Throw A Mouse

In order to access the Apple Time Capsule via Linux machine, here is what has to be done:

Step 1:

Make sure that you have smbfs and smbclient packages installed. In the popular Ubuntu distribution they are installed by default. In order to check you can use the terminal as follows:

sudo apt-get install smbfs
sudo apt-get install smbclient

Step 2:

Create a mount point:

cd /media
sudo mkdir capsule

Step 3:

Mount the drive:

sudo mount.cifs //10.0.1.1/"Capsule-Network-Name" /media/capsule -o pass=capsulepassword

The 10.0.1.1 address is the address which which the capsule identifies itself in the network. Respectively, Capsule-Network-Name is the name of the time machine in the network, capsulepassword is the password of the capsule.

Step 4:

You can now access the Time Capsule from Nautilus. If you want to write files into the Capsule you need to be identified as root. You ca open Nautilus as root by opening terminal and:

sudo nautilus

Enjoy!

Just found the perfect synchronizing solution!

Dropbox can syncronize your files between machines using different OS, it supports Windows, Mac and Linux! The design of the site is very pleasant, they provide web access, encypted connection, real time syncronization, public folder, sharing between users, and 2GB free accounts.

http://dropbox.com

Enjoy!

Invitation

As reported by engadget, Apple will announce new laptops on October 14.  Thats pretty cool, since speculations were rising more and more in the past weeks.

That arrives at the right time for me.  My current iMac is getting too slow for extensive use of Apple’s Aperture. And I want to try to use a new Macbook Pro as a desktop replacement. If this succeeds I will look for a Cinema Display, which should get an update by Apple too within the comming months and maybe already next week.

Stay tuned!