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Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2015 8:57:55 am PDT #24399 of 25496
Ann, that's a ferret.

The button you use to close apps. Hold them down together until the screen goes dark or, if you want to be particularly sure, until the Apple logo appears on the screen.


Toddson - Mar 16, 2015 9:03:45 am PDT #24400 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Thanks! I'll give it a try (I SAID this is the only Apple device I've ever used).


Toddson - Mar 16, 2015 9:07:39 am PDT #24401 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

it worked! Thank you!


Tom Scola - Mar 16, 2015 2:38:44 pm PDT #24402 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Relevant to only Jessica: Cablevision to offer HBO Now to its Internet subscribers.


Jessica - Mar 16, 2015 3:23:05 pm PDT #24403 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I literally *just* heard about that on my commute home. It is most excellent news unless you happen to be on a TWC block without an Apple TV.

(I honestly haven't decided yet if I'm going to pay for it or just keep trading with my parents - they have my Netflix login and I have their HBOGo. So it's not *exactly* stealing...)


Liese S. - Mar 16, 2015 4:07:03 pm PDT #24404 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ok. So.

I bought the Drobo that I should have bought back when Drew first recommended it. It's slick. I love it. All the basic stuff is up and running smoothly, including the mac side of automated backup with time machine in its own little shares.

Now I want to automate the pc side of backup, so I am installing Crashplan on the NAS as a headless computer as per these directions: [link]

It is at this point that I need to confess that I am not enough of a geek. All the terminal stuff is getting past me. I have successfully installed dropbear for the ssh. I have installed all the dependencies. I have installed Crashplan on the NAS and on the client computers. I have modified the ui.properties, and the NAS is listening on the appropriate ports.

But I am stuck at the port forwarding. I can't figure out how to do this bit:

ssh -L 4200:localhost:4243 @192.0.2.2

It doesn't find -L. Is it because I'm using dropbear? Do I need to use openSSH? I feel like this is probably a simple thing and I just am a novice at ssh stuff.


Juliebird - Mar 16, 2015 4:09:39 pm PDT #24405 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Is it a bad sign when my phone starts telling me that my charging cable that plugs into the wall is not a supported device? I was rather hoping to keep the old phone for just music when I upgraded.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 16, 2015 8:42:13 pm PDT #24406 of 25496
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That's what happened to me Julie. I bough a new cable, but I have ended up sending the phone into Apple.


Jon B. - Mar 17, 2015 3:44:55 am PDT #24407 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Liese - It looks like -L is a flag for openSSH. I don't know if it's available in other implementations of SSH. I'd suggest one of two solutions: (1) install openSSH, or (2) use the PuTTY "option B".


Liese S. - Mar 17, 2015 9:16:25 am PDT #24408 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Great, Jon, thanks. I can install openSSH, which is probably what I should have gone with in the first place.