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Jaguar's standard command-line Telnet client is Kerberized! I was having trouble connecting to the U of I's registration server from Samson, so I wondered if the server was down and tried to connect directly, expecting a message telling me that my connection was insecure. Instead I got “[ Kerberos V5 accepts you as ``njriley\@UIUC,EDU'' ]“. What a pleasant surprise! I didn't see this documented anywhere. I hope this means it'll be easier to get SSH compiled with GSSAPI support than it was in 10.1.

5:44 PM | Radio
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A few amusing things from MacFixIt this morning…

As on Friday, the top story is subscription-only. The teaser for this story continues to show a poor command of English vocabulary:

Our Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) Special Report, which consists of extensive troubleshooting insight and commentary from Macintosh industry figureheads including Microsoft and Tenon Intersystems, is available for Pro subscribers here.

Figurehead \Fig"ure*head`\, n.
   2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing
      to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or
      duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.

Then there's the person who is upset that Apple deleted his time zone in Jaguar:

Our Time zone has been removed. This wouldn't be a problem because we can piggy back off another time zone. Unfortunately this time zone observes daylight savings and we dont. A checkbox for ignoring daylight savings would be great.

12:04 PM | Radio
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This week's MWJ includes a reference to Julio Ojeda-Zapata's Jaguar Journal. It's a mini-Weblog covering the Pioneer Press technology writer's exploits with Jaguar. Unlike most such journals I've read, which often do more to demonstrate the writer's ignorance and snap judgments than anything else, this one is filled with useful information, plentiful links, and reader responses.

The material on Bluetooth was most interesting—while Jaguar is Apple's second effort in Bluetooth support, the phones' software still appears stuck firmly at 1.0. Price aside, I won't be getting a Bluetooth-capable phone any time soon.

The only seeming inaccuracy I noted was a claim that Jaguar's built-in Internet connection sharing doesn't support sharing modem connections. I had no problem doing just that last week in New Hampshire, so I emailed the author, and was astonished to receive two replies within a few minutes. Ojeda-Zapata was able to get it working: you can read my email on the subject in the ninth installment of “Jaguar Journal”.

12:39 AM | Radio
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This page on Jaguar and gimp-print explains how to use the suite of gimp-print inkjet and PCL printer drivers with Jaguar and CUPS. I didn't know you could add a printer via URI directly from Print Center; I had been using the CUPS Web administration interface instead.

11:00 PM | Radio
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F-Script Anywhere 1.1.4 released, including Jaguar compatibility and a few cosmetic changes.

An ICeCoffEE release will be my next priority; it's been a long time and I've got a lot of unreleased code that is in good shape. I'm glad to see that my Terminal.app patching code degrades cleanly on Jaguar and doesn't hamper the rewritten Terminal's function. It should be easy to put back the Services menu in Terminal. From a few minutes with class-dump yesterday, the buffer storage format of the new Terminal doesn't look any better than the old, so I'm not sure how hard it will be to implement URL launching inside Terminal 1.3. I never publicly released the old one because it crashed so much, but I”m missing being able to Command-click URLs in IRC sessions.

Medical school classes start Tuesday; I'm really looking forward to them, although they'll be a challenge to balance with my research. This semester I'm taking medical genetics and histology. The latter is taught primarily on computers; my parents were of two minds when I mentioned this to them. “What do you mean, you don't use microscopes?” “Well, I guess they gave us some pretty lousy microscopes to use…”

In the aftermath of .mac, I've registered rileys.us at PairNIC for my parents to use for email. It'll be a few weeks before PairNIC is upgraded to a version which provides DNS service. For mail service, I have all the infrastructure in place already, aside from configuring Postfix for the new domain. We bought a UPS to use on the mailserver as they've been having a lot of power outages recently.

9:51 PM | Radio
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