A belated happy new year to you all. :) First, and really the most important thing, is that I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you to set up two-factor authentication on your accounts. It seems to be every other week that we hear about some service being compromised, and the database of user accounts hacked. While steps can be taken to protect account passwords in many databases, often times its inadequate to protect people getting hacked, especially when they are often in the habit of sharing passwords across accounts. Two-factor authentication means that in addition to your password, you also use your phone to receive a text message that contains a code which you enter on the site, so that the site can verify that you are in possession of your phone. I don't know yet about the various authenticator apps, but text messages always work for me.
There is a good long list here of services that support two-factor authentication, with links to set it up; everything from Apple to Google to Microsoft: http://bit.ly/2falist I have yet to sort through a backlog of email. I will soon. If you're being held up, apologies. In other news, while I love Apple's AirPort base stations, they're holding me up with their PPPoE support. My Cisco 881W is now in a drawer pending future review, and a Draytek 2860 is now providing WAN connectivity. This is a router with two USB ports, and two WAN links--one (V)DSL, and one gigabit LAN. I can use one USB port for a 4G dongle to provide backup and the other for a thermometer or NAS. The DSL line connects to BT Infinity directly, without the need of the OpenReach modem. This is a great next-step router, because it supports current connectivity methods, leaves room for expansion through USB and Ethernet, and is very configurable. My Time Capsule remains as a fine wireless access point, in bridge mode. AudioQuake is being resumed. We are working on getting it running on current platforms. The first step is to port the bugger through eight years of technology progress. You can follow along with development at: http://github.com/matatk/agrip/ And for general info: http://www.agrip.org.uk/ It's not ready for use yet, obviously. We're both on Mac, so Mac comes first. Right now the first thing to do is sort out some crashing issues new to the latest OS X version, Mavericks. If you're interested in contributing or testing, use our new "agrip-project" Google Group. Right, that's everything for now. Cheers, and carry on. :) IAB, Me _______________________________________________ Me-mates mailing list [email protected] http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/me-mates
