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You have to make a UDF format image - if you burn an HFS image, the files will be accessible, but most DVD players won't play it. Here's what I did to go from a folder (call it MOVIE) with two subfolders (VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS) hdiutil makehybrid -udf -o MOVIE.iso MOVIE This makes a file...

In fact, launchd seems to be relatively broken. (1) There is (or at least was) a bug in launchd such that periodic tasks are run only once per boot, no matter how long the computer is up. This may have been fixed, I don't know, as I ususally shut my computer off every night. Anyway, here is...

Oh, I should have mentioned - ports below 1024 are reserved for privileged users. Only a process with system level privileges can listen on port 445.

You can't just close a listening port without knowing what process has it open - you have to find out what process is associated with the port, figure out why that process is starting and/or why it's opening the port, and how to change that behaviour.

You're both wrong - Apple still hasn't released the code for Intel Macs. Here is the source for Darwin on PPC. The Darwin kernel is called xnu, so you have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find it. Here is the source for Darwin on Intel Macs. Notice the absence of xnu. You...

Absolutely - turn off "open safe files after download", and don't manually open anything that you didn't expect to start downloading from a website. That and don't open email attachments you weren't expecting, and you will be safe from not only these particular problems, but probably the next...

Windows uses UDP ports 137 and 138 and TCP ports 139 and 445. Perhaps Samba in OS X doesn't use 445... To find out what process is associated with a network connection or socket, run sudo lsof -i +c 0 lsof stands for "list open files"; the -i option limits the output to open network...

You say that nothing shows up in sharing? microsoft-ds (port 445) is for the windows file sharing service.

I'm not sure that will help much. For example, if a user has already opened the Terminal, then there will be no confirmation if they get hit with one of these (the drive-by download in Safari, the emailed app-that-looks-like-a-jpeg) Even if you forced the user to first save the file to the...

I'm just hypothesizing here, but this seems to make sense. It's brilliant strategy, of exactly the sort that makes me dislike many proprietary software vendors, and appreciate the freedom of OSS... Apple knew that OS X would end up running on generic x86 hardware - there's just no stopping...

The second one is a proof of concept only - it has not been spotted in the wild, and looks as though it's been written specifically to prevent it from spreading in the wild. The programmer of this one was pretty careful too - in case the measures to prevent spreading were buggy, they even put...

perhaps try deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Camino That's actually where Camino stores most of its settings.

Yeah, if your neighbours are technical (and if they're willing to expend the effort to crack your WEP keys) then they'd be able to get your WEP keys in a few minutes. WPA is what you need.

I have the same problem - sort of. I can go to Edit - Keychain List. I can browse to where the keychain file is (it's called old.keychain). But I can't select the old keychain; it's greyed out. I know the keychain is a valid one - I can use security dump-keychain /Users/mark/old.keychain...

You might look into a little dedicated NAS device like this one: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6034423798.html http://www.newisys.com/products/na-1400.html Not exactly dirt cheap, but not really much more than a Mac Mini + a couple of firewire drives.

do you just mean you need to mount the disk? hdiutil attach sol-10-u1-ga-x86-v1.iso -readwrite should do it, I think.

By "dubious" I take it you mean "useful" - i.e. you can't crack WEP keys with airport extreme.

What's wrong with just using scponly?

How can you afford a 20" G5 iMac, but only a 17" Intel one? iMacs are the exact same price regardless of the processor, aren't they? Or is the 20" G5 a special deal you've rounded up somehow?

It is in fact viruses that snoop on your online transactions. Since, as you mention, banks use SSL (and have for a long time now), the weakest link is going to be the user's home computer, not the SSL session. Plenty of viruses include keyloggers, or use other tactics to capture passwords to...