The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I was just reading the FabBSD website.  They seem to be forking OpenBSD for use with controllers and other machinery related projects.  That means there are at least two forks of OpenBSD now, one fork of NetBSD, two of FreeBSD (plus some commerical variants and distros), and zero for DragonFly, MirBSD and MidnightBSD.  it's getting crowded. :)

At least BSD is getting popular.

I realized I can't put off updating mediawiki any longer at work.  I'm in the process now.  It's taking forever to install all the dependancies for the new version.  I'm going from like 1.9.3 to 1.12 or something like that.  Ugh I hate complex webapps.  

The newer portupgrade versions suck.  portversion doesn't report the version you have installed currently.  I hate that.  It was handy to check how out of date freebsd ports were and for comparison with mports.  It make look simple now, but it's not useful.  I don't get toning down command line tools.  Stupid people won't use them anyway.  

I still need to check the os x boxes for updates, although after last time i'm favoring leaving them unless there is a big patch.  I'd rather be there when I do it.  This remote stuff is for the birds. 

 I had a problem with a server at work recently.  I used to use a hint from the macosxhints site to reverse ssh into my home mac.  However, I can't do that anymore because my mac is behind NAT.  What I needed was a way to connect to the mac at work which was behind a firewall (but not nat).  I had another machine running FreeBSD with SSH open.  

Solution:

Connect to machine one

ssh -C -4 -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5900 remotehostyouwant  Connect to work mac: 
ssh -C -4 -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 macatwork