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Pilfered Pallbearers: Aug 2, 2007

TraderStav posted:

Are there any programs or tweaks that I can use to make sure that a network drive is always connected? If it gets disconnected or for whatever reason isn't, to then connect it? I have my Plex server on the iMac and the files on my NAS and want to ensure that it's always there. I've had the drive disappear seemingly random without reboots or sleep/wake cycles being involved. Could be something with fast user switching to my wifes account but am doubtful of that.

Thanks!

Haven't personally tried it.

http://plumamazing.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=85

# ? Feb 24, 2014 06:11

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# ? May 20, 2024 02:48

PRADA SLUT: Mar 14, 2006; Inexperienced,
heartless,
but even so

.cbz reader, preferably that supports retina?

# ? Feb 24, 2014 13:16

evil_bunnY: Apr 2, 2003

Jesus christ the OSX SMB support is such garbage

# ? Feb 24, 2014 15:36

TraderStav: May 19, 2006; It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

JHVH-1 posted:

Probably something you could use controlplane to do one way or another http://www.controlplaneapp.com/

If it doesn't support it directly, it also allows you to use shell scripts.

Kingnothing posted:

Haven't personally tried it.

http://plumamazing.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=85

Thanks. I will check these both out!

# ? Feb 24, 2014 15:38

devilmouse: Mar 26, 2004; It's just like real life.

PRADA SLUT posted:

.cbz reader, preferably that supports retina?

http://dancingtortoise.com/simplecomic/

# ? Feb 24, 2014 15:39

kiwid: Sep 30, 2013

Is there any free software that converts a Mac Mail mbox file to a PST file?

# ? Feb 24, 2014 15:58

Housh: Jul 9, 2001

Boris Galerkin posted:

So a bug was found in Safari on both OS X and iOS over the weekend. I'm not a security person but from what I understand it's Pretty Bad. Something about SSL being compromised. iOS has been patched but OS X is still waiting. In the meantime people smarter than me suggest using Firefox or Chrome in lieu of Safari until the bug is resolved.

I think my iMac was compromised or something while reading about this on macrumors. Can't connect to internet using any apple software (safari, mail, app store, itunes) but everything else works. I patched my phone and my snow leopard macbook using firefox is fine. I'm kinda pissed and freaking out.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 21:38

DarkJC: Jul 6, 2010

Those symptoms have nothing to do with the vulnerability, and browsing a web page cannot trigger the vulnerability that was patched. Someone on your local network would have to set up a man-in-the-middle attack and would consequently be able to intercept SSL encrypted communications, it's not a virus that infects your computer.

It has nothing to do with your software not connecting to the internet. A potential solution to that would be restarting your computer.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 21:47

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Isn't the bug simply "You won't get notified if the site isn't really HTTPS/authenticated" or something like that?

# ? Feb 24, 2014 21:52

DarkJC: Jul 6, 2010

I think the issue is that it fails to verify the certificate signature being presented to it during key exchange.

edit: So basically the man-in-the-middle can say 'here use this key to encrypt your stuff' and OS X says 'okay, thanks' without verifying that it's the proper server giving it the key.

DarkJC fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Feb 24, 2014

# ? Feb 24, 2014 22:00

Housh: Jul 9, 2001

Yup. I'm a spaz and you are right. Reboot fixed it. I wonder what happened there.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 22:03

SeANMcBAY: Jun 28, 2006; Look on the bright side.

I noticed my late 2012 iMac runs very hot in Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp when playing games. What's the recommend programs to control iMac fans in Windows?

# ? Feb 24, 2014 23:40

Lexicon: Jul 29, 2003; I had a beer with Stephen Harper once and now I like him.

DarkJC posted:

I think the issue is that it fails to verify the certificate signature being presented to it during key exchange.

edit: So basically the man-in-the-middle can say 'here use this key to encrypt your stuff' and OS X says 'okay, thanks' without verifying that it's the proper server giving it the key.

Exactly right. So it could be a nefarious middleman, and from Safari's point of view, you're happily connected over SSL to your bank or whatever.

# ? Feb 24, 2014 23:53

GokieKS: Dec 15, 2012; Mostly Harmless.

evil_bunnY posted:

Jesus christ the OSX SMB support is such garbage

And NFS support is even worse (after they broke auto mounts in Mavericks)! And there's no built-in iSCSI initiator either!

Yeah, fun stuff.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 02:11

CygnusTM: Oct 11, 2002

Boris Galerkin posted:

So a bug was found in Safari on both OS X and iOS over the weekend. I'm not a security person but from what I understand it's Pretty Bad. Something about SSL being compromised. iOS has been patched but OS X is still waiting. In the meantime people smarter than me suggest using Firefox or Chrome in lieu of Safari until the bug is resolved.

Unfortunately, it's not just Safari. Any Apple app that can initiate a HTTPS connection is vulnerable. So, Mail, Calendar, etc. all borked. Basically, don't use your Mac on public wifi until this is fixed.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:24

Noxious: Oct 22, 2002; Allow me to give you free stuff, or I will stalk you and poison your family.

I'm trying to checkout an svn repo from my work server with OSX 10.9 and it's not working. Here is what I'm doing.

The repo is on the work intranet at

code:

https://ipaddress/svn/project/trunk

I set up a tunnel with ssh by doing this.

code:

ssh -N user@workdomain.com -L 443:ipaddress:443

I can then use my browser to hit the repo all day long but svn fails with ...

code:

cmd> svn up
Updating '.':
svn: E120171: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://localhost/svn/project/trunk'
svn: E120171: Error running context: An error occurred during SSL communication

It might be worth mentioning that I had to compile and install the latest version of Subversion in OSX, but I tested it with other public repositories using the https protocol and it seemed to work fine. It only seems to fail using the tunnel.

I also tried to use Xcode to check it out rather than the command line and it did ask me about an untrusted certificate but once I accepted that Xcode crashed/disappeared.

Also, I can set up a tunnel with putty on a windows virtual machine and use tortoise svn to check out and commit just fine.

Update: I can also connect with the exact same settings in a virtual linux environment running from the same machine. I am thinking it's something to do with the bad cert sent by the subversion server.

Noxious fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 25, 2014

# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:27

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

evil_bunnY posted:

Jesus christ the OSX SMB support is such garbage

I have two Macs running System 10.9 Mavericks on the same LAN and they cannot connect to each other in the sidebar "network neighbourhood" feature because that defaults to SMB. You have to do Command+K afp://blah.local to force it to connect over AFP then it will work.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:43

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

SeANMcBAY posted:

I noticed my late 2012 iMac runs very hot in Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp when playing games. What's the recommend programs to control iMac fans in Windows?

Try this one:

http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control

They have both Mac OS and Windows Boot Camp versions, and it's freeware and is actively (so far) developed, last revision was three weeks ago or so.

On the Mac side it requires at least Snow Leopard (10.6.x) and on the Windows side it works under XP/7/8.

I've already used it to keep the fans from going into overdrive on some Late 2009-2010 iMacs that got a new SSD.

Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Feb 25, 2014

# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:44

evil_bunnY: Apr 2, 2003

~Coxy posted:

I have two Macs running System 10.9 Mavericks on the same LAN and they cannot connect to each other in the sidebar "network neighbourhood" feature because that defaults to SMB. You have to do Command+K afp://blah.local to force it to connect over AFP then it will work.

That's precious.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 12:58

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

CygnusTM posted:

Unfortunately, it's not just Safari. Any Apple app that can initiate a HTTPS connection is vulnerable. So, Mail, Calendar, etc. all borked. Basically, don't use your Mac on public wifi until this is fixed.

Or use a VPN, or use Chrome or Firefox, or...

Does anonymous setup shop at the Starbucks in your area?

# ? Feb 25, 2014 14:40

tractor fanatic: Sep 9, 2005; Pillbug

In any event, the update has been released.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 19:45

phosdex: Dec 16, 2005

There is a 10.9.2 OS X update available now. I'm not seeing a fix for the recent problem in the notes?

# ? Feb 25, 2014 19:45

DarkJC: Jul 6, 2010

It fixes it, you can test for yourself at gotofail.com

# ? Feb 25, 2014 19:50

Ninja Rope: Oct 22, 2005; Wee.

phosdex posted:

There is a 10.9.2 OS X update available now. I'm not seeing a fix for the recent problem in the notes?

You have to click through to the security notes. It's there.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 19:52

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

phosdex posted:

There is a 10.9.2 OS X update available now. I'm not seeing a fix for the recent problem in the notes?

Combo update is here, for those who prefer them over the MAS.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 20:27

tropical: Aug 14, 2003; Ahh say whut?

I installed the 10.9.2 update on my early 2013 15" Macbook Pro and after rebooting I had to reconfigure all of my display settings including changing my wallpaper back to what it was pre-update. Weird. That's pretty trivial, but one bigger thing I'm noticing is that there is definitely now some sort of lag when using my external mouse that was not there pre-update. I can't tell but it seems like there might be inconsistent lag when typing on my external keyboard as well. I was using the computer all morning (for work) and something is definitely off now. Anybody else update and notice anything like this?

# ? Feb 25, 2014 20:30

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

No issue like that with my Magic Mouse or older Apple keyboard. Updated via the MAS, too.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 20:32

tropical: Aug 14, 2003; Ahh say whut?

I restarted again and that seems like it might've fixed it - I can't quite tell yet. Even if it is still off I'll probably be used to it by the end of the day anyway...

# ? Feb 25, 2014 20:39

jink: May 8, 2002; Drop it like it's Hot.; Taco Defender

Have confirmed the SSL fix is in 10.9.2

https://gotofail.com

# ? Feb 25, 2014 20:41

kiwid: Sep 30, 2013

What is the best window snap software? I've been looking at Cinch but was wondering if there is anything you guys recommend better?

edit: The closer it resembles Windows, the better. Also if it has the arrow key shortcuts.

# ? Feb 25, 2014 20:42