Michael Wheeler

Bonjour (and wikipedia mirror)

Opps, I missed a post on Sunday, so this ones a double (for tomorrow)

First off, which is the reason I missed posting on Sunday, is that I am mirroing wikipedia so I can use it as school without an internet connection. It’s a simple, but length process and if you follow this ( guide it’s easy. I’ve been processing pages from Friday and I’m only just half-way through. The compressed download is 3.7gb and the decompressed version is 16gb.

The second thing I would like to touch on is Bonjour which is brilliant networking system made by Apple, which simplifys networking. I’ve been using Leopard and Tiger for more than a year now, and this is the first time I saw it in action. I had a ubuntu box up, and I enabled vnc access. I started searching for some alternatives to Chicken of VNC os OS X since it was getting old, and tried a few, and then I noticed that the ubuntu box was in my finder window. I clicked on it and noticed that it screen sharing button enabled. It’s preformed its job so well and seemless. It’s kinda a mash up of Hamachi and local networking.