North Star Labs

After graduation and my last day at work, I’ve taken a road trip to visit the Bennett’s in D.C. and was promptly chagrined while trying to show off Leopard’s screen sharing over OpenVPN.

Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to turn on Screen Sharing from an SSH session.

echo -n enabled > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd

Launchd should automatically start the Screen Sharing service when this file is modified.

More information is available at Apple Remote Desktop: Configuring remotely via command line (kickstart)

I’ve setup a public facing Git repository and gitweb interface to publish my patches to puppet and any other open source projects which may use Git in the future.

The locations are:

• Jeff’s Git Web
• http://northstarlabs.net/git/

If you’re a puppet developer, you’re able to track my repository easily with:

  git remote add mccune http://northstarlabs.net/git/puppet

I noticed that the embedded video I posted in my last post didn’t show up properly in my RSS feed reader, so this post is an attempt to get things right.

The goal here is an accessible, high quality embedded video that works properly on both this site, and through syndication.

First, the MPEG-4 AVC Video:

Second, the embedded youtube video:

Here’s hoping this works…

Edit: (2007-09-28 01:05 -0400) Added placeholder images for google reader, which will strip the flash object from the feed.