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Free Quicken 2006

Paul Westbrook | 10 September, 2005 14:23

Earlier this week, I received a package from Intuit that contained a free version of Quicken 2006.  I was intending on upgrading, but I hadn't gotten around to it.  They sent it to us, because we are a Quicken Bill Pay customers.

It looks like they are changing the communication for this, so they are requiring people to upgrade.  I am glad they they gave people the required software, as opposed to saying that your payments would stop working after a certain date.  It is not a hardship for Intuit, since I am paying a monthly fee for using Quicken Bill Pay.  In fact, they should send every new version of Quicken to these customers, even if isn't required.

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eclipse for Mac OS X

Paul Westbrook | 10 September, 2005 14:16

Apple has a good developer article on Eclipse for Mac OS X.  I downloaded it, and  the integration is pretty nice.  The Mac version is actually a Carbon app, that access the java plugins.  I wonder if they did it this way to make the app look more "Mac like" or if it was for performance.

Apple's XCode IDE will allow java development, but supporting a standard IDE is probably appealing to many developers.

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Securing Mac OS X Tiger

Paul Westbrook | 10 September, 2005 14:02

Slashdot has a post that links to a good document that talks about ways to secure Mac OS X Tiger.  I didn't realize that Apple enabled encryption of virtual memory swap files.  I am now looking into installing Tripwire, Radmind or HenWen on my laptop.

This document is definitely geared towards corporate users.  There are some things that I think are missing from this document.  It does go into describing creating ipfw rules, which will overwrite the UI settings.  But I think that it should go into the new settings that are in the UI.  For example, in 10.4, now the firewall can:

  • Block all UDP traffic
  • Enable firewall logging
  • Enable stealth mode

Here is a screen shot of the new options

Advanced Firewall Settings

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