Posts for January 2006
Another lot of good news for the week.
18th January, 2006
Google,
2227:37 < @root> Question on JABBER connection (handle removed@kruel.org): 2227:37 < @root> The user removed@gmail.com wants to add you to their buddy list
Enough said, I reckon.
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16th January, 2006
Life, Gentoo,
Had some offline time in a sense this last 5 days, when my computer of about 6 years (a P3-900Mhz), decided that it would finally blow-up, but only in a way that would cause me to wonder wtf it was doing.
2 Gentoo installs later, I realised it was not the hdd's going, but it was the motherboard (sigh).
So now, I have spent some money, and upgraded to a new fast machine (xorg compiled in 36 minutes!). So I am slowly catching up on email and things that have happened over the past week.
For those who are interested, some stats about the new computer:
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2211.355 MHz)
- 1 Gig of ram
- 4 x 250G HDD's
- 6600td graphics card
- asus motherboard with on board gigabit (nforce4 chipset)
- nice coolmaster 531 case.
Gentoo seems to run okay on it (running in actual 64 bit mode), with some apps requiring emulation due to no 32 bit support for now.
nforce4 drivers took a bit to get working - once i realised they used OSS instead of ALSA, things became much more apparent.
Will post some more info about the system in a week or so, to let you know how its going in 64 bit stuff.
Mac OS X: How to reset your users password
7th January, 2006
Life,
[Do note, this isn't the easiest option, but it is the option that works when you do not have a Mac OS Install CD lying around.]
A friend brang over his iBook today, after forgetting his username's password, and thus being unable to login. I figured this would be easy. Boot into single-user mode, reset the username's password, reboot.
I was so wrong.
Booting into single-user mode wasn't that hard. Hold command + s on startup. (Command for any normal mac user is the apple-cloverleaf key right next to the spacebar).
After booting in and trying to get niutil to talk to me (which i found i had to use), it refused to listen.
Playing around with a few google methods for a while, lead me to this page, Which is fine if you use Mac OS X 10.2 or lower, but useless with any newer version.
So a bit more googling and I get this even better page.
It explains that i need to run a few scripts and start the netinfo daemon. Fair enough.
Then that didn't work, because it couldn't find the user.
Great.
Then I realise that the username contains an i not an l and that solves that. Reboot and the user can now log in. I'm happy, the friend is happy, and I decided I want to keep my gentoo box. :-)
(PS. Before i noticed the username had that i, I tried about 20 different other ways to change it. Maybe that's why i'm annoyed with it :p)
Being mobile
7th January, 2006
Linux,
In news that can only be classified as "now I really am mobile", I took the plunge and set up moto4lin on my desktop, and now I am able to browse the contents of my mobile phone &mash excellent!
While it may take a bit longer to actually for me to actually live the dream of my phone's address book syncing with my desktop version, its definately a step in the right direction. So stay tuned for what that unfolds.
On Engin and VOIP and !Sleeping
Andrew, It may not be much, but I have a log of a IRC Chat that took between members of the AtomicMPC IRC Channel, and Steve and Rudd from Engin if it reveals any answers (probably won't).
Meanwhile, to more important matters, cheers for the early rising links. This was posted at 20 past 4 in the morning. Not because I just woke up, but because I haven't slept yet :-)