MacOS X : Use the keychain
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Actually, you can use it in MacOS 9 as well. The keychain is an encrypted store of anything, but mainly passwords, that is unlocked by your user login. Browsers like Camino and Safari will save your website passwords to it, and Mail.app will save your email passwords to it, and the OS will use it to store passwords for encrypted disk images, or filesharing mounts, or your.Mac account. In MacOS X 10.3, the system will recognize login passwords of lengths greater than 8 characters.
The upshot of all this is that it allows you to generate good, strong passwords like series of letters, numbers, and special characters that have a high amount of entropy but are too difficult to remember. So long as you have a very strong login password (this was not possible in MacOS X 10.2.x and earlier), they will be protected by the keychain.
This is similar to Bruce Schneier's Password Safe and is more convenient in many respects than his solution of keeping his passwords written down on a piece of paper in his wallet. He argues that we all have a lot of real-world experience at keeping our wallets safe, but I have a lot of passwords. How many do you have? Does anyone else dig around in your wallet, like your wife? What if she found out you had a password to someplace you shouldn't, like... uh... Slashdot?
I like my keychain. I'm surprised Tog never mentioned it. Wasn't he an Apple guru at some time?
It really is not that hard to fill up a 40 GB iPod.
Oh, I know, like I said, I have enough music already to exceed 40GB.
What I'm saying is that the rate of growth of iPod capacity is much larger than the rate of growth of my consumption of that capacity. In the past two years, iPod disks have increased in size from 5GB to 40GB. That's an additional 700% more or 35GB more. So, in two more years they will be somewhere between 75GB (another 35GB) or 240GB (another 700%) and I'll bet ya it's closer to the latter than the former. And what about the two years after that?
40 GB will not hold my entire collection, which is one of the reasons I haven't bought one yet.
It won't hold mine either, but it is getting close. Certainly close enough that now when I pick music to put on the iPod, it is actually faster and easier for me to pick music to leave off the iPod. The iPod capacities are growing much faster than music collection capacities, at least legit ones... I certainly have not acquired 35GB of music in 2 years. So in the near future there will need to be some other way to make the iPod better.
Other follow-ups to my original post have mentioned video, but making a large enough screen to view the video will make the iPod un-holdable, until we can get much better projection technology or virtual light goggles.
Perhaps the next big feature boost will be the wireless that has been lacking for the past 2 years and thus making it "Lame." as one/. editor put it.
"...it's so elegant and logical, it becomes part of your life so quickly that you can't remember what it was like beforehand.''
Like the subject says, I agree. I've had mine (30 GB) for a year now. My wife got one of the first 5 GB models and is now using a 20 GB model. We have used our iPods on two cross-country drives in the past 18 months... the freedom from the morass of country music that blankets about 75% of the distance between the two coasts is alone worth the iPod's price. When I discovered that play counts on my iPod would be updated to my computer when I synced, I started using only the iPod to listen to music. It connects to my stereo via the line-out on a spare dock. My CDs now just gather dust.
The iPod competitors so far have lacked the interface and/or small size to be navigable with one hand. It will be interesting to see what Apple comes up with next. Can drive sizes keep going up and be useful? Do we need a 200 GB iPod?
This works for me but not all the time. Sometimes it fails, as it is doing consistently with QuickTime 6.4 on a machine running 10.2.8 (I know this is a Panther-related main topic but bear with me). The update gets only to 50% installed and then hangs there, I have tried several times. I have succesfully updated this machine on the command line since failing to do QT 6.4. It's just this one update. Any advice for getting it to work remotely (I am 3500 miles away from it and unlikely to be near it any time soon)?
It apparently breaks compatibility with Windows so be careful.
More specifically, it will break compatibility of the Bluetooth module (such as the USB->Bluetooth dongle) with Windows machines. Only an issue if you have one of those USB dongles and after updating its firmware you try to take it over to use the same USB dongle on a Windows box. Definitely a non-issue for PowerBooks with built-in Bluetooth.
Since the update addressed issues I was having with my MS Bluetooth mouse, I installed it. Now I'm having mysterious issues with waking from sleep. Going to try resetting the Power Management Unit as a fix after I give DiskWarrior a shot at the hard drive. Have already reset PRAM and NVRAM with no luck.
The evening "News" is so corporate owned and supported that I don't really consider it a reliable source for information.
I skim web reports for news, but I get my in-depth reporting from the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS in the evenings and from Morning Edition on NPR in the mornings. Other broadcast or cable news sources simply do not compare for accuracy or depth or insight, and are accurately parodied by the Daily Show.
I wouldn't boast about that unless you want the RIAA knocking at your door...
yawn it's legit, ripped 192 kbps MP3 and some AAC. My CDs are still around to gather dust and get re-ripped when I change formats (I have changed twice so far).
Is there anyone out there who has actually filled up a 20Gb Ipod and would want a 40Gb version?
My MP3 collection is too big to fit on my 30GB iPod, but that iPod is big enough that I went through my iPod playlist to remove artists/songs/albums that I did not want, rather than picking the ones that I did want. I also leave several GB of space open to transfer other data from computer to computer. The automatic updating of play counts and the ability to rate the songs I like/dislike has me using only my iPod to listen to music - I connect it to my home sound system rather than hassle with CDs. The iPod is definitely not lame, and it continues to get less lame.
This page lists many official times of under 20 seconds. Furthermore the middle of the page lists the previously quoted 22.95 seconds as simply the previous world championship time, not the previous record. Finally, you can see even faster times on an unofficial list where some people claim to have solved in 11 seconds.
It's not a new world record, it's simply a new championship winner. The world record is still 16.53 seconds.
Compact flourescent bulbs produce the same light level (in lumens) and consume 25% of the power (in watts). They also last tens of thousands of hours as opposed to hundreds of hours. And you can buy them today for 1/10th the price quoted by John Fan in the original article.
LEDs have their places where you need something bright and compact that can be turned on and off quickly. I like the new LED flashlights, brake lights, and street lights. But use flourescents for lighting, please, and use them today.
Also, the number of e-mails I get asking if I can ship to some obscure country where credit card fraud is thriving is very high.
This is annoying, yes, I experienced the same thing (written about in my journal) recently selling a laptop on eBay. However, I found that all these obvious scams were by people trying to circumvent the eBay / Paypal system. If you as a seller ship to confirmed Paypal addresses (the confirmed address is the same as the CC's billing address) in the U.S. you are protected against stolen CC #s. A buyer using a stolen identity (stolen CC on which he has changed the billing address) will still defeat you. eBay also provides ways for you to recover fees from auctions with nonpaying auction winners.
eBay appears to have a system that works well enough in protecting sellers that many scammers simply try to circumvent it. Or, they work on scamming buyers, as the person described in the original article did.
It was built for use in the first movie that I ever walked out of, called "Damnation Alley"
You're right, and I'm wrong. It's on the poster for that movie which predates Galactica by a couple years and visible at this review page (scroll halfway down). I managed to dig up a land ram picture here and it uses a CAT-track, while the vehicle I remember always had wheels. My bad. Anyhow I'd much rather have that truck than some guy's leopard-skin loincloth from Buck Rogers (shiver).
But how could you not have liked "Damnation Alley?" With both Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard? You just can't go wrong with a cast like that!
It's been there for decades, I believe it's one of the vehicles from the "Ice Planet Zero" episode, sitting in a used car lot on Cahuenga. Anyone else notice it?
I use NiMH as well. Especially for those pesky wireless mice, which go through pairs of alkaline AAs about every two weeks. They last absurdly long in TV remotes, and about a month or more in my wife's Palm. If I had a digital camera I'd be even more stoked on rechargeables. I'm certainly stoked that NiMH batteries (120 D cells) are in my car.
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The upshot of all this is that it allows you to generate good, strong passwords like series of letters, numbers, and special characters that have a high amount of entropy but are too difficult to remember. So long as you have a very strong login password (this was not possible in MacOS X 10.2.x and earlier), they will be protected by the keychain.
This is similar to Bruce Schneier's Password Safe and is more convenient in many respects than his solution of keeping his passwords written down on a piece of paper in his wallet. He argues that we all have a lot of real-world experience at keeping our wallets safe, but I have a lot of passwords. How many do you have? Does anyone else dig around in your wallet, like your wife? What if she found out you had a password to someplace you shouldn't, like... uh... Slashdot?
I like my keychain. I'm surprised Tog never mentioned it. Wasn't he an Apple guru at some time?
What I'm saying is that the rate of growth of iPod capacity is much larger than the rate of growth of my consumption of that capacity. In the past two years, iPod disks have increased in size from 5GB to 40GB. That's an additional 700% more or 35GB more. So, in two more years they will be somewhere between 75GB (another 35GB) or 240GB (another 700%) and I'll bet ya it's closer to the latter than the former. And what about the two years after that?
Other follow-ups to my original post have mentioned video, but making a large enough screen to view the video will make the iPod un-holdable, until we can get much better projection technology or virtual light goggles.
Perhaps the next big feature boost will be the wireless that has been lacking for the past 2 years and thus making it "Lame." as one /. editor put it.
The iPod competitors so far have lacked the interface and/or small size to be navigable with one hand. It will be interesting to see what Apple comes up with next. Can drive sizes keep going up and be useful? Do we need a 200 GB iPod?
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As a follow-up, the problem was fixed by the Bluetooth 1.0.2 Firmware updater.
Since the update addressed issues I was having with my MS Bluetooth mouse, I installed it. Now I'm having mysterious issues with waking from sleep. Going to try resetting the Power Management Unit as a fix after I give DiskWarrior a shot at the hard drive. Have already reset PRAM and NVRAM with no luck.
* plonk *
It's not a new world record, it's simply a new championship winner. The world record is still 16.53 seconds.
LEDs have their places where you need something bright and compact that can be turned on and off quickly. I like the new LED flashlights, brake lights, and street lights. But use flourescents for lighting, please, and use them today.
eBay appears to have a system that works well enough in protecting sellers that many scammers simply try to circumvent it. Or, they work on scamming buyers, as the person described in the original article did.
But how could you not have liked "Damnation Alley?" With both Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard? You just can't go wrong with a cast like that!
It's been there for decades, I believe it's one of the vehicles from the "Ice Planet Zero" episode, sitting in a used car lot on Cahuenga. Anyone else notice it?
I use NiMH as well. Especially for those pesky wireless mice, which go through pairs of alkaline AAs about every two weeks. They last absurdly long in TV remotes, and about a month or more in my wife's Palm. If I had a digital camera I'd be even more stoked on rechargeables. I'm certainly stoked that NiMH batteries (120 D cells) are in my car.