Just a tip since I was stupid enough not to think of of it earlier. I had port 22 open in my home firewall so I could use SSH to reach my home computer if I needed something from it, or to start stuff. My logs showed it was getting attacked on a consistent basis, but the attempts were pretty feeble and hadn't broke though.

Tip, don't use the default port for SSH. I can just about smack myself for not thinking of that when I set it up.

I noticed that happening on my system, too. For a while I had to put a rule on my firewall to restrict incoming port 22 to known networks. I haven't noticed it happening much recently. There's been one attempt in the past month.

Choosing a random port seems to have ended attacks, but it hasn't been very long yet.

This might be mindnumbingly obvious, but I don't use this sort of ftp client. WinSCP3 uses some sort of ssh, correct? And can it be told to NOT do this? (Server doesn't play nice with sftp/ssh stuff.)

edit: OK, it looks like it is an ssh dooverdingy. So it won't play nice.

Is 512MB enough memory on a Intel based Mac running OSX? The machine will be used to test browser compatibility of a javascript-heavy site and (possibly) run automated testing software.

Depends on how much the automated software sucks up memory, of course. A good rule of thumb is buy what you can afford, but non-Apple vendors will give you a better price for extra ram.

I'm told OSX starts using excess memory to cache hard drive data to improve performance, so the more you have...

I've noted a lot of people recommending 1gb, mainly because you never know when you're going to need the extra, so grab what you can in advance.

Mine ran 512 MB for about a week or so. It was speedy.

Windows tips I ran across, #00000002

Tired to having random errors ask you to report back to Microsoft?

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Here's the steps to turn that off.

that's useful!

Here's the steps to turn that off.

Marked. Daniel, you rock like a thing made out of a big hunk of stone.