Connecting External Drive

I have an old 1TB harddrive that’s been sitting around awhile. Not sure what’s on it…. connecting it via a USB closure I have to see if there’s anything worth salvaging, or else it’ll be reformatted and possibly donated to my parents to use as backup/storage.


Appears to be an old storage drive for photos and video. Pretty sure this is from before I set up my NAS here at home. Will verify and reformat.


Erased! Now I can get this thing off my worktable 🙂

Homebrew (and VPN)

http://brew.sh/. It’s great.
Installed version is 0.9.5


More with VPN…

brew install Caskroom/cask/tuntap
brew install openvpn

Attempting to use the openvpn command will result in ‘command not found’. brew doctor reveals that I need to update my PATH.

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
. ~/.bash_profile

Now I can use the openvpn command. To run properly will require sudo.

Tunnelblick

Install Tunnelblick.

install-tunnelblick

Follow basic install procedure, nothing special.

Copy over VPN configuration files to /etc/openvpn/keys. In Finder, double-click on the .ovpn to install configuration. Connect.

[currently troubleshooting a “successful” connection that blocks internet access]