a day in the life of wayne ward….

Ive been setting up a vpn for a client and wanted to do some testing on my mac so poked around at mac osx vpn gui and found a handful – tested them all and basically only got vpn tracker to work easy – i probably could get the others to work with some hacking around but i like things to be easy nowadays! anyway vpn tracker is like a hundred quid for one licence which is expensive. Im sat there thinking macs are to cool and must have this buit in so i googled to connect to a draytek 2820 from mac osx and yes it was under my nose – changed a few settings on the router and added a new vpn which was easy following some easy instructions – see below 
Once i made the vpn I had enabled remote desktops on the server so used the mac os remote desktop gui RDC 2.01 and put in the ip of the server i want to have remote desktop to and viola it works i get full access – also in the preferences you can share local printers and folders to the remote machine which works great!
a mac – a vpn – remote desktop and your away!! awsome – check this howto

Setting up VPN, consists of 2 main operations – configuring the router to accept VPN connections, and setting the computer up to connect via VPN.

Setting up the Draytek router
In the new page that opens, configure the IPSec Setup as follows:
IKE Authentication Method
IPSec Security Method

In the “VPN & Remote Access” tab in the left menu, select “Remote Dial-in User”.Select an index position from the list of users, by clicking on a number (1 for example)
In the new user page that opens, configure the user as follows:
User Account & Authentication
Allowed Dial-in Type
Username & Password

Setting up a PPTP VPN connection in OSX
At this point, you should see the VPN icon appear in the menu bar. If all has gone according to plan, it will begin with “Connecting” being displayed, followed by “Authenticating”, and then should start a timer, indicating the duration that the VPN connection has been up.

“macs kick ass”

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I became a grandad tonight at 1.01am my daughter sian gave birth to alexis mae
Both her and baby are good.

been using handbrake for years on my macs but wanted it for my shiny new ubuntu 11.10 installation – the links on the handbrake site didn’t work to good so i follow these instructions which worked great – handbrake looks better on linux than its does on mac!!!

http://pasindudps.blogspot.com/2011/11/install-handrake-in-ubuntu-1110-oneiric.html

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here are some tunings i use on the guitars

I mainly use open E and I’m starting to use open G

Standard tuning E-A-D-G-B-E (Eric And Duane’s Guitar Beats Everything)

Open G: D-G-D-G-B-D (the most common slide tuning, EC’s favourite Dobro tuning).

Open E: E-B-E-G#-B-E (Duane’s favorite tuning, Delta Blues, stress for the neck)

Open D: D-A-D-F#-A-D (also with capo for open E)

I must admit its nice to get comments on my blog posts and trackbacks

but I’m getting spammed so I’ve disabled them sorry but sick of emails every day for them for no reason!!

TA TA !!

quick fox for licence problems with mac osx – i just remove the licence and test from then on…

try again – no need to change the machine name like the dreaded windows

like gaming – gaming on linux ?…

look at jakes site

http://jakeward.co.uk/

because of the decency and respect of john the landlord of the golden lion pub last night after the first spot he came over and asked us to turn down just a notch and because of having the same conversation with members of the band a few of the lads may not agree with me and the way I work this reminds me to write this blog before i forget.

we played the stonewell tavern about a month ago, personally i have been going in the pub for over 20 years and like a pint or a glass of wine in the pub on a thursday at the jazz session or over the weekend when they have various bands on. now I’m not saying our band isn’t loud but the lass behind the bar chirped up while were sound checking saying she was shutting the place down if we played that loud, i went out front and listened and it didn’t seem quite bad considering the place was empty and the volume would get absorbed when the people we had coming to see us came in. so we started our set after few songs the land lady started to shout across the room from behind the bar at me saying turn down which i said ok and went to tell the band and then some other random woman chirped up and interfered which made her start up again shouting at me while i was performing on the stage so i asked her to carry on with her job and i will sort the band then she got high rate and told me i was rude so by this point I’m boiling so i told her she was annoying me and was ready for packing down my equipment, I’ve never had this happen to me in over 20 years of playing and personally will not put up with it fair enough if other band members want to allow this happen to them thats there choice in this case I’m not putting up with she can screw herself she is a jumped up bad excuse for a landlady end of. So i gets of stage the lass behind the bar says you going to apologise were i replied I will if she does for being so unprofessional so then I said I’m sorry so she said she wasn’t so i retracted my apology and basically barred myself from the pub. She said all the band had apologised which was a lie as my honourable band member and cousin jimmy never and said she was out of order, so thanks for the loyalty i really appreciate the honour and decency for you to look at the situation properly. So apart from getting electric shocks from the dodgy wiring and the piano taking up half the stage I’m really pissed of about it because it aint a bad pub and i like gerry but i aint playing in the pub again till i either get an apology or the place gets a new landlord well land lady. Plenty more other band places in lancaster to play instead. I also consulted my farther and other decent musicians for there option and they say I’m correct so to the other people who may disagree with me man up get a set of balls and don’t be walked over by somebody who just manages a pub whoopee shit anybody can do it, i don’t care if she is apparently a nice person i think she is a disrespectful old boot and can go and suck egg wind – end off – check out my google review aswell I haven’t finished there trust me more to come don’t like it read this TUFF SHIT.

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