Testing Scribe Fire
November 11, 2011
Testing…. this thing on??
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Getting Time Machine to work on an Unsupported NAS
December 31, 2010
Getting Time Machine to work on an Unsupported NAS « Apple Clinic, the FAQ Repository
Getting Time Machine to work on an Uns
pported NASSome of us may own Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and/or may feel that an Apple Time Capsule is too expensive, and hence would rather buy a seperate router, NAS and Hard Disk Drives. This guide will help you to enable Time
Machine on any NAS, allowing you to have the functionality of a Time Capsule, with hardware of your own choosing.1. Prepare your NAS. Make sure it is fully functioning. This mini-guide assumes you already have one that is functioning well,
and you know how to manage it.
2. It would be preferable to assign your NAS a Static IP address. Check your router and NAS documentation for guidelines on how to do this.
3. In OS X, open up Terminal and enter the following command to ena
le Time Machine to work with your NAS: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
4. Log out of OS X and Log in again. You do not need to reboot your machine.
5. Time Machine saves backups in a very speci
ic format, and we will use a sparsebundle to get this done. The sparsebundle name consists of your Computername_MACaddress.sparsebundle.
6. Find the MAC address of the machine’s internal Ethernet port with ifconfig en0 | grep ether | sed s/://g |
sed s/ether// in Terminal. This will return one line of output, which is the MAC address for the Ethernet port, which will be a string of 14 hexadecimal characters (letters and numbers, for example, 001ec4b8f9b3).Even if the network backups will be done using a different port (e.g. AirPort: usually en1), the system will use the MAC address of en0 as part of the system identifier.
7. Make a new “sparsebundle” on a local disk (NOT the Time Machine disk!). This sparsebundle is a virtual filesystem image which we’ll copy to the NAS, and Time Machine will then access it remotely (that way Time Machine’s not limited by the filesystem features of whatever NAS it’s using: all the funky stuff happens within the sparsebundle). By default sparsebundles can keep growing until they fill up the NAS, but in this scenario we keep other things on the NAS as well as backups, and we’re going to limit the sparsebundle size to 70 GB.Enter the following command in Terminal:
sudo hdiutil create -size 70g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “Backup of My Mac” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -verbose ./Computername_MACaddress. This will create a 70GB sparse-bundle as a case-sensitive, journaled HFS+ without spotlight indexing. Substitute variables in red for values you need. Computername_MACaddress may be in the form of “DansComputer_001ec4b8f9b3
8. Log into your NAS and create a user Account (Eg, “TimeMachine”). You may want to assign disk space quotas for this user if you need to.
9. On your NAS, create a shared folder (Eg, “TimeMachine”). Add the user account you created in step 8 above, and grant that user Read+Write privileges.
10. In Finder, select Go>Connect to Server. For the server address, type smb://TimeMachine@ip-address-of-nas/TimeMachine. Click Connect and when prompted, enter the password and save in your keychain.
11. Now copy your locally created sparsebundle into the TimeMachine share. If you did not change the folder when you entered command prompt, you may find this sparsebundle in your Home folder (/Users/yourusername).
12. On your NAS, check to see that the file is copied under the correct user account.
13. Open up Time Machine, select your “TimeMachine”-folder as the desired destination, and the backup will start.
14. Tip: For the first backup it is recommended to connect via LAN, as you will be able to get a throughput of 10-30MB/sec.
15. If your NAS allows for it, you may now hide your TimeMachine folder so they do not show up over the network share list.Hope this helps.
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The FZ1 rides again!
November 24, 2010
back in may, i wrecked the FZ….. i had to “lay it down”
well…
I started to low side it into the rear corner of a car that had just locked up their brakes right when i hit the right hand blinker and did a right shoulder head check…. the right lane was not clear, so i looked forward again, only to discover that the white car in front of me was stomping on the brakes.
I grabbed lot’s-o-front and stomped lots-o-back locking up both tires. This resulted in me starting to low side/slide the bike and planted the left side of the faring into the right hand side of the rear bumper, and rear quarter of the car.
For a few feet I was the unwanted threesome in a bike car mating ritual before i was gracefully deposited on the road and left to slide on my belly to the front of the stopped car. Having come to a stop i then watched my bike fall to its left side and slide….. slide some more…….keep on sliding…… It was like watching some wonded animal living in denial that it had suffered a mortal blow finally succumbing to gravity and loss of momentum in a crumpled heap on the ground.
I wasn’t going fast, it was bumper to bumper traffic, and i was only doing ~35 to 40.
Funny thoughts go through your head during moments like this…
- during the belly slide, as i was feeling the concrete just a few layers of clothing away, “thank god i am wearing this jacket” the jacket being a mesh jacket that i had just bought a few months back.
- As i was laying there watching my bike continue to slide down the freeway…. “I guess that Arkansas trip next week is out.”
Somone called the ambulance, i was told not to move, but that pavement was HOT! When the ambulance showed up I was up and walking around by then, even had my helmet off. my left knee was skinned about the size of a silver dollar in a bad way, but i declined the trip to the ER (this only saved me a ambulance ride because that’s where i ended up anyways).
I even rode the bike home.
I got home, and had the most urgent urge to use the bathroom… hobble to the throne room….. urine is not supposed to be red…. so off to the hospital i go. I walked in to the ER, said “motorcycle wreck” and out came the backboard, neck brace, ct scans, xrays….and other tests… only to find that everything was where it should be. well that’s a relief! but why am i pissing blood? Doc asked if i could give a sample…. sure…. yup, still has blood in it…
I cant recall exactly what the doc told me next, but the high points were penis, insert tube, leak down test…. my reply was “that sounds very invasive” in a very deadpan voice.
the “leak down” was preformed, and why would they torture a cat in the next room, because those screams were very disturbing…. 1 cm tear in my urethra.
They had to knock me out, so that a folly catheter could be “installed”, and remain installed for 2 weeks, so that arkansas trip was really out of the question now. Hell my 2 week cross country trip in july was starting to look like it might be out of the picture too
having a folly catheter is something that i would not wish on anyone. At the end of week one, my world revolved around what had become known as “The Tube”, and by the end of week 2 any simple movement required 20min of preplanning so as to not upset “The Tube”.
Needless to say me and “The Tube” parted ways, i recovered, even was able to make my 2 weeks cross country trip (used the honda VTX for that).
During all this time, the poor fz1 sat in the garage… broken and bent.
When i started pulling the bent/broken parts off the girl, front faring was trashed, front faring stay was bent, the left faring stay was bent, and the tab that it attached to was tweaked. clutch lever is bent. The tank is tweaked, and had a nice dent in it… and that’s it!
I replaced the faring, and the bent bits, and what i thought was a bent handlebar, moved back to center when i loosened the handle bar clamps.
still need to replace the tank, clutch lever, left bar end, and the left side frame slider….
Rode the fz1 to work today, first time since the wreck… 
wow, i missed ya girl!
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Arkansas 2009!
April 30, 2010
Just did a 5 day trip to Arkansas!
David, Mike, Larry aka Gumbo, Ron, Robert, and Me!
Day one! 513 Miles
David had mapped an exelent route through NE Texas that was truly amazing. If you try to follow a route like that with out a GPS, i would just go mad! every 10 miles the GPS was telling me to turn left, turn right…. Whoot!
We made a stop In Whitehouse TX, at MawMaw’s fried pies!
It was GOOD!
Then we got back on the road. We were able to end the day by riding the 1st half of the Talimena Drive. where we stayed at the Queen Wilhelmina State Park Lodge. This was a great lodge right on the top of the scenic drive it self.
Day 2: 249 Miles
We rode from Queen Wilhelmina to Eureka Springs, stopping to stay at the 1876 Inn & Resturant. This would be our home base for the next 2 nights. On the way we got to ride the PigTrail!
We got the the hotel with still daylight to burn, so a few of us went for a small ride.
and we found this kick ass suspension bridge! Followed by a Dam
Great way to end our 2nd day of riding!
Day 3!! 220 Miles!
As riding days go, this day was some of the best that we did, and probley some of the more challenging. Riding arkansas “Little Dragon” (hwy 123) was a blast! sharp unmarked hairpin turns on a steep incline… woah nelly! And when the turn is marked 10mph, it damn well means 10 MPH!
Two of our guys earned the Arkansas Road Surfer stripes this day, and we saw some great scenic beauty, waterfalls, and overall a very good time.
Day 4. 282 Miles.
Today our group group split into two groups. David and Ron, went south/south west heading towards Hot Spring. Rest of us went to the Bike rally in Fayettville, we had plans to hook back up after we visited the rally.
I said farewell to Gumbo, Mike and Robert and hauled ass to catch up with David and Ron. Caught up in time to visit a few sate parks, see a cool waterfall, and take a few more pictures!
We then hauled it to Hot Springs for the night. the last 15 miles were done in the dark. Longest 15 miles in my life. Almost hit a rabbit, and an aggressive truck almost took us all out!
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