Mac OS X File Sharing

Open NetInfo Manager and authenticate.

Create a new subdirectory in /config/SharePoints/ (click on config, then on SharePoints, then select Directory -> New Subdirectory).

Set the name value to be what you’d like the share to be called (double-click on the Value column next to name).

Add a new property (Directory -> New Properyt) and name it directory_path.

Add a new value for directory_path. The value needs to be the path of the folder or volume (for example, /Users/username/Pictures).

name -NetInfo name
directory_path -Path to directory
afp_use_parent_owner -Boolean: Use owner of parent?
afp_use_parent_privs -Boolean: Use privileges of parent?
afp_shared -Boolean: Share this item?
afp_name -Name visble to clients

Save your changes in NetInfo.

In the Finder, set the privileges on the folder or volume you’ll be sharing. Do Show Info, then Privileges, and pick what you like — Drop Box, Read Only, etc.

Stop and restart the AFP Server from the Sharing preferences panel.

Connect from a client and they will see the new share.

I’m a little grouchy

I’ve got a sore back and I can’t walk properly and it hurts šŸ™
So needless to say the person to my right in the office insisting on having a conversation on speakerphone very loudly in an ‘I’m very important listen to my conversation’ kind of way is doing my nut in.

Again and again

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I do. I can’t help it. Sometimes it gets me in trouble.
It didn’t tonight but I still wore it.
Some things in life I think you just have to do.

Can I change my life for any price?
Oh Johnny won’t you listen to me?
I just want you to be mine
I don’t want this world to shine
I don’t want this bridge to burn
Oh Johnny do you miss me?
I just want to be free

Scary Wide Web

Well actually scary wide world. The web seems positively tame by comparison to this story about “new girl“. Poor Joey. It could have all been much worse.
To think I stopped putting personal stuff on my blog because I was concerned about privacy.

six pints of lager

Allegedly that’s all it takes to get some straight men into bed.
Sometime I wonder if the same is true of gay men. Six pints and they go straight. Okay maybe not quite so cut and dried as straight or gay. You know where I am going with this I don’t need to lead you down the route. I’m feeling quite guilty about a comment I made to a friend before I came home to the UK from Sydney. It involved the usual bad taste of likening women to fish. I’m starting to see outside my conditioning of soho bars and bitchy queens. People are people and we like them for who they are.

I needed six pints of lager to recover from the topsy turvy day I had. All was going well. The sun was shining. My boss is happy with me. My colleagues all seemed happyish in the light of nasty shenanigans at work.

I arrived back in the office a few hours later to mayhem.

So more beers and a bad game of pool later and I was heading off to the brewers (yes again).

I had intended an early night tonight to make up for the excesses of the weekend. Ha. When you have friends in other time zones that never quite happens does it. Also when you have friends who may need another six pints of lager tomorrow.

futureforests and treesforlondon

My flight to Sydney and back via Kuala Lumpur was an estimated 34368 Km and produced 3.78 tonnes of CO2. According to futureforests.com I need to plant 5 trees to make my flight CarbonNeutral or supply 5 energy saving lightbulbs to a small community in the developing world. So that’s an additional ?42.50 to think about before I buy my next trip over. I think to be fair they should just add another tax.
I’ve gone for the trees option as I’ve already been sponsoring trees with treesforlondon.co.uk

Where you an April Fool?

The Guardian’s Onlineblog.com has a round up of some of the better April Fool pranks played on the internet.

Battle to ‘nail Section 28’ starts in the House of Lords

The House of Lords is holding its first debate on the repeal of Section 28 in England and Wales on Thursday, 3 April. Stonewall expect this debate to provide the first indication of the level of opposition to the repeal of this hateful clause in the House of Lords.

Stonewall still need as many people as possible to help them in their campaign to “” by signing the petition against Section 28, which they are going to present to the three main political party leaders.

The next stage of debate in the House of Lords will come around Easter time when repeal will be discussed more closely by the committee considering the Local Government Bill.

Allegedly

David Wells the astrologer in Metro says ‘Being single and an Aquarian is hard to distinguish from being in a relationship – you both love freedom. Try explaining that to a significant other.’
Okay David you find me the significant other and I’ll let them know šŸ˜‰