Re: Web site availability

[Andrew Brown]

Many thanks for the solutions provided, I'm using Montastic, and of course 
there have been no problems since I set it running but I guess it will let me 
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Re: Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs

[Ashley Aitken]

There is an interesting article in TidBITS#1094/19-Sep-2011:  


It's titled "Apple ID Becomes Mac OS X and iCloud Glue" and discusses issues we 
have been discussing here on this list.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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Re: Security 101 for Macs

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 15:28, Nathan Sims
 wrote:
>
> I have a system where that has about 1GB of Time Machine backups on an 
> external drive. If I turn on File Vault, what does it do to the existing Time 
> Machine backups? Encrypt them also? Leave them in cleartext? Will the new 
> Time Machine backups be done encrypted?

I can't confirm this from experience, but my understanding is that the
existing and future backups won't be encrypted. When you attach a new
drive and you're give the option to use it for TimeMachine, you're
also given the option to encrypt the backups.

All this does is turn on FileVault encryption for the TimeMachine
drive / partition. You can do the same using the command line to
enable encryption on your existing backup drive.

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Re: Web site availability

[LuKreme]

On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:36, Jared Earle  wrote:

> Or here's how I do it:
> 
> http://blog.23x.net/528/an-apache-watchgoose.html

Oh yes, that's exactly how I do it too. Exactly.

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Re: Security 101 for Macs

[Nathan Sims]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:07 PM, David Schwartz wrote:

> With File Vault 2 enabled, the General tab of the Security & Privacy 
> preference pane's "Require password … after sleep or screen saver begins" 
> cannot be turned off, with the only options being how long before the 
> password kicks in. So user error is unlikely to allow an exploit should 
> someone run off with it. Even the recovery partition can't be booted without 
> the machine password.

Okay, one additional question about this...

I have a system where that has about 1GB of Time Machine backups on an external 
drive. If I turn on File Vault, what does it do to the existing Time Machine 
backups? Encrypt them also? Leave them in cleartext? Will the new Time Machine 
backups be done encrypted?


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Re: Web site availability

[Jared Earle]

Or here's how I do it:

http://blog.23x.net/528/an-apache-watchgoose.html

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, LuKreme  wrote:

> On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:37, Andrew Brown  wrote:
> > Is there a tool that I could run under X, or on an iPhone, to check the
> site every so often (hourly?) and to send me an email or whatever if it is
> unavailable ? Free would be good.
>
> A simple shell script could do this in a few lines, then just throw a
> launchctl agent around it.
>
> Something based around
>
> If (wget URL://of.the/site)
>  Then everything is good
> Else
>  Email m...@domain.tld "crap, the site is
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