I had occasion today to install some updates on one of my macOS systems and found myself inconvenienced by a number of applications adding a pile of dock icons without asking. I don't keep much in the dock on my systems preferring to use clover+space to launch applications and I don't think I have touched the dock layout in literally years at this point so I went searching for a solution.
Ubiquiti has discontinued UniFi Video and I do
not endorse the replacmeent. More information may
be found in
this post.
It seems like the blog is turning into an alternating stream of screaming about things Apple is doing wrong and gushing about how great the UniFi line of products are from Ubiquiti... I have a back log of ideas for things to write about other than those it just seems like life keeps getting in the way and and out the other end either a rant or praise just naturally flows.
Edited: December 30, 2017 @14:10
Seriously, It Isn't a Problem
There has been a bunch of discussion around the 'revelation' that a software update to the iPhone was purposefully slowing older phones. While I believe that they should have been more transparent to users about what was happening, perhaps even adopting the UI from the MacBook for when the battery has aged and requires replacement (I had to do this about a year ago on my 2011 MacBook Pro, macOS will toss a little ! by the battery icon and of course System Report will give you further information).
Edited: September 30, 2019 @11:27
Ubiquiti has discontinued UniFi Video and I do
not endorse the replacmeent. More information may
be found in
this post.
I run UniFi to manage my various Ubiquiti access points, now across multiple sites and I try to setup everything with HTTPS only and with certificates signed by my internal CA. I followed for the instructions provided by Ubiquiti for UniFi back when I installed it.
Edited: December 13, 2017 @20:47
I'm not currently subscribed to Patreon largely because when money on the Internet is concerned I have a long wait and see what happens cool down. There are a lot of Internet start ups that come and go like a flash in the pan and a lot that get bought quickly and morphed into something else. If you are going to have some way to charge me money, I need some stability. I have no problem being an early adopter, as long as you don't have a link to my bank account or credit card (even through a third party).
Summary
A while back I posted an initial review of iOS 11 and a follow up along with a what I admit was a bit of a rant about a beta of iOS 11.2.
This morning the UPS guy greeted me with a new Ubiquiti UniFi access point destined for use at work. I have been using a Mikrotik RB951-2HnD as a router and access point but I'm wanting to take advantage of 802.11ac various reasons so I ordered a UAP-AC-IW to replace the built-in Mikrotik WiFi. I'm still going to use the Mikrotik as a router and switch.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the Internet is under attack, but if it does, or if you want to know what you can do about it read on.
Edited: November 14, 2017 @15:00
I feel like I should explain why this irks me so. Apple just made a change so
drastic in the functionality of their user interface (remember that Control
Center is supposed to provide you with quick access to common functions from
anywhere within the operating system) that they feel the need to present the
user with a modal pop-up dialog box explaining why the user's understanding of
the effect of the action that they just took is wrong.
It's probably a testament to the iPhone that I even have these gripes. I was never much of a mobile web user before and compared to others I am sure I'm not much of one now, but I do look at things on my phone now more than I used to.
Wherein I feel like I am the product again...
So lets do a little thought experiment.
- Company says "We sell you things, we don't sell you to other people."
- Company makes this thing they sell you.
- You hand over lets say, $900 for this thing.
- Company has a monopoly on software distribution on this thing.
- Company keeps 30% of the money you pay to any third party software developer who makes applications for their thing.
- Company has a monopoly for payments made inside of applications
running on their thing.
- Company also keeps a percentage of that money.
I have been trying to get AWStats running on my Debian 9.2 (Stretch) web server. It has been fighting me. This is as much a note for future me as it is for you.
Edited: June 02, 2022 @19:00
I monitor the DSM version on my Synology NAS with my icinga2 instance and sometimes alerts pop while I'm not in a position to run the upgrade using the normal GUI process.
iPad Impressions
I mentioned a few things in my first post that I thought might be better on the iPad than the iPhone.
There are a lot of reviews of iOS 11 out there already and as is almost always the case, people are complaining that things changed. This is not that. Part of the reality we live in with our consumer-oriented technology demands is that things change. As a whole iOS 11 seems to be an improvement over previous versions and in general I'm happy with it.