Archive for June, 2006

Hell of a Storm

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Ok, this - if nothing else - will spur me to post all the various pictures, movies and sundry (woo, sundry!) things that I need to post.

I gotta put the short clips of this storm up. Not so much for the lightning/thunder (which has been good, though I don’t get to see sky to ground here), but for the absolute monsoon-like rain. It’s impressive and it’s been going for quite awhile not (at least a half hour).

Stay tuned, should be up tomorrow.

Useful If You Need to Reset an OS X Password

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

This is for those times when you’ve got an OS X machine that needs to be pretty much “as it was”, but you have to get into it with Admin privs:

I just done the following and it reset the Administrators password anyways….

Restart the computer and while it’s starting up, hold command-S. This will start up in Single-User Mode, which gives you a root command line. At this point, type the following commands:

code:mount -uw /

cd /private/var/db

rm .AppleSetupDone

exit

Your computer should now allow you to create a new administrator just the same as the first time you turned it on. From here, you can do whatever fixes you need.

Ugh - Stupid ‘Upgrades’

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Why do upgrades to software routinely have to break things that worked fine previously?

WordPress may be the blogging software that I use and like, but its upgrades can be painful :-P

This one has broken, somehow, comment editing (which is really only a problem for me, but…). Wonder what other surprises I’ll find.