Archive for May, 2009

Moving iTunes Mac to Windows XP

My wife prefers windows-xp to MacOSX so I needed to move her iTunes library to her PC.
After hunting the net on this subject I eventually came across the following solution.
(Thanks for hifiblog.com).
1. Install iTunes on the PC
2. Create a zero length iTunes Library.itl file in the /Users/mick/Music/iTunes folder on the mac:
touch /Users/mick/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library.itl
(The backslash is [...]

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Resize iTunes to fit screen

I run both a macbook and a macpro and periodically synchronize between the two of them.
Unfortunately as the screen on the macpro is considerably bigger than the macbook 13″. Occasionally I open an application only to find the window is bigger than the screen so using the mouse I cannot minimise. Help is at hand [...]

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Skinny CCIE IP Nat Problem [not]resolved

As mentioned in my profile I am studying for my CCIE Voice Lab exam. Well I have been plagued by a problem with phones not registering when using Rented Lab Kit and physical IP phones in my home POD.
My POD is connected to the Rented Lab Equipment over an encrypted link that is also NAT’d.

One [...]

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IOS On FreeBSD (Zebra or was it Quagga)

Zebra is a look a like IOS front end for routing on Linux and *BSD systems. It became popular are routed went commercial (might be slightly wrong over that).
I was looking to get dynamic routing installed on FreeBSD and initially installed zebra from the port. However after considerable effort to get it up and running [...]

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Web Tunnelling over SSH

Not new information but all the same useful for either secure traffic or bypassing web cache restrictions.
First example is a socks proxy to allow you to secure web traffic over a wifi link or just avoiding web caching filters.
From unix, linux, *BSD or MacOSX type in :
ssh -N name@ssh_server -D 9999
or from windows download plink.exe [...]

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