I have huge iPhoto and iTunes catalogs. This can present a problem for both loading the applications and for backup. I have learned to deal with the Application load times, but backups are very important to me.

At the 2010 Supercomputing conference this year, one of my tasks was to get RANCID working on the Alcatel Lucent 77xx series. for some this may have been a simple task, but for me, a self taught and inefficient programmer, it was something that took some time.
The Alcatel Lucent boxes were good performers, but their CLI is pretty awful. The prompt changes based on having unsaved configuration items, and can contain things liks an asterisk. The configuration file also displays the # symbol, a…

*Cross posted from my personal blog since it’s a technical subject*

I know this is documented elsewhere, but this was a pain for me, so I wanted to take some notes.  I have several Snow Leopard (MAcOS 10.6) Macs and a Netgear DNS-323.  I want to mount the drive using NFS and any good UNIX admin would.
Unlike older versions of the Mac OS, NFS mounts are now handled under the Disk Utility application (which seems odd to me, but whatever).
So, to make this work right I had to do the following:
First, I had to make sure that the NFS Add-on was installed on the…

I knew a tool like this had to exist, but I had never needed to look in the past.  While debugging a RA problem, I come upon the need to view IPv6 router advertisements.  How can one do this?  tcpdump?  Yeah, I guess that could work.  It’s almost like using a bulldozer when a wheelbarrow is all you need, though.  I could use ndpmon, I suppose, but that, too seems like overkill.
So, the search began. After about 10 seconds of google searching….. Success!  A tool, does in fact exist…