Mac Systems

iPhone: totally unsafe
If your iPhone is stolen, the data stored on the device is accessible. Please note that this doesn't involve a complicated hack. All that is needed is to connect a powered off iPhone to an Ubuntu 10.04 PC (most probably any other Linux PC would also work) via USB, then switch it on. "This data protection fl... 28 May 2010 19:16

News Overheard...
Spokane Washington is finally getting an Apple Store... Prior to this; The nearest one was about 300 miles away...! And Apple is Now Bigger than M$! It's no longer the runt of the family. ... 2 Jun 2010 00:05

Adding ACL for a non-network user to a file
This is on an Xserve which has both the local user database (containing plenty of "system" usernames, as well as the LDAP database which contains the regular users. I am trying to give a particular folder read only access to the "system" (local) account _www so the Apache web server can access the directory. I w... 28 May 2010 10:25

Snooping on iPhone data with Linux
"Do you have a PIN code on your iPhone? Well, while that might protect you from someone making a call or fiddling with your apps, it doesn�t prevent access to your data � as long as the person doing the snooping around is using Ubuntu �Lucid Lynx� 10.04. Security experts Bernd Marienfeldt and Jim Herbeck disco... 28 May 2010 15:57

Monitor often fails to wake from monitor sleep.
Tiger, G4 QS Powermac. Two screens, single desktop. *Never* for computer to sleep but 20 mins set for display sleep in Energy saver panel. Screensaver set to come on after 6 mins. A Dell and a 24" LG (W2452). Both the Dell and the LG run at their native resolutions. The Dell is always quick to wake on mouse... 10 Jun 2010 03:27

Mac OS 9.x software
Is there any place where I can find games/software for MacOS 9.x? thanks --Raja ... 27 May 2010 10:21

How to disable built-in iSight webcam
I have a MacBook Pro. Is there any way to disable the iSight webcam without hacking the system too much? thanks --Raja ... 28 May 2010 01:46

Time Machine Error.
All of a sudden I am getting this error from the Time Machine.. during a backup. /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7000] 26/05/10 May 26 - 1:29:42 PM Backup failed with error: 11 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7000] 26/05/10 May 26 - 1:30:10 PM Backup requested by user /System/Library/CoreServices/... 26 May 2010 15:48

Shitty Mac OS X spoils my main memory
On 5/26/10 7:58 AM, in article 9cfdd3f0-eea7-4ecb-a2fa-ce8c02a508bd(a)a16g2000vbr.googlegroups.com, "frankenstein" <klohmuschel(a)yahoo.de> wrote: Not sure, though, did I miss something here Yes you did. It's called cranial matter... ... 26 May 2010 19:10

Google-analytics optout
On 05-26-2010 08:19, Cat wrote: Not for Safari (yet)... http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en Don't accept cookies from google.com or any subdomain, and you have opted out. But google could easily provide a URI where one click downloads a cookie that opts you out of all analytics monitoring. -... 26 May 2010 12:27