WTF: Freeze the balls
Because everybody wants to know how to freeze the balls of a brass monkey.
(I was trying to search “freeze the system” haha)
VMWare Fusion Port Forwarding in NAT Mode
I did a webserver for my debian vm and I wanted the server to be available within all the other machines on the lan, but the problem was that only I was able to see it (of course, it is on my mac). A easy solution can be switching the VM network adapter to bridge, but that’s an easy one c’mon!. VMware Fusion is capable of doing port forwarding on the NAT network adapter (that sounds yummy), so thats going to be my solution, doing port forwarding. Just look at the steps and learn.
Vim Cheat Sheet Widget for Dashboard
WTF: Access from Mexico is not allowed
Access was denied because I was from Mexico. According to the site, it was because of security reasons. WTF could a good security reason be, not to allow mexican users, perhaps swine flu? Lol.
Disable OSX Built-in Apache
I was trying to turn off the Apache server that leopard has included. But for some reason, everytime I killed the process, the process just reappeared instantaneously after!. After doing some research, I realized that I needed to disable it from launchd (the daemons manager), and then finally stopping it. These are the steps:
- Open the Terminal.app and type the following commands:
- sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
- sudo mv /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist.original
- sudo httpd -k stop
Tip: Keeping your macbook battery healthy
If you are one of those people who ask themselves “Why my macbook isn’t charging completely anymore?” / “Why it doesn’t go more than 96%?”. Surprise! batteries need calibration. According to apple, you should calibrate your battery at least once every two months. The steps are so easy:
- Charge your battery up to 100% or verify that the charger indicator is green.
- Disconnect the macbook from the electricity
- Let it discharge entirely
- Connect the charger again to the electricity and charge it to the max.
- Done!!
More info: Calibrating a MacBook/ MacBook Pro (apple)
Creating hidden users / accounts on OS X 10.4
Hiding users has a bunch of purposes. For example: I do it to hide my hacking stuff from the daily-use account; other people, like administrators just don’t want to have their usernames in the login window, etc. I wrote a tiny bash script to automate the process of hiding users on Leopard/Tiger; you just have to edit the variables USERNAME and PASSWORD (also the ID variable, but this one is just if you are going to create more users).
Why Internet + Brute force = Stupid, 99% of the time
1. Scales exponentially
The work required to incrementally search a password grows
exponentially with each letter. In other words, to search for a password with
six letters, you do ninety five times as much work as searching for a password
with five letters (assuming you’re using the 95 printable ASCII characters only).
To search for a password with ten letters, you do 7.7 billion times more work than
searching for a password with five letters.
OS X Massive Security Update
If something distinguished us (the mac users) is that we believe in the naive idea that Mac’s can’t have viruses. While maybe it’s true that there isn’t that many specific OSX targeted viruses, we are being the target of Botnets of spam/scam in the world. In fact the only way to prevent this is by updating your mac, not updating will result in being part of spam Botnets.
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