Dropbox Encryption - Install EncFS on OSX to encrypt-decrypt Dropbox content realtime
If you have been following the recent Dropbox news, you might have some serious concerns about privacy and security of your data. If, like me you do not "trust" anyone with your data, here is a quick guide to how you can get started with EncFS for realtime -on the fly- encryption of your dropbox contents.
wait... BUT..... what is EncFS??
Rsync to OSX with foreign letters in filenames - delete copy loop
So, you have a few files with foreign letters in filenames and you back them up using rsync. All is well unless you rsync from a linux machine to OSX machine. It seems OSX handles UTF-8 characters in a custom way - using 3 bytes.. hmm.. so:
Linux -rsync-> OSX
- First pass: rsync from linux to OSX and all files appear to be copied
- Second pass: rsync deletes the files on remote OSX server and copies them again
- Third pass: same as above
Rsync on OSX - Upgrade to version 3x
OK, OSX is a "good" operating system and I use it among win7 and centos BUT there are a number of things that annoy me from a geek perspective. One of them is outdated versions of various packages - in this case Rsync.
By defaut, OSX 10.6 ships with version 2.6.9 - which for most basic taks is "fine" but if you are rsyncing files with international characters in filename from a linux you need to use iconv option with rsync, more about that in this post.
Enable OSX Spotlight file searching with Apple AFP shares on NAS
Want to search files on your AFP shares on the NAS using Finder/Spotlight in OSX Snow Leo?
Mount the AFP share
Check if indexing is enabled on mounted volume
mdutil -s /Volumes/"volume name"
Enable Indexing if not enabled already
mdutil -i on /Volumes/"volume name"
Build index manually
mdimport -d 1 /Volumes/"volume name"
Fedora 14 - Enable Apple File Sharing for OSX clients
So, I had a spare NC10 Netbook which made for a perfect candidate to get Fedora 14 install and turned into a headless NAS + Torrent box. All perfect, but I wanted to share the files from Fedora with my MacBook. It seems there are loads of complete and complex tutorials out there, so here is my compact set of notes from my own install.
Install Netatalk
su yum install netatalk yum install avahi
Install AFPD avahi service
nano /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>Drupal development with OSX, VMWare Fusion and CentOS 5.3
CentOS powers my personal websites and since it is based on RedHat Enterprise Linux (which we use at work) it makes my life easier when jumping back and forth between servers as all the filepaths are same, repositories and packages are all consistent. All in perfect harmony as far as work and personal web server are concerned.
