This was useful to me recently. I thought I’d post it here in case I forget how to do it in the future! It’s a way of letting you run sshd on a port other than 22, or in addition to 22. Be sure to read the comments on how to do the latter easily. Note that although the instructions are for Tiger, it works fine on Leopard too. macosxhints.com – 10.4: Change the default sshd port
To my iMac! Yay! On the 10th of March last year, I took delivery of my shiny new 24″ iMac. It marked the ditching of my last remaining Windows PC. Have I regretted it? Not in the slightest. It’s still just as nippy as it was a year ago. I can do everything I want to do on it, and everything just seems so much better, easier, and even quieter. It also draws less power than my old PC, takes …
Disney are bringing their own music game to the Wii and DS with Ultimate Band. Thankfully, it isn’t filled with High School Musical tracks – it actually has proper music! You don’t need any instrument peripherals either. Behold: And the blurb: Ever wondered what it would be like to experience living like the Ultimate Band? Well this is your chance to find out! To celebrate the launch of Ultimate Band on the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, Disney Interactive Studios …
This video looks like some sort of stop-frame animation made with the sort of miniature people you get for train sets, but in fact, it’s all real. Real actual people. Tilt-shifting is a method of changing the focus of shots to give this sort of effect. (via Why, That’s Delightful!)
It was never meant to be a serious contender for any sort of awards. Samuel L Jackson pretty much only took part “for the lulz”. Even the name is stupid. But the film? Stupid. And rubbish. But watchable, for some reason. Nobody in it can act. The special effects are simply “special” (the green snake’s POV? Rubbish), and the plot doesn’t make any sense. There are holes all over the place, such as needing to know which snake bit who, …
Imagine my surprise when I happened to notice these though my camera. You can’t see them on the Wii’s sensor bar through just your eyes, but the camera managed to pick them up. The Wii wasn’t even on! Now I know they’re there. Burning into my face all day.
Not to be outdone by Jim, I thought I should point out my recent forays into fame and glory. Last summer, a company called TV Choice contacted me after finding my website. They wanted to come and interview me for a day, and film me for one of their educational documentaries. When they turned up, they filmed some of my old computers, and asked me about games “back in the day”. Because I’d told them I work for a school, …
Fellow newsgroup person, ugvm magazine contributor and Citizen of Norwich A Fine City(TM) whom what I know through t’t’tinternet and a mutual friend (but separately until I realised it was the same person – the internet is the smallest place in the world) Jim Taylor is famous! Sort of! There’s a gallery in Castle Mall displaying photos of Norwich, taken by people who are on Flickr. And Jim is one of them. Today, I was in Castle Mall, so went …
I finally figured out how to fix Pine on my Leopard box! For, well, ever, it hasn’t let me post any news messages to my local leafnode server. Every time I tried, I’d get an error stating my post was rejected due to error 441, which is an invalid error. I eventually tracked down that the actual invalid header was the message-id header, which was being generated as something like: Message-ID: Pine.OSX.4.64.098263998623986.75543@myimac Which is wrong. The bit after the @ …
Thanks to the mysterious (and sexy) The Goat Keeper, I’m now the not-so-proud owner of a US version of the Wii stinker “Heatseeker”. Of course, I knew it was going to be rubbish, but that wasn’t the point. No – I needed something to test if my UK Wii could play imports. And, of course, it can: I show that the disc isn’t recognised by the Wii, then fire up the Homebrew Channel and from there load Gecko OS. One …
I’ve recently started using Acrobat (yeah, about 14 years late) to annotate PDF files, and it has been irritating me that whenever I highlight something, Acrobat decides to add my Windows logon name as the “author” of the highlight. Since this logon name has no resemblance to my actual name, it’s effectively useless. Helpfully, Adobe don’t make it easy for you to change it to read something else. After much playing about, however, I figured it out: Firstly, you need …
Yesterday morning, I turned on my 360 and bought some Microsoft Points so I had enough to buy the GTA IV expansion “The Lost and Damned”. I then bought the expansion. Then set about downloading the 1.8GB it takes up. At about 70% through the download, I had to go out to the shops. While I was out, I saw Lego Batman cheap in the shop and bought it. And that’s all I played all weekend. Lost and Damned be …