Recently I was poking around Mail.app, setting up my new machine. I like to keep redundant copies of everything, email being no exception. I have backups of all of my email dating back to 1998, for the most part. It has come in handy from time to time and I like it for reference reasons. It’s a small amount of actual data as far as space goes, and it’s easy to do.

Nick Buraglio - Nov 2, 2011 So, much of this has started to work better now that the service has been available for a while. I can now message a phone number via my ipad, and it pops up on my phone and ipad, however, when someone sends me and iMessage, I only see it on my iPhone for sure. I have yet to be able to ascertain what the criteria is for popping up on both my iPad and iPhone.

I had very high hopes for iMessage. With the release of iOS 5, one of the big new features was iMessage, the ability to do Blackberry messenger style messaging on an iOS device. I had really hoped that this would be something like wifisms or the DeskSMS app for Android. At the very least I was hoping for iChat integration with iMessage. This didn’t happen. Don’t get me wrong, iMessage is still really cool.

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I have recently enabled Duo Security for many of my personal services, and I can’t recommend them enough. Personal two factor authentication is very useful and really powerful. It works on my iPhone and I have yet to run into any real issues….except for one. I can’t use automation to scp or sftp anything anymore and keep my two factor auth working in a way I’m comfortable with. Enter ftps. FTP is a terrible, yet immensely useful protocol.

Timmy.Norris - Nov 4, 2011 Great tutorial on black hole routing, I learned a lot from it. Thanks. us vpn erwicker - Feb 5, 2012 Brilliant! Thanks so much. portable wireless router

It’s no secret or ground breaking area to do black hole routing. ISPs and NSPs have been doing it forever to allow for a very low cost, very scriptable and very effective way to wholesale block a layer3 address. However, it can seem like a bit of a black box to anyone who has never done it. I recently did some work spinning this up in a good sized network that it didn’t currently exist, and remembered how monumentally useful (and simple) it actually is.

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Google has introduced a very powerful set of python based command line (CLI) tools called GoogleCL. This post was made using GoogleCL from my Mac. I highly recommend checking it out if you like to automate or script stuff. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I’ve recently decided that even though I love the BSD style MacPorts system, it can be too clunky to maintain and doesn’t handle dependancies as well as I’d like (much like the actual BSD ports collection). So, in doing a little looking I found that Fink is still out of date, but Homebrew is very simple and also really elegant comparatively speaking. Since homebrew doesn’t wrk well with other packge systems installed, and I already