OpenVPN, Snow Leopard, and 64-bit

Since my MAC adventure began early this year, I discovered through a friend (thanks Jon) a tool called TunnelBlick which is a nice little GUI that sits on top of OpenVPN which is what one of my clients uses as their VPN. Anyhow, Snow Leopard's 64-bit kernel doesn't play nicely with TunnelBlick unless you also download the latest Tun/Tap driver which is available here:

http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/download.xhtml

I downloaded and installed it and TunnelBlick is back running like a champ.

This also brings up a point that by default Snow Leopard does NOT start using the 64-bit kernel extensions. You can force it by holding down the 6 and 4 keys during boot, or download this cute little tool which lets you select your startup mode and forget it. You can still override it by holding down the 3 and 2 keys or 6 and 4 keys during boot.

http://www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/English/Programs/SMS/SMS.html

Have fun all.

MacBook Pro upgrades

I purchased a 15" 2.53 GHz Unibody MacBook Pro with a 320GB drive and 4GB of RAM back in January of 2009 and recently upgraded the drive to a 7200RPM 500GB Seagate Momentus. The process was much more disruptive than I had expected it would be and took me about 2 days. My next few posts will document the adventure.