Tuesday, November 10, 2009

iphone worm in the wild

Jailbroken your iphone and installed SSH? Make sure you change the password!

The worm is able to infect [jailbroken] phones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

avoid the dreaded mac droppings

Macs do have a distinctly antisocial habit when it comes to sharing drives with other machines: Mac Droppings. Also known as Mac Leavings or Mac Dust, for those with excessively easily offended sensibilities.

PC users can tell when you've borrowed their USB drive, because your mac left ds_stores and trashes everywhere it went. Actually the resource forks are more annoying, since that means there are (what look like) duplicate copies of everything.

You end up having to clean up after the mac every single damn time. It really is quite irritating.

However you can avoid the wrath of your network drive administrator! There's software to clean up the problem: BlueHarvest: DS_Stores, ._Resource Forks, .Folders. Keep it clean.. It's kind of like those dog leashes with plastic bag dispensers built into the handle.

Talk about niche software! :)

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Snow Leopard bug: auto-deletion of primary user profile

BBC NEWS | Technology | Data losses in Snow Leopard bug:

Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses when logging into their machines under a guest account.

The problem appears to affect those who had a guest account enabled before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Users have in some cases lost their entire main profile, including sites, pictures, videos and documents.

Ouch. Be careful if you're upgrading to the chilly kitty.