Running is therapy

I am working on a post about the wireless ap I built using FreeBSD, but in the mean time I thought I’d post on a few personal items.

First, I am hacking away on various at home projects, not the least of which is the aforementioned wireless access point. That was a blast, and I hope record the steps I took in decent detail for the post. In fact, I am connected to my lan via said ap right now.

Eventually it will be my only access point, and router, but I am planning a vacation for July (to a beach house with no net), and I want to take it with me. I plan to use the GSM modem I bought as the wan interface, and the atheros card I put in there on the lan side. To that end, I thought I should get the ap working first.

Running is going ok. I am not at my peak performance. I decided about a month ago to try an experiment. I stopped using my orthotics to see if that helped my heel pain. And while my heel does feel a little better (at least I think it does) my knees have been aching a lot in protest to the new gait I am sure I have developed.

So I am sitting here currently with ice packs on my knees, eating advil.

And one of my cats has flown the coop… No not gone off to college, though that would be great, he has gone to live with my girlfriend. I am slowly, moving my dudes to her place so they are not so alone all the time. And Alex needed dental surgery, so while he was under, I had him declawed. I don’t advocate declawing, and hadn’t gotten my guys declawed. However, Shelly has 2 cats, neither with claws and furiniature that doesn’t look like it came out of a frat house, so we decided to get my guys done. When Alex first came home I thought I had made a huge mistake and felt pretty awful about having it done, but a week later, he seems just as happy and healthy as ever. So in the end I am cool with it.

Well, it’s time to take the ice off my knees, so I will see you all later.

Happy catting!

I really do. So after spending a pretty frustrating day trying to get a development environment in windows set up, I finally got to the part where I was going to put postgres on the machine.

Easy I thought. Those guys do good work. And they are cool enough to autogen you a password.

Um. wtf.

Sometimes virt-manager (over a less than optimal link) will be unusable. Never fear, it’s simply creating an ssh tunnel, and then connecting you to vnc. No reason to let it have all the fun.

First find out what port the vnc server you want to talk to is listening on

root@vm.foo.com:~# virsh dumpxml dns | grep graph
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system



There we see it’s port 5904, now tunnel that port over ssh

ssh -L 5904:localhost:5904 root@vm.foo.com

Then open the vnc session in a viewer

npowell@malaise:~$ vncviewer localhost::5904


Cibatta bing. You in!