I’ve seen a few people post lists of their favourite/essential apps, so here’s mine 🙂 When I’m setting up a new Mac, or reinstalling macOS on my Mac mini or
Category: sysadmin
Backups, 2018 editionBackups, 2018 edition
It’s been a few years since I described my set up which included Windows machines, Western Digital MyBook drives, and Backblaze. Since then we’ve retired all the Windows machines, and
Email server on Mac MiniEmail server on Mac Mini
I set up postfix email server on my Mac mini some time ago but I recently wiped & reinstalled El Capitan (OS X 10.11.1) on that machine when I replaced
World Backup Day is coming!World Backup Day is coming!
March 31st (that’s this coming Saturday!) is World Backup Day – make sure you have your computers (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) backed up, and that they continue to backup automagically
Remove compromised Certificate Authority in OS XRemove compromised Certificate Authority in OS X
You may have heard that a Dutch Certificate Authority (CA) called DigiNotar has allegedly been hacked “which resulted in the fraudulent issuance of public key certificate requests for a number
Broken pluginBroken plugin
Apologies to anyone who’s tried to reach this website in the past few days – I just noticed that it wasn’t loading unless I was logged in. A quick rummage
Call me paranoidCall me paranoid
After listening to Martin Bailey‘s latest podcast (#293) and recent discussions with a couple of people, I thought I’d document my backup strategy/workflow. (I think I’ve done this before but
Back online againBack online again
I don’t know precisely what caused this blog to die, but a WordPress update I ran at the weekend which worked fine on the other blogs that I administer took
Backup, backup, backupBackup, backup, backup
Hopefully everyone who owns a computer (laptop or PC, Windows, Linux or Mac) is already backing up properly but if you’re not, now is the time to start! A lot
PhewPhew
I’m relieved to see this blog is still up – a couple of my domains need to be renewed this month, so this morning I decided to move a few