Lastest Installed Software

I've installed a few software packages in the last few days:

Chicken of the VNC
CyberDuck

Google for those ... they are easy to find. Both are pretty solid. I've yet to ferret out any underlying issues with those tools (or any user-error issues :o) ).

Currently, I'm working on aliases for certain commands, specifically SSH commands so I can log into my remote hosts with one typed word. I've gotten the aliases to work but I'm still working on getting them to be sticky (or permanent). It appears that most web pages out there are focused more on pre-Tiger. It should be long before I have it working though.

I also bought a book, "Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, which is a pretty good read and appears to be very practical, although it's not as granular as I need it to be, so i may go back out and get another OS X book to assist me in my learning.

One of the book's highlights is firewalling. I had no idea OS X was using ipfw behind the scenes. I shall take advantage of that soon! :o)

OK, it's late and I've to work tomorrow (first time in a week). Laters!

Recent Software Installed

I've recently installed Chicken of the VNC (COTVNC) and XChat Aqua. While I've installed COTVNC, I haven't used it yet, but I've been using XChat Aqua since last night and it is a very good representation of the GTK-version of XChat. In fact, it actually appears better. I shall hopefully be installing some of my oper scripts from my *nix boxes onto the Aqua version on the Mac Book...hopefully they work.

I've given up on trying to get my Lexar JumpDrive working with the Mac Book, as to get the security software to work on the Mac appears to be convoluted...I'm a bit depressed.

Also, hopefully next payday, I'll be getting at least a gig of RAM for the Mac Book. I can't really afford 2GB so 1GB will suffice. I've been getting the spinning ball, indicating I've maxxed out my RAM usage for what I currently do with the Mac Book (lots of web browsers open at once, and a few other windows).

Difficulty using Lexar JumpDrive

I've been trying to access my Lexar JumpDrive on my Mac Book. I've two partitions on the drive, a public one and a secure one. Lexar has software called JumpDrive Secure that will let users access their secure partitions on the drive in a Mac environment. I haven't gotten it to work on the secure partition, only the public.

What I may do is just access the secure partition on one of my Linux machines (or maybe even the Windows machine) and copy the secure partition to my Mac machine using SCP.

I can't find any other websites that show a fix, so I'm stuck for the moment. I'll use my work-around for now.