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Recently I’ve had a bother with the Mac firewall asking me if I want it to accept incomming network connections every time I open a particular application.

The appropriate setting can be found under:

System Preferences : Personal > Security > Firewall

I have mine configured to “Set access for specific services and applications” which normally asks me if I want to allow an application to accept incoming connections the first time I run it and that’s normally the end of it. The trouble comes when you try and update certain applications using Software Update. I’m not exactly sure what causes the problem but for some reason with specific applications the firewall then proceeds to ask you, each time, if you would like it to accept incoming network connections. This you can imagine is superlatively tedious.

The answer though is to just delete the application from you applications folder and reinstall it. The first time you open the freshly installed application it will ask the question and then bug you no more. Then all you have to worry about is not updating it via software update again.

To Test POP3

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 110 (xxx = mailserver)
+OK Hello there.
user USERNAME
+OK Password required.
pass PASSWORD
+OK logged in.
stat
+OK (Information about your mail)
quit
+OK Bye-bye.

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Remember now as you pass by,

that as you are so once was I.

And as I am you too shall be,

prepare ye then to follow me.

Only a breach of criminal law may lead to prosecution. Breach of civil law, however, could well lead to the defendant being sued.

As trespass is a civil offence and not a criminal one then trespassers will most certainly not be prosecuted.

This post is attributed to my brother whom provided the information in the same conversation he tricked me into mis-answering a QI like question. More on that story later.

I’ve been working on some sites locally on my Mac but by default the files are stored in a directory in the individuals user account called Sites and the address you’ve got to type into your browser is http://localhost/~username/etc… this annoyed me because I didn’t want to have to type the tilde character in the address and also that I had to have the files showing in a subdirectories of my user. I couldn’t be doing with it, I wanted to have addresses like ‘http://localhost/subdomain/’ and the solution of course is to use symbolic links.

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…what I know now!

Today I’ve been having a conversation with my mother and we were talking about relationships and personality. We’re both of the opinion that its futile to attempt to change yourself in order to please someone else. If only I knew then, what I know now cropped up.

A paradox. The epiphany can never be true. I find in conversation that this phrase usually refers to attitudes and not knowledge. I have now the attitude I do only because of the experiences between then and now so it becomes impossible to ever have the vogue attitude without the requisite experience.

Jase

I want to hold you close to me.
I want to feel your warmth embrace me.

I want to feel your heart beat.
I want to smell your scent, sweet.

Your touch is all I need.
Your attention my only greed.

When all I wanted was for you to stay.
It wasn’t right, now, you’ve gone astray.

I’ve been meaning to try Joomla for some time and a friend mentioning it last night was the impetus for me to give it a go. I downloaded the latest stable version just now and decided to give it a go.

I was very impressed by the installation script and how it guides you through the installation process with handy guidance, however, I feel it falls down in one area.
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I’ve been doing some work involving an application that needs to query databases on separate servers however one of the servers will only accept mysql connections locally so the way round it is to forward connections from a port on one system to a port on a remote system. That way the connection to the remote database will appear as though it originated locally and be accepted.

To set up a tunneled connection you issue the following command on any client:

ssh -fNg -L 3307:127.0.0.1:3306 myuser@remotehost.com

The first command tells ssh to log in to remotehost.com as myuser, go into the background (-f) and not execute any remote command (-N), and set up port-forwarding (-L localport:localhost:remoteport ). In this case, we forward port 3307 on localhost to port 3306 on remotehost.com.

Recently I’ve been getting a few promotional txts from T-Mobile about their products and services. Now one of my phones is plugged into my computer to send text messages (see this post) so its a bit of a hassle to unplug the phone and delete them.

I phoned T-Mobile and asked them to stop! The helpful Scottish girl on the line said that she’d commence the internal process to get it sorted but that I could send a free text message to stop…

Text ‘STOP’ to 49001

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