Does it work? The answer is yes!
All you have to do is edit the sshd_config file on the OpenBSD machine and set X11Forwarding to yes, then fire up X (I’m using XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple18)) and in an xterm (or Terminal.app!) enter

ssh -Y user@openbsd_machine program

Voila!
P.S.: Actually, you don’t even have to start X on either end of this connection, it will still work. I just tried

I love vim. I love firefox. I love Vimperator because it lets me control firefox as though it was vim. Nuff said. If you love vim, then you should install this

http://vimperator.org/trac/

Oh – and Happy 4th Birthday Firefox!  (http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-11-09.html)

Why can’t I just reboot? Why do I have to choose some option from a dropdown? I only wanted to reboot! Now I was tricked into shutting down a server that isn’t even in the same zipcode! What the hell Microsoft? Why couldn’t you make reboot the first choice? Now I’m stuck making calls and e-mailing people to say “sorry I was confused by the crazy windows shutdown options”. Shutting down should be easier. Instead, the first thing you have to do is click START, which makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, then you have to choose from some silly dropdown to explain why. I’ll tell you why I was rebooting Microsoft! I’ll tell you why! It’s because you force me to reboot in order to get anything done! that’s why! That’s why I have to reboot the damned server! WTF?! You make my life miserable at every opportunity. Is it because you know I hate you? Is it because you know I’m using a mac and have a FreeBSD machine and OpenBSD machine at home? is that it? Is it because you know about my Ubuntu desktop machine? What is it? Why must you torture me this way?

I was just looking through my archives and remembered the Golden Apple Project. Ahhh yes. Well it turns out that the machine was so old it just stopped working altogether. OpenBSD was running just fine on it, but after a year the network card died and when I tried to add a netgear PCI NIC it caused kernel panics. I do have a new apple PPC machine that I have been prepping to handle light duties, her name is aphrodite and she’s a little red iMac. It’s my hope that I can keep at least one PPC box running unix in my little computer family…

Ever see this?

dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.150 for client xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is duplicate on 192.168.1/24

or something like it, in your dhcp logs? Well I checked /var/log/messages today and saw that I had thousands of this message repeated over and over (so much so it was spamming my log  and making it harder to find what might be important stuff). I searched around the ‘net and found some hints but nothing conclusive. The hints pointed toward a duplicate lease (duh) but more specifically lead me to check my leases file. Mine was located in /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases.

It turns out that what caused this error for me was that I had started the machine in question (the MAC address has been altered to protect the innocent haha) before I had the time to create a reservation for it. Then after it already had an address leased to it, I created a reservation for it (for internal DNS purposes, nothing more). Apparently because duplicates are allowed by default in isc dhcpd, when the machine’s networking was restarted and it got it’s new reserved IP, the server kept the original lease (which was that .150 address) and also got a lease from it’s reservation (.80 on my network). Since the .150 lease was still present in the leases file it caused the warning message (over and over and over for a month).

So if you are using isc dhcpd, and you use reservations, and you’re getting these error messages, you might want to check your leases file and make sure that you don’t have a lease for something that also has a reservation under a different IP.

The other pages I found on my search also suggested that you might have a reservation that hands out an address that is within your dynamic scope. You definitely don’t want to do that, so you may need to check that out as well in your dhcpd.conf.

For the curious, I run FreeBSD 7 on a Pentium 4 Dell desktop (I think it’s a dimension series, I haven’t looked at it in a while haha) that sits in my kitchen as a headless DNS/DHCP/Web/Random Unix Fun server. It’s actually making lots of bad noise lately and I think one of it’s fans might be going I’ll check that out and report back

I am not going to shut this blog down because it’s still got some useful info on it, but I really don’t update much. I did just help someone who found my blurb about Apple’s ilo-like features, so that was cool. Every now and again someone finds something I’ve posted and thanks me and that’s fun. I have been using facebook for the little bits of stuff that I’d post here so this blog ends up being neglected.

Well, if you’re interested in what’s goin’ on with me….

I’ve gotten engaged, I’m working on music more often lately and hope to have my latest creation available for selected listeners soon (this could mean you!). What else? Hmm I biked in the tour de bronx, which was somewhat poorly organized but still lots of fun. I have every intention of voting for Barack Obama and that doesn’t make me a socialist or a terrorist.

I guess that’s it for now

I just walked by this place called Garrett popcorn. If you ever wondered what popcorn would cost of 5th avenue, here you go: it’s $2.30 for a small buttered or plain and it’s $185.00 for a 6.5 gallon tin of caramel crisp w/ nuts. The 1 gallon tin of caramel crisp is only $40.
If you ever see me spend $40 on popcorn just ask me for money, as I will surely have won the lotto and will be giving away money freely!

Am I the only person in the world that finds it poetic that a gentle old man is asking the world for peace from inside a bullet/bomb proof mercedes benz?

If you have a mac and use wireless to connect, you might expect that it will automatically join your wireless network after you tell it to “remember this network”. I know on my old powerbook it did, and on my girlfriend’s macbook it auto-joins too. So I started wondering why my macbook pro just wouldn’t do it. I searched the keychain and found my network in the login keychain, so I thought something really bizarre was going on. When I checked console (the console app in /Applications/Utilities) it said my network wasn’t in the system keychain!

To make a long story short (as my mother would say), I found a solution here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6757490

It turns out that when I moved System Preferences to /Applications/Utilities it broke my mac’s ability to add networks to the system keychain! I moved it back to /Applications, deleted the network from my network preferences and keychain and then joined the network again. This time the network was added to the system keychain and all is well!

UDG – Ultimate Dog Gear.