April 2012

  • iMovie 3 Updates, Anyone?

    Just setup the Lion Server Software Update Service.  Amazing how far back the update history goes.

  • The Internet Wild West

    (or, Why a firewall isn’t just a nice idea anymore)

    So my “Weekend Home Project” these past couple of days has been setting up an OS X Lion Server on a new Mac Mini. This came as a result of a desire to tinker somewhat (I sometimes feel nostalgic for my former life as an IT consultant), but also primarily its use as a much more capable home router than what my Time Capsule provides. The latter point was prompted by my switch to Teksavvy as my ISP and their offering of native IPv6 connectivity along with a pair of subnets for both IPv4 and IPv6.

    I originally plugged it in last Tuesday without giving too much thought to setting up a firewall on it… The only listening service was sshd, and I had already hardened that to work with only a single, non-root account and require public-key authentication for that one rather than a password and everything else living quietly on private IPs behind NAT. So, for the first few days it was easier just to keep the firewall off until I actually had time to tweak it appropriately.

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