For those of you that have Ubuntu systems, the apt-get system will be invaluable to get updates for security and general packages. There are a few things to keep up with on the apt-get packages.
The apt-get program on your system is downloading updated information from mirrors around the world, and those updates need to be verified at some point – enter the security keys… These security keys, without going into the entire cryptographic detail, have a public and a private portion. The public portion is distributed to the public in order to verify that the updates you’re getting are indeed from an official Ubuntu source (or Debian, Slackware, etc). These keys have expiration dates and if you just hit one – no worries, here’s the fix:
gpg –keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net –recv-keys 40976EAF437D05B5
gpg –export –armor 437D05B5 | sudo apt-key add -
That’s the quick fix – we’d love to explain the details behind the whole apt-get system – just let us know at our homepage: Northwest Sysadmin
One feature we can use in the upcoming Snow Leopard: the Services menu. Of the few features announced from Apple has been the overhaul of the services menu…
As it stands now, the menu is pretty useless – here’s a shot of my menu:
The greyed-out options are useless in this application, Snow Leopard will supposedly take care of those by hiding them when not available. We’re hoping another option is to customize the menu according to our needs – seriously, how many times are we going to need to open something in our recipe collection program? How about adding new items? As reported Snow Leopard should have the full complement of features for Applescript or Automator additions, reorganizing, etc. We’re looking forward to the changes!
For those of you on Firefox (recommended), they have an important update with some stability fixes and security updates – here’s the official list: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-24
Most of the updates are rated as “critical”. We’re recommending to our clients that they update right away. Just a reminder for those that don’t have the update packages from us…
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