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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: No AirTunes support in Front Row

Just upgraded my Mac mini I use as a media center to find out that the new Front Row does not stream to remote AirTunes speakers as it did in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Front Row sound goes only to audio out, which is connected to the TV. One more thing: the music stops when leaving the Music menu in Front Row. Mac OS X 10.5.1 update does not fix these problems. Apple Support Discussions thread is here.

iPod touch YouTube proxy issue

“YouTube not available” error message is shown on the iPod touch display when a proxy server is configured.

I see a 404 error message for http://iphone-wu.apple.com/feeds/standardfeeds/ in squid logs.

Same problem reported on Apple Discussions.

Watch your home TV anywhere

Thanks to Sling Media, I can watch all cable and Pay-TV stations in Qatar, streamed directly from my home over the Internet. I can even remote control the Set-Top Box.

Sling Box (classic) connections: analog antenna (tuner) – cable, Composite input – UPC STB. The setup will be complete with a DVD HDD recorder (connected to S-Video input and also to the STB).

The new Sling Box Pro is on the way from amazon.co.uk.

EU VPS wanted

I am still searching a reasonable-priced Linux Xen VPS located in EU (256 MB RAM, few GB storage).

Thanks, eNom

Checkout on https://www.enomcentral.com/checkout.asp

We are unable to process this transaction because we are currently not accepting orders from this IP.

Incriminating IP was 86.125.5X.XX.

SIP phone issues with Belkin ADSL Wireless Router

The old Linksys WAG54Gv2 died so I replaced it with a brand new Belkin F5D7633uk4A. Everything working fine except two SIP accounts on my Siemens Gigaset S450 IP (“Authentication error”). Also I got authentication errors and SIP 408 Timeout with X-Lite using the same SIP accounts.

Also, Belkin web interface can not manage static routes, which is bad.

Version info:

Runtime Code version F5D7633-4Av1_UK_1.00.17
Boot Code Version 1.0.37-5.15
Hardware Version V1.0J3
ADSL Modem Code Version A2pB018e.d16f

Looks like there’s a transparent SIP proxy running on the router. I could ssh with admin username and web interface password to the router. Finally found siproxd running!

How to disable siproxd:

siproxd disable
save
reboot

How to add a static route:

route add IP NETMASK GATEWAY
save

All available commands:

?
help
logout
reboot
adsl
atm
brctl
cat
ledctrl
df
dumpcfg
echo
ifconfig
kill
arp
defaultgateway
dhcpserver
dns
lan
passwd
ppp
remoteaccess
restoredefault
route
save
swversion
wan
ping
ps
pwd
siproxd
sntp
sysinfo
tftp
wlctl

Google Checkout Error: Oops!

Google Checkout Oops!

Employee of the month

Employee of the month

Mac OS X 10.4.10

Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.4.10.

dmesg on my MacBook (2 GHz Core 2 Duo), after waking from sleep:


hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
PAE enabled
64 bit mode enabled
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 250352 free pages
mig_table_max_displ = 71
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
88 prelinked modules
ACPI CA 20060421
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: ready
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Started CPU 01
IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
disabled
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 15260DE8-0203-4212-9466-15556D0E73ED
Waiting on IOProviderClassIOResourcesIOResourceMatchboot-uuid-media
USB caused wake event (EHCI)
FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5811 PCI now active, GUID 0019e3fffe17e748; max speed s400.
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2@2/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/FUJITSU MHV2080BHPL Media/IOGUIDPartiti
onScheme/Customer@2
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe:
CSRHIDTransitionDriver::start before command
CSRHIDTransitionDriver::stop
IOBluetoothHCIController::start Idle Timer Stopped
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
GFX0: family specific matching fails
display: family specific matching fails
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
display: family specific matching fails
GFX0: family specific matching fails
ath_attach: devid 0x24
Override HT40 CTL Powers. EEPROM Version is 14.4, Device Type 5
mac 12.10 phy 8.1 radio 12.0
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
yukonosx: Ethernet address 00:17:f2:35:45:8c
AirPort_Athr5424ab: Ethernet address 00:17:f2:ed:e1:5a
Registering For 802.11 Events
[HCIController][setupHardware] AFH Is Supported
display: Not usable
hfs mount: enabling extended security on iDisk
hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 1073741824, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 3
hibernate_alloc_pages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
System SafeSleep
hibernate_page_list_setall start
hibernate_page_list_setall time: 68 ms
pages 123664, wire 39512, act 10902, inact 21338, zf 8255, could discard act 19502 inact 24155
hibernate_page_list_setall found pageCount 123664
IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0
IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
writing 123106 pages
image1Size 50124288
all time: 3438 ms, comp time: 534 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
image 127003648, uncompressed 325423104 (79449), compressed 125113272 (38%), sum1 c476b009, sum2 49678d1b
hibernate_write_image done(0)
sleep
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Started CPU 01
IOBluetoothHCIController::restartShutdownWL this is a wake from sleep
System Wake

New off-site backup solution – rsync.net

I signed up with rsync.net for an off-site filesystem. Opted for geo-redundant version (automated nightly replication to other site) located in Zurich, Switzerland. Very fast speed from Europe and Qatar, good speed with US hosts. Very easy to use from Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows (rsync, ftp, scp, sftp, ssh, WebDAV). Direct integration in Finder, just use “Connect to Server” and enter the hostname address with https. On Linux and FreeBSD 6.x sshfs works like a charm. Easy to install on FreeBSD using ports, just cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-sshfs and run make install clean.