I’m trying to sync my “useful software” directory on my desktop with my fileserver, and as there’s so much on there, doing it via NFS and drag’n’drop is a bit hit and miss, so I thought I’d try rsync’ing it.

When I tried using SSH as the transport I was getting strange “Corrupted MAC on input” errors, which nobody seems to know the cause of, its hinted at iffy hardware such as consumer-grade switches. Its nothing to do with MAC addresses, but actually SSH’s checksumming system. I thought it may be due to the VirtualBox bridging setup, so disabled br0 and went with plain old eth0, but that didn’t fix it.

Its been a while since my last post, so thought I’d put a few bits together.

I’ve watched Batman 2: The Dark Knight, which was OK, very dark, but overly long at 2.5+ hours. Anyone who has watched it will know what I mean when I say it should have finished at that point about half an hour earlier, before going off on the tangent.

I thought Iron Man was actually better, it was shorter that’s for sure; about a guy who creates an endoskeleton to escape capture, and goes on to try to save the world with it.

Sun have updated xVM to v2.0, so I thought I’d have another crack at it – this time on my CentOS 5.2 box. I got dynamic bridging setup so that its more like VMWare – i.e. the physical eth0 is bridged to br0, and tap interface is created when you start a guest and removed when you stop the guest. You can access the LAN and internet. The setup is something like the following…..

I’ve wasted most of today trying to get my Epson RX425 scanner to work as a non-root user on CentOS 5.2

It worked fine before, so I think a kernel upgrade has broken udev, as I ended up having to edit /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default-perms to allow less strict permissions on scanners than root-only.

It seems that doing it the proper way via /etc/udev/rules.d/60-iscan.rules no longer works – in fact you can put anything you like in the udev rules files and bugger all seems to change even after a reboot!

I’ve just plugged my firewire camcorder into my CentOS 5.2 box and it seems they’ve backported the broken raw1394 drivers that Fedora has into the kernel. Hopefully its fixed in Fedora10, or I’ll be borrowing Mum’s Ubuntu 8.04 laptop to try that – I might try my Mac Mini actually….

I watched The Mummy 3, which was about as good as the other movies, bit of a shame they replaced Evelin and made everyone older – I assume as they’re going to make the next sequel (about Aztecs) the son’s story more than the parents. I wonder what happened to the Scorpion King franchise…..