February 2008
6 posts
Civilization crashes on Init Python in Leopard
My new copy of Civilization is dead on arrival. No empire-building for me this weekend. Case-sensitive HFS+ is an unsupported configuration. No simple plist edits here, I need to reformat my laptop if I want it to work. Payback for being a geek. I want a case-sensitive, Unicode-friendly filesystem. And I want Macintosh Applications to work on it. Is that so wrong? Maybe the pirated version...
Security Vulnerability in Firefox, not.
Reports of a “Serious Vulnerability in Firefox 2.0.0.12“ are greatly exaggerated, to say the least. It seems that someone discovered the “view source” feature, that allows you to see the source code of Firefox from within Firefox (handy for developers) and decided to claim that it could be used to discover private information. It can’t. The only files you can see are,...
TrueCrypt Released for OSX
This is so hot that I’m gonna post without even trying it out (must maintain plausible deniability): TrueCrypt is now available to the rest of us. “Free, open-source, on-the-fly encryption” means that you can create encrypted disk images, including hidden ones. Portability between OSX, Windows, and Linux means that you can share them with other people. It just got a lot easier to...
Fluid.app is an OSX must-have
Update (2008-04-05): I recommend using Camino for security-sensitive applications like email, shopping, or banking. Fluid is a little too integrated with other WebKit apps like Mail, Saftari and Dashboard. Fluid.app lets you create site-specific web browsers in OSX. Why would you want to do this? So you can alt-tab between your web browser and your weblog. Or between your web browser and GMail. ...
“As for that eternal life and women throwing themselves at you, we’ve...”
– Slashdot | Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe?
