Normally, one would enable logging on each security policy. If you have hundreds of policies, and you want/need logging for troubleshooting, it takes a while (and some serious) effort to enable this for all policies.
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Adobe Creative Suite 2 For Free
Looks like Adobe is giving away the (old) Creative Suite 2 for both Windows and Mac. The CS2 download page contains direct links to all the CS2 products (individual products and the entire Creative Suite 2 installer) AND their license keys.
| Product | License Key |
|---|---|
| Photoshop CS2 [Mac] | 1045-0410-5403-3188-5429-0639 |
| Photoshop CS2 [Win] | 1045-1412-5685-1654-6343-1431 |
So if you would like to experiment with Photoshop (legally), but don't want to pay a premium price, this is one way of doing it.
There are some caveats you need to consider:
- The system requirements; The CS2 suite for the Mac doesn't run the Intel CPU, so you need a PowerPC based Mac, OR you need Rosetta. And the latter is no longer available for OSX (Mountain) Lion. I do not know if CS2 will run on Windows Vista, 7 or 8. But you can always run the software in a virtual machine.
- CS2 has a limited Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) converter. Which means that it won't be able to open RAW files from newer camera's. As a workaround you can first convert your RAW files with the Adobe DNG Converter [Windows | Mac], and open those files with Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Flickr Pro Account for Free...
for 3 months.
During the holiday season of 2012, Flickr offers a free 3 months Pro account. If you should already have a pro account, you get an additional 3 months for free. During these three months you get all the perks a regular Pro accounts has. Meaning unlimited uploads, statistics etc..
Ever since I switched from Flickr to SmugMug last year I let my Flickr Pro account expire, and it reverted to the limited free account. Yesterday I reinstated my Pro status again (for the 3 months). I don't think that I'll be going back to Flickr Pro. When the 3 month offer expires I'll default to the free account. SmugMug offers me much more. Things like dynamic photo albums (bases on keywords / tags), custom domain, layout, etc.. These are all features that Flickr lacks, and that I grew accustomed to.
So why upload a bunch of photos just for these three months? All for the cause of some extra free exposure I guess.
OS X Wireless Connection Problems Solved (??)
Ever since the upgrade to Apple
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) on my MacBook (v5.1) I encountered wireless
problems every now and then. These 'experiences' are documented in two
different blog posts here and here.
At
the time I was also running an 'old' version of Little Snitch (v2.x).
After installing v3.0.1 my problems seemed to have solved... Seemed,
until I upgraded Little Snitch to v3.0.2.
MacBook Wireless Borked Again, Still, etc.
A while back I had regular issues with the wireless adapter on my MacBook after I had upgraded to OSX Mountain Lion, but after the removal of Little Snitch (I still ran the beta version) it seemed that times were a changing... Seemed that is.
This morning I was fiddling about with my photo website, and needed to see the results in several different browsers. One of them being Google Chrome.
Trying to launch the Chrome app, it crashed immediately. Reopening didn't help. So I tried to download a newer version, since I hadn't updated mine since the upgrade to Mountain Lion. The result; It still crashed. Even after removing all Chrome (and Google) references on the disk, it still crashed.
So, it became time to consult the book of knowledge, and see what the Internets had to say about my little ordeal.
Ziggo Internet, Juniper Firewalls and DHCP
At the house I have currently two ISP delivering broadband. Well, broadband isn't the correct word, since the the one of them is only a mere 256kbps (I think). The other is a 'whopping' 20Mbps.
The 20Mb connection is provided by XS4ALL, and the 256kbps is for free (if you have a phone subscription with Ziggo). The 256kbp is the minimum they provide to transport the phone calls, but if you're a masochist you can also browse the internet over that connection.
So, two ISP @ home. Combine that with a Juniper SRX firewall, and a dual ISP setup is born. The theory of that setup is that I connect both ISP's to the firewall, and use the 20Mb line as a default internet connection, but when that one dies, I automatically get switched to the backup line (256kbps).
Unable To Turn On Wireless In OS X Mountain Lion
Last night I was minding my own business on the couch, when the wireless connection on my MacBook (UniBody) decided to call it a day. According to the symptoms (no bars visible in the WiFi icon in the menu bar, no visible wireless networks in the vicinity), the WiFi adapter was turned off. Turning the WiFi back on was not possible though.
Reset 'Open With' Dialog in Finder
After the upgrade of several programs I found that these programs had multiple entries in the 'Open With' dialog in OS X Finder. The following command (executed in the Terminal app) rebuilds the LaunchService database, and removes the duplicate entries.
Note that the following command is 1 (one) line of code, that you need to copy & past in the terminal window.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
As far as I can tell, it works on OS X Mountain Lion and every earlier version (at least till 10.6).
Mozilla's Firefox Invalid, Yet Valid Certificate
In my line of work I get to work with a lot of security devices which run self-signed certificates. Those certificates are most of the time generated when the device / appliance is installed, or configured for the very first time. When you connect to one of those devices with a web browser, you tend to see the warnings displayed by the browser that the connection is not to be trusted.
;)
In Firefox, you can add an exception in the browser. When you've done that, the next time you go to the website, the browsers treats the website as trusted.
Courier IMAPd and Mail.app warnings
After installing an ISPConfig deployment, everything seemed to work properly, but every now-and-then I got this weird error that there was something wrong with the mail server configuration. The Apple Mail.app showed a exclamation mark with the following message:
The server returned the error: The attempt to read data from the server server.domain.ext failed.
Some research showed that the Apple mail clients tend to open several connections for IMAP, and the default setting of the Courier IMAPd server is to allow (only) 4 connections from the same IP address.
Modifying the Courier config file (/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd) and allowing e.g. 20 connections from 1 IP address solved this problem.
<ORIGINAL CONFIG>
##NAME: MAXPERIP:0
#
# Maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address
MAXPERIP=4
<MODIFIED CONFIG>
##NAME: MAXPERIP:0
#
# Maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address
MAXPERIP=20
If your company / household holds several imap mail clients you may need to increase the counter even more (65536 is the maximum amount of connections for ANY IP address).
If you have SSL enabled on the Courier IMAPd server you also need to add the MAXPERIP variable to the imap-ssl config file (/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd-ssl).
Finally, you need to restart the Courier IMAPd services (/etc/init.d/courier-imap restart)