Month: September 2011
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fink on Lion
When I set up fink on Snow Leopard quite a while ago, I didn’t really care, where XCode and all that went. Now with Lion things are not running as smooth. I have to put /Developer/usr/bin on PATH. But that still doesn’t allow to successfully run ./bootstrap . How bad! I think I am going…
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Poke disables Oracle’s database auditing – The H Security: News and Features
Poke disables Oracle’s database auditing – The H Security: News and Features: A command that is known from the BASIC programming language apparently allows unauthorised users to disable the auditing functions of Oracle databases. Experts think that this renders products which are based on these functions, such as Oracle Audit Vault, “nearly useless”
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Mac OS X Lion makes it unnecessarily easy for password crackers – The H Security: News and Features
Mac OS X Lion makes it unnecessarily easy for password crackers – The H Security: News and Features: A security expert reports that under Lion, even users without root privileges have access to other users’ password hashes. Hashes can be used to establish the original password
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OpenIndiana’s fork of OpenSolaris sees new Illumos based release – The H Open Source: News and Features
OpenIndiana’s fork of OpenSolaris sees new Illumos based release – The H Open Source: News and Features: A year after the first release, the developers of the OpenSolaris fork, OpenIndiana, have released a new version that now includes the Illumos kernel
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changing the Google account of a droid is a pain
Looks like I started setting up the SII with the “wrong” Google account: the Google Apps account. I got the idea to associate the droid with another Google account, but that only works after a complete reset of the droid.
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switched to the new Blogger interface for now
Either I did not see the features, that I 100% expect, last time, that I tried it, or they were not there. But today it just looks a little strange, but not bad. I give it a try.
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fink, XCode, connect.apple.com, …
A while after upgrading to Lion, there is a need for me, to make use of fink again. Well, when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, XCode did not get upgraded as well. Now that I tried do update fink again, it complained about what ever, but at least it pointed me to XCode…
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“Getting Started” with “The Go Programming Language” on …
Getting Started – The Go Programming Language (…/install.html) installing the software on an openSUSE-11.3 machine … That was a piece of cake compared to the attempted installation on Mac OS X Lion. What a waste of time the latter was. My workset of commands on my openSUSE box: 8c – the Go compiler 8l – the…
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Chrome 14 arrives with native code and web audio – The H Open Source: News and Features
Chrome 14 arrives with native code and web audio – The H Open Source: News and Features: The latest stable version of the browser goes more web-centric with web audio, and more native running x86 code from the browser with Native Client