12/29/2014 Mac/OS X News, Tips and Tech Articles

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(User Compiled) NTP 4.2.8 revision 4 for OS X 10.6.x (apple forum)
FYI - A google project zero blog post on ntpd vulnerabilities includes "Mitigation" tips at bottom of page for unpatched systems. (Adding "noquery" to every restrict line in the ntp configuration file. For OS X 10.6.x, the file is /private/etc/ntp-restrict.conf.)
Avid Media Composer Documentation & Version Matrix (updated 12/29/2014)
QuickerTek QCard 3 review (MW uk)
(this and others on our page of Mac Compatible 802.11ac Adapters)
Threads on Unexpected installer appears on my desktop (Yosemite forum) and Mysterious download/install (OS X 10.6 forum)

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