aperture

Backing up Aperture Vault to a NAS

Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?

Java can't send mail due to a certificate error

I use a plugin to Aperture to send mail to gmail. It was failing due to a

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path
building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
valid certification path to requested target

Colour calibration - Macbook Pro -> Epson 2000P

I finally managed to get consistent colour right from the screen through to the printer. Here's what I needed to do.

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