“Gaining root access to a Mac is ‘easy pickings,’ according to an individual who in less than 30 minutes won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.” I’m sure this is going to spread like wildfire across the Internets today, but let me [...]
Apple’s hardware based platform-protection for Mac OS X has been broken. What has it been, a month or less since the hardware was released? Artificially restricting people from something they want (enough to actually buy it, even!) combined with an interesting challenge for hackers by using new protection methods is a good way to get [...]
I’d just like to say that there are not enough “How I Installed OS X on my Dell.” Here’s my contribution, in twelve easy steps.
1) Get tiger-x86.tar.bz2
2) Unpack tiger-x86-flat.img to a separate NTFS hard drive
3) Load up the system with the Knoppix Live CD
4) If the drive from step 2 is external, attach it and let Knoppix automount it
5) Open up a terminal
6) When it has finished copying, reboot and select the drive you want as the startup from the BIOS or boot menu