simonb.com: blog > articles from Tuesday, 24 January 2006

I have Apache with SSL installed using Fink. Every time I try to upgrade to a new release via ‘fink update-all’ Fink gives me an error about conflicts with the installed DB library and the new one it wants to install. This is because Fink picks the wrong upgrade package - the non-SSL one rather than the SSL version which I am using. This is easy to fix - just ‘fink install apache-ssl...’ by hand. But I keep forgetting - so here it is so that Google can remind me next time.

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Bill Thompson of the BBC’s Go Digital blogged recently that Macs are just as vunerable as PCs to security issues. It generated quite some feedback. Well, he’s right. I just discovered a virus on our Macs. The virus we had was in MS Word documents - this is a MS Office feature taking advantage of Visual Basic for Applications rather than a Mac OS X issue. However, if you exchange Word documents (or any MS Office file on any platform) you really should be scanning before opening. We used to have Virex installed on our Macs but…

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Flip4Mac have released Windows Media components for QuickTime. This as MS announces the end of support for Windows Media Player on the Mac (an oxymoron if there ever was one). Given the plugin extensible architecture of QuickTime this is how it should have been done from the beginning.

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