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MacOS X 10.2

Krysia's just been lent a G4 .. Its very tasty, flat screen + final cut pro and a Pro DV editing bit of hardware.

Any how I tried to install Safari on it because IE 5 stinks if you want to use encrypted websites, and found I couldn't because the mmachine wa set to autologon as a particular user and that users password was hidden.

Well suddenly its a challenge as .. whats the point of having a computing device in the house if you can't change augment / customise it.

So its

1. fire up a terminal
2. 

[Loan:~]test% nidump passwd .
nobody:*:-2:-2::0:0:Unprivileged User:/dev/null:/dev/null
root:*:0:0::0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/tcsh
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:System Services:/var/root:/dev/null
unknown:*:99:99::0:0:Unknown User:/dev/null:/dev/null
smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail User:/private/etc/mail:/dev/null
www:*:70:70::0:0:World Wide Web Server:/Library/WebServer:/dev/null
mysql:*:74:74::0:0:MySQL Server:/dev/null:/dev/null
sshd:*:75:75::0:0:sshd Privilege separation:/var/empty:/dev/null
test:Yn7xqFw5/AtGY:501:20::0:0:test:/Users/test:/bin/tcsh

3. I'm logged on as user test so copy the line thats to do with test and ssh a to a 'real' unix box
4. download a password cracker from
http://www.openwall.com/john/dl/john-1.6.tar.gz
5. tar xvzf john*.gz
6. make linux-x86-any-elf
7. copy the hashed password into a text file called 'test'
8. john -i:all test

 > john -i:all test     
Loaded 1 password (Standard DES [24/32 4K])
123456           (test)
guesses: 1  time: 0:00:00:15  c/s: 72396  trying: pipeteim - 145650

Phew .. Now I can install safari .. mmmm. ..Its really nice

By aland at 2003-08-08 21:56 | Apple | Community | aland's blog | login to post comments

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View>Status Bar

Why is it not on by default?

Nice implementation of tabbed browsing.

Quick, does CSS very well and Jaguar [Mac OS X 10.2.x] makes KHTML rendering engine available [fx: my favourite RSS reader: Shrook].

Still love iCab though [but for other reasons].

By pault at Fri, 2003-08-08 22:37 | login to post comments

status bar

No it wasn't by default , .. and after discovering that Konqueror supports sftp://... Think I like that better. That being said..

The Mac will see my cheap digital cam that Linux won't .. I get the following error on Linux
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Sep/3832.html

I guess Apple could afford the NDA and driver licensing fees from some chip manafacturer that the OSS lot have to reverse engineer.

The Gui is sweet. You can use it without being a geek (not that I am of course :))

I'm not impressed with the OS yet though ( maybe if i learn more about it ?). I seem to be able to hang ( at least my user session of) it just by doing simple things .. asking for files.. searching from a command line .. OK all userspace programs can hang .. but I can't get access to another terminal / root shell to kill the offending process off.

Last time I saw a Mac it was Mac OS 8.6 and you just accepted that the power cycle button was a fact of life.. I'd kinda hope things had changed.

Apple should just bite the bullet and open source Aqua / final cut pro / .. then I can run it on Linux .. without all their kludges to make it backwards friendly with OS 9 / classic mode and all the rest of the fluffy mac community.

contentiously yours
AED

By aland at Fri, 2003-08-08 23:20 | login to post comments

browser bits

What happens if you put an sftp: or ftp: url in Safari or any other browser under Mac OS X? If you have System Preferences>Internet set correctly it should launch whatever ftp app you have set up [see Mac notes for some software suggestions] and prefill the [s]ftp lsiting/download dialog. Works for me.

Agreed the GUI is sweet [and getting better with each revision].

My mileage with OS X is that I have to restart much less often. Hangs I've had have almost all been to do with OS X/Classic interaction. Hangs on asking for files... mmmm, sounds like your set up. I can't recall every hanging the machine in terminal [though you are more hard-core command line wise than I am].

Agreed that Apple should help Aqua for Linux. And just coming in on the newswire FSF's Opinion of the Apple Public Source License.

By pault at Sat, 2003-08-09 10:52 | login to post comments

couple more Safari things

It's got a memory leak and therefore becomes a complete hog if you do some heavy-duty browsing. Quits [semi-]gracefully when it's had enough. Memory usage is it's most annoying feature by far. When you get the spinning pizza of death and lots of swap file activity -- time for a quit.

Most annoying little gripe: Safari doesn't do anything meaningful [ie it italicizes the text] with abbr and acronym tags which is shameful. abbr and acronym tags are cool. One thing iCab does better than any other browser, any other platform.

I do have to say though I'm spending a lot more time in Safari than iCab these days [CSS implementation and tabbed browsing being the deciding factors -- rumoured to be fixed in iCab Pre3 coming real soon].

By pault at Fri, 2003-08-08 23:07 | login to post comments

Browsers

MS have dropped IE for the Mac .. and I don't think that , now they have won the browser war with netscape, are really pushing browser innovation so much these days. Its seems a much maturer market compared to 5 years ago.

There is much to be said for Konqueror, and Mozilla .. I'm sure iCab has its USP's .. I gave up with opera (couldn't cope with the ads). All these browsers have a place (particulary in OSS land). If your using anything but windows there is a place for more than one browser on the desktop.

By aland at Fri, 2003-08-08 23:30 | login to post comments

Mac browsers

And hey presto, the next day iCab release Pre 2.9.5 for download. And it does tabs well at least as well as Safari does [first impression].

IE: Mac users are well rid, quite apart from any political considerations it was a horrible, bloated software monstrosity. Aland's right, the market is much more mature. We haven't even mentioned the vary capable Camillo, OmniWeb [which rocks in a very quiet way [also updated this week]] and others I haven't got round to yet.

Been very impressed fiddling with Mozilla. Haven't really been in this area since Netscape Navigator days [which is why used iCab for such a long time!]. No USP Mac-wise for me though [and it's ugly]. The good thing about Mozilla is that it's a better option on Windoze than IE and if you want to use the same browser across Win/Mac/Mac OS X/Linux it's the way to go as far as I can see.

By pault at Sat, 2003-08-09 13:21 | login to post comments
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