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Has anyone seen this technique yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uv45y6vkcQ It involves a simple method that renders 90% of all key-based locks useless. Fascinating from a security point of view, because the method and the principle on which its based are purely mechanical, and could...

Slashdot, Ars Technica, and a blog on the Washington Post all have info on this vulnerability. It involves a MacBook with the Airport card powered on, and wireless preferences set to connect to any available open network...read on. We occasionally get posts on these boards where people...

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=254723 Vide post count for lotusflamme. Not important in this instance, but may signal an accounting problem somewhere.

I've read the threads (such as this one) and done my own research, but as I start yet another small business I want to hear from you. Do you run a small business or sole proprietorship? How do you track your finances? What's been the most helpful software for you? What are its most...

Right, this is a new one on me. I've installed nothing recently, I run no Quick Keys-type key sequence convenience software, I have no OS-wide convenience or tweaking software of any kind, no virus software. I have no peripherals attached. I'm using this "October 2005" TiBook that I've had...

My eyes are blurry; that must mean I have a java classpath issue again. I have an executable jar that involves, among other things, instantiating an XML reader: XMLReader parser = org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader( "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser" ); The parser...

I'm getting this series of log messages over and over again: 2003-05-08 10:24:53.079 nfsiod[524] Last modified: 2003-04-12 13:11:25 -0400 2003-05-08 10:24:53.079 nfsiod[524] Niks gebeurd 2003-05-08 10:24:53.080 nfsiod[524] no I'm guessing that nfsiod initially had some Dutch coders...

I don't suffer total kernel panics per se (the international screen of death and all that), but I've had massive instability problems with applications -- enough, and democratically enough across applications, that it's definitely a system-wide problem. Which leads me to the kernel, that...

So there's this handy built-in Firewall, right? And it's easy to turn on and configure: System Preferences->Sharing->Firewall You just click "Start", and select the services you'd like to enable. You can also add other oft-used ports by clicking the "New..." button to the right of the...

Anyone have recommendations for an app to automate IA and database architecture for OS X (similar to Visio, but less sucky, and on a Mac)? It's really for database design. I can do it by hand on a napkin, but sometimes it's nicer on the screen. Thanks!

So, I was happy to get the new beta for Palm Desktop X because it was the last reason I had to boot up Classic! In general, it works fine -- but every four or five syncs Palm seems to leave a lockfile around for my user name. This means that it thinks it can't access my "User Data" and...

All dock and windows items run fine, right up until the point when a user initiates an FTP session. After the first session begins, all dock movements are sluggish, as are any windows management tasks (moving a window, minimizing a window, switching apps, etc.). REALLLLLY slow. Note that...

So I've been futzing with the makefile for gd 2.0.1 because Apple's ld doesn't recognize the -shared flag, and make was dying. Unable to figure out from the man pages what's the proper substitution for -shared, I've just removed the flag to see what happens. And now, of course, ld dies with a...

Hey folks, I'm working on installing GD support for PHP on my OX 10.1 PowerBook, and I want to include FreeType support. FreeType, curiously, doesn't seem to recognize the existence of OS X -- the package still warns that they "do not support Macs". I substituted OS X's native "config.guess"...

I know I commented on this before...but this is pretty outrageous. CC looks for its own specs in /usr/local/libexec/ppc/specs, but this directory doesn't exist! Oh boy. There is a /usr/libexec/ppc, but this doesn't contain a specs file. And the headers are missing. I hope Apple has...

I just noticed this dir. Anyone know why these modules (DynaLoader.pm, POSIX.pm, mod_perl.pm, etc.) are in here? Just curious -- Matt

I don't necessarily have the luxury of waiting for Apple to release a Dev Tools that works with the final build (right now I'm working with 4K78) -- what have you developer types done with post-PB builds? The original Dev Tools disk no longer installs gcc. (Why? It's opaque to me.) My...

Does everyone have this default TERMCAP entry? <CODE><FONT SIZE="2">TERMCAP=d0|vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100: :do=^J:co#80:li#45:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED: :le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A: :ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m...

Everything had been working perfectly for quite a while, when all of a sudden today I tried to bring up System Preferences, which I'd done many times before, and nothing happened. No hanging, no other unusual behavior -- but now when I select "System Preferences..." the selection blinks and...