The Handy Dandy LJ security, tools, tips and tricks portion

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Seem this post is the handy LJ security and tips and tricks portion

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Say, how do I automate locking my journal down?

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Running Unix? or a Unix shell or ActiveState Perl via a shell of somekind?

Glad you asked... You grab this toolset:

http://www.bpfh.net/computing/software/LJ%3a%3aSimple/

Unpack it, and follow the instructions. In the examples directory there is a simple script that will turn all public entries to friend-only. It won't alter other marked entries for purposes of keeping them as-is (like you marked them private, or special-filters).

There you go (thanx to my grrl to the pointer).

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Hey, I'm on OSX, now what?

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Well, you should have perl already, that's a good start.

You're going to have to find and download and unpack the developer kit from Apple. Then install it. That will supply the 'make' tool you will need. You're also going to need to have admin rights to install it.

Then you just run the script, you will probably also have to point it to the local version of perl (or create a link for future use).

Note:

The script is also "delicate" and if it times out, you will need to rerun it, it'll figure out where to start off again. Repeat until done. It'll just work.

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Say, how do I backup my journal? Other LJ tools?

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Well, again, if you gots your shell/unix/activestate-perl:

http://www.offtopia.net/ljsm/index_en.html

There's the priorly mentioned LJ::Simple, and there's also:
http://ljtools.sourceforge.net/

Good stuff. LJ::Simple looks best if you're going to start from scratch though.

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Re: Say, how do I backup my journal? Other LJ tools?

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might need this package too:

http://www.linpro.no/lwp/

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still looking into other backup options. later.

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Re: Say, how do I backup my journal? Other LJ tools?

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http://www.google.com/search?q=livejournal+backup

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month by month, boring:
http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8

some clients can to: needs more looking into
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=158

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http://www.livejournal.com/community/ljbackup_dev/

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Re: Say, how do I backup my journal? Other LJ tools?

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this is looking good:

http://www.boutell.com/scripts/mirror-livejournal.html

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this appears sophisticated but windows only:
http://fawx.com/ljArchive/

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and there's this service to conver to pdf for you...

http://www.ljbook.com/

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not yet, but there's always the chance. the teeth that gnaw.

i'm sure i'll have some public posts, but overall, why bore folx with the old stuff. teh juicy ;)

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what da hell, dey got a peppah bar in dere

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other handy privacy informations - picture opt out - default friends-lock

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supplied by teddywookie
"I didn't know this so maybe you don't either. But you probably do. Oh well.

Anyway, turns out we can opt out of the LJ lastest-posts feed and keep posted images from getting picked up by the numerous trawlers out there. Opinions differ, but the image reapers even seem to have access to images in friends-only posts. I can't test that since I don't have a working access log anymore but it certainly looks that way to me.

So yeah, admin console, command: set latest_optout yes

A little more information: http://community.livejournal.com/copywrong/137681.html"

AND:

default security level:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=120

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