DS homebrew Mac
July 07, 2008 (mid-morning)
How cool- someone has developed a Mac System 6 emulator for the Nintendo DS. Ken Fager has a shot on Flickr.
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Happy 30, Space Invaders
June 29, 2008 (lunch time)
This month is the 30th birthday of Space Invaders. 1UP is running a fun story called ”Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Space Invaders.”
“At the height of Space Invaders’ popularity—or so the story goes—so many 100-yen coins were tied up in the coin boxes of Space Invaders machines that it caused a nationwide shortage, forcing the Bank of Japan to triple the coin’s production.”
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Fun bloglines “service down” screen
June 29, 2008 (lunch time)
I just caught this fun “service down” screen over at bloglines.com.
How to run a cron script every 30 minutes
June 26, 2008 (late morning)
To run a cron script every 30 minutes, specify minute intervals of both on the hour and 30 minutes past the hour separated by a comma.
0,30 * * * * wget http://dfbills.com > /dev/null
About that “Huge, Crazy, Ridiculous OS X Security Hole” (updated)
June 25, 2008 (late evening)
So what about this “Huge, Crazy, Ridiculous OS X Security Hole” that has been making the rounds on the news sites?
Well, it’s very simple. There is no security whatsoever in place to prevent AppleScript messages between users on a local machine. This means that any user can tell an app running as root to do something malicious. And, according to Charles Srstka, author of the popular Pacifist program, this security hole was reported as early as 2004! Wow.
Rixstep has an excellent writeup on the issue entitled “Huge, Crazy, Ridiculous OS X Security Hole.” It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the issue.
update: Rixtep’s followup article has even more gory details.