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Controlling your data

Paul Westbrook | 15 March, 2007 17:08

Yesterday, one of the the Spanning Sync service had a configuration issue.  This caused a few errors during synchronization for users.  This makes me think that there is a problem with this solution for synchronizing your data.

Here is a diagram of how I think that Spanning Sync works:

Spanning Sync Diagram

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Small problem in Mac OS X 10.4.9

Paul Westbrook | 15 March, 2007 03:01

I just realized that our iMac was having a small problem with the the new version of Mac OS X.  10.4.9 now includes improved checking for damaged disk images.  All of the disk images that I had created so our kids could play their games, without using the CD, now are being reported as being corrupt.  (I doubt that they actually are all corrupt, unless the previous version of Disk Utility created corrupt images.)

Unfortunately, recreating the disk images from the original CDs does not solve the problem.  The error message still appears.

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Secure Mac OS X

Paul Westbrook | 15 March, 2007 01:26

This two part (1, 2) article has some great tips for securing Mac OS X.

[via TUAW]

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