Oh Esh Shekshay!
Feb. 12th, 2002 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progFinsihed reading the missing manual book last night, hiding out in the Shrine while Carla and the Carlas were GURPSing downstairs. She has found approximately one hundred new players for her Discworld compaign since I snuck out of it, successfully trolling from the Mostly Looney crowd and the people who played in her Vericon pick-up game. So that's pretty good.
I consider the book a good read, though I found its stance a bit on the fanboy side, passing up opportunities for criticism I would have taken. The most glaring example I recall comes when Pogue addresses a security flaw in present Mac OS X machines: a malevolent user with access to the physical machine can effectively get root (or its classic-Mac equivalent) simply by restarting the machine into OS 9 (providing an OS 9 CD if the machine doesn't have that system on-disk). He advises considering the system CDs as the box's master keys, and storing them somewhere safe. Erm, that metaphor doesn't work very well, when you consider that every modern Mac owner has the very same "keys".
Regardless, I learned a lot. Today I will finish reading Apple's PDF all about Netinfo, and then I'll turn my attention towards working on an outline again. I turned in a lame one on Friday, but I am shmarter now, and the sooner I can turn in an outline I like, the sooner I can sign a contract, and start collecting sweet, sweet advances. Mm, baby.
My iBook screen definitely has a pinched nerve, or something. Opening it past a certain angle, about 95 degrees or so, blackens the screen. This is workable, but annoying. Unlike the broken media bay latch, this problem has continuous effect on my iBook use (I'd like the screen to be facing my eyes, not my chest), and so I'll start seeking information on a fix now. Hum dee.
I consider the book a good read, though I found its stance a bit on the fanboy side, passing up opportunities for criticism I would have taken. The most glaring example I recall comes when Pogue addresses a security flaw in present Mac OS X machines: a malevolent user with access to the physical machine can effectively get root (or its classic-Mac equivalent) simply by restarting the machine into OS 9 (providing an OS 9 CD if the machine doesn't have that system on-disk). He advises considering the system CDs as the box's master keys, and storing them somewhere safe. Erm, that metaphor doesn't work very well, when you consider that every modern Mac owner has the very same "keys".
Regardless, I learned a lot. Today I will finish reading Apple's PDF all about Netinfo, and then I'll turn my attention towards working on an outline again. I turned in a lame one on Friday, but I am shmarter now, and the sooner I can turn in an outline I like, the sooner I can sign a contract, and start collecting sweet, sweet advances. Mm, baby.
My iBook screen definitely has a pinched nerve, or something. Opening it past a certain angle, about 95 degrees or so, blackens the screen. This is workable, but annoying. Unlike the broken media bay latch, this problem has continuous effect on my iBook use (I'd like the screen to be facing my eyes, not my chest), and so I'll start seeking information on a fix now. Hum dee.
