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  • upgrading my Macs to Yosemite …

    Lessons learned from Yosemite upgrades:

    • back up your Pictures, Documents, and Downloads directories (just below $HOME) yourself, before starting the Yosemite upgrade!

    All my Macs got their Xcode packages and their Fink installation updated beforehand, as apparently that helps preserving a properly functioning Fink installation. The first “fink selfupdate” on an upgraded OS X Yosemite machine will tell you, you should “fink reinstall fink” next, and that’s what you will do, but then you procede again with “fink selfupdate” and “fink update-all”, and everthing will be fine.

    So first there were my “Mac mini”-s:

    • the 1st one of them went through w/o moaning at all, at least none, that I noticed
    • one the 2nd one (“Alternate Edition”) I noticed a complaint about a lack of space on some “core volume”, but apparently Apple had foreseen that already and after another restart that seems to run through rather well.

    Then there was my old MacBook Pro (with the 17″ screen). No trouble at all.

    In the end there was my Summer 2014 lovely MacBook Air. No trouble at all.

    Issues to get clarified:

    • Q: will my Samsung MFP still scan well and w/o trouble (i.e. more involvement on my side) in cooperation with my “Alternate Edition” Mac mini? A: of course Samsung offers a new (?) “Samsung Printer Installer” – YES, that’s all fine

    My first Yosemite impressions:

    • looks like Yosemite is a little more economical regarding GUI resources: simpler ways of displaying GUI elements – certainly saves time and core memory
    • during the installation standard directories like $HOME/Pictures got cleared out radically w/o leaving back-ups
    • I am using 16 different “virtual desktops” – and Yosemite seems to confuse their positions and numbers
    • with Yosemite you can still connect to network services offered by a “server” (running Yosemite), even if the screen is locked, i.e. you can ssh into such a server w/o extra configuration, and also you can ssh into a properly set up VM running on such a server – I had started a trouble case for 10.9, which “never” got solved.

  • Joni Mitchell – interviews

  • with the old Skype on my MacBook Air I was inaudible, after the update to Skype 7.1 everything is fine

    With the old Skype on my MacBook Air I was inaudible, and I had no idea why and how to change it, I guess, it was flawed somehow. Now with Skype 7.1 it’s just fine. I have no idea, why after all these years this piece of software is still not stable. Or did Apple change something regarding accessibility of the microphone? I am still running Mac OS X 10.9.5. I would gladly upgrade to 10.10, but I fear the trouble with Fink a little.

  • “Google Fit” wants to be the central store of my fitness data

  • why does www.obohu.cz/bible display the Tetragrammaton in the title areas in web browsers? THEY CHANGED THAT

    I sent an e-mail note to the people running www.obohu.cz/bible, asking:

    Why do you display the Tetragrammaton (in Hebrew letters) in the title areas in web browsers?
    You do know, that for … religious Jews that is a rather bad
    habit, don’t you? It makes them rather avoid your library, and that should not be necessary, don’t you agree?

     

    I would like to hear your opinion on this.

    Libor Divis from Praha replied:

    … O Bohu – in Czech it means “About God” …

     

     

    Orthodox religious Jews might not be satisfied with Tetragrammaton (replacing THE TETRAGRAMMATON in Hebrew letters), the Catholics are not satisfied with Jehovah, Jehovah’s Witnesses are not satisfied with (replacing THE TETRAGRAMMATON in Latin letters), and almost all other “Christians” are satisfied with nothing – except meaningless names like e.g. GOTT, HERR, GOD, LORD, HOSPODIN, …

     

     

    I think, that It is right to obey God rather than men. (“New Testament”, Acts 5:29)

     

     

    And what God said?

     

     

    Exod 3:15 : And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah ((replacing THE TETRAGRAMMATON in Hebrew letters)), the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.

    I asked for permission to blog our communication, and here is, what he answered:

    no problem regarding your blog …

     

     

    Gal 1:10 : For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.

     

     

    Yes, I think I know, what I’m doing.

    I assume, he is simply a misguided, fundamentalist warrior. That’s sad.

  • Synology NAS ssh access – all of a sudden one of the computers on my LAN wasn’t able to log in again

    As I found out after quite some investigating and speculating, I ran into the NAS’s “auto block” capability. I had no idea I had logged into it a couple of times unsuccessfully, but that must have been it. As I was able to redisplay, I had tried to log in a couple of times and always interrupted that, and apparently that got counted as “unsuccessful log in attempts”, which led to “blocking for ever”. After cleaning that NAS’s block list, everything was fine again.

    Then I looked into my main NAS’s block list, and right now there are 1280 IP addresses on it. I would love to export that list and sort it a little and do a few reverse look-ups, in order to relate them to “countries of origin” of these attacks. But the DSM does not support exporting the block list. May I suggest doing that? I will create a separate article resp. tweet with a proper title, suggesting to support the export of the block list.

  • the Synology DSM / NAS “auto block” feature, its “block list”, and the missing “export” capability – pls add it soon!

    • Today I looked into my NAS’s block list, and it had 1280 entries.
    • The “DSM” does not allow me to export that list.
    • So I am not able to run evaluations on that list,
    • I can not apply “business / data intelligence” on that list,
    • and I am also not able to relate the attackers’ IP addresses to their countries of origin.
    • A report detailing countries and their frequencies of attacks would be impressive, wouldn’t it?
    • May I suggest, that Synology should add that capability soon?

  • Synology NAS ssh access – “hardware accelerated ciphers”

    In the Control Panel within the area “Terminal & SNMP” there is now a checkbox labeled “Only use hardware accelerated ciphers“. But only my DS115j has this checkbox, my DS112+ and my DS213+ don’t have it. I have no idea, for how long this difference has been effective. Maybe from when I started using the DS115j – it’s the most recently released product of all of them.

  • Synology DSM desktop: removed everything unnecessary today

    What is left?

    • Package Center (it would show the number of packages to be updated)
    • Control Panel (it would show necessary DSM updates, I think)
    • Widgets: Recent Logs, System Health, Resource Monitor

    I can reach more Desktop item through the “Main Menu” AKA “Start button” on the top left.

  • Synology DSM update settings: no, I must not be forced to download updates automatically




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