May 2009 Archives

May 27, 2009

How to start VNC remotely on a Mac OS X

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Mac OS X No comments

Once you get SSH’d in you can change the VNC password and start the VNC service using the following command:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -setvncpw -vncpw VNCPASSWORDHERE -restart -agent
So have fun remoting your box!  Btw to VNC over SSH just type something like: “ssh -L 5903:localhost:5900 example.com “.  You can then VNC [...]


May 19, 2009

Force umount on Linux

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux 1 comment

Did you ever had a problem to unmount a drive/share on a linux system? Maybe the mount share is not accessible but the mount still there.
Example:
umount /mnt/blah
unmount error 16 = Device or resource busy
Refer to the umount.cifs(8) manual page (man 8 umount.cifs)
You can do the following:
umount -f /mnt/blah
If it doesnt work, use the lazyness method:
umount [...]


May 7, 2009

Try windows 7 RC 7100

Posted by Martin Perron in Featured, News 1 comment

Want to try windows 7 RC 7100 ? Easy! go download your free copy to
http://windows7.com/

It supposed to be the latest Release candidate!
Enjoy!


May 1, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 is out!

Posted by Martin Perron in Featured, News No comments

Sorry about my lazyness! Im late on the news but… Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 is OUT!
Also,we can now have a netbooks versions call Netbook remix
Enjoy!
Download

http://Ubuntu.com