On the weekend Emily and I decided that we needed to do more outdoorsy stuff, so we went and found a nice little walk on Mt. Pirongia, just out of Hamilton. We did the “Mangakara Nature Walk“, which is a loop through some native bush and crosses the Mangakara stream. It took us about an hour which included a stop of about twenty minutes for a picnic by the stream - how quaint. The walk itself was very easy and the track was well-formed the entire way. The scenery was stunning - apparently that part of the forest is pretty much pristine native bush as it has never been cleared.
The plan is to make our way through the various walks and then move on to something a little more challenging. Eventually I’d like to take Emily on the Tongariro Northern Crossing which was part of a three-day hike I did when I was in high-school.
Photos on flickr as I can’t seem to get this flickr plugin working 
October 29th, 2007
Leopard now comes with a built-in SSH agent. The really nice thing about it is that it integrates with your user’s Keychain. So, the first time you try to unlock your SSH key a dialog will appear asking you for its password along with an option to save that password in your Keychain.
On Tiger I was using SSHKeychain to achieve this, but it had a nasty bug where it would randomly start to consume 100% of a CPU. This chewed through my Macbook Pro’s battery, which was a pain. If you’ve been using a third party SSH agent and want to switch to the built-in agent, make sure to check that you’re not manually setting the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable, which is something I had to do to get SSHKeychain working.
If launch-services is managing your SSH agent, it should look something like:
kenshin:~ scottr$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/launch-fTiPvL/Listeners
Otherwise, check your various profile settings, and check to make sure your third party agent isn’t set as a launch item. You’ll have to log out for this to take effect. Once launch-services is managing your SSH_AUTH_SOCK, logging into OS X will unlock your keychain and allow the ssh-agent to unlock your SSH keys without having to enter another password.
October 28th, 2007
I installed Leopard last night and as I was browsing my local network I noticed something kinda funny… apparently this is what a Windows PC looks like:
October 27th, 2007
An updated version of my Radiotap decoder for C is available. It fixes several bugs, cleans up the interface and most importantly now implements correct byte-swapping on big-endian hosts.
Get radiotap-0.2.tar.gz.
October 24th, 2007