed to get a stable VNC connection to the office machines! Well, just the server at the moment, but that’s because it was the only machine on at the time…
I’ve been trying to get this sorted out since I was living at Liz’s parents house but there was a conflict with IP’s (the BT Home Hub and the work router had the same IP). There was a problem when we moved here too as the modem/router supplied to us by Be Internet was playing up not letting me change the IP address of it.
So yesterday I took a backup of the user settings, manually changed any reference to the existing IP to the new one and then ‘restored’ the settings from that edited file. Strangely it worked without a hitch!
The next step was getting a VPN connection working. This I already had set up – but it kept crashing out and being generally lagged on the old link, but with this new one (a different subnet) it not surprisingly worked.
From that internal connection I could SSH to the server, but not bring up a VNC window. I had to connect to the server from Liz’s Mac to change some settings (namely for the Remote Desktop to allow VNC conenctions with a password). Once this was sorted, I nabbed xtightvncviewer from the Ubuntu repositories via:
sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
And told it to connect. This worked very nicely, although it is quite slow but that is to do with the fact that I’m going over the Internet to make the connection rather than being in the same room as it.