Mac
i know this has been blogged all over the interwebs..
but Leopards default icon for windows machines has to rank up there with dvwssr.dll
(yeah.. thats a BSOD)
/mh
ok.. who’s old enough? what was the similarity between this and dvwssr.dll ?
Mind Control, Big Cats, Feynman && kiosks…
Aka… A good weekend..
The weekend got off to a slow start, when Amazon claimed it would take a little longer than planned to ship us the “Web Application Hackers Handbook”. Fortunately it picked up after that..
The first ray of light was finding a new strange bug on a huge application that smells a lot like full remote code execution.. Then the office had a power-outage and i felt the rage building.. drove to the office to collect my stuff mumbling statements related to 3rd world and feeling sorry for myself, but.. i needed to complete a report and needed to be in JHB later that night, so decided to stop off in Sandton City where i could work for a bit (exclusive books: coffee + gprs + deels could enjoy herself too)
9 days to leopard…
You can almost taste the fanboy excitement.. but im guessing there will also be the mandatory rush for the first big bug announcements..
There are a few things that look cool.. Apple joins the right decade with ASLR and native multi-desktops looks cool.. DTrace on osx seems like a winner too..
Of course, theres also the much touted: “Back to my mac” feature:
[watch video of it in action]
VMWare Fusion, i love you not, i love you…
ok.. some of you in the office would have heard me whine when vmware fusion recently started taking my whole machine down occasionally. The joy of it being the whole machine is that ive lost my firefox profile, and managed to turf my osx preferences twice since this started happening..
Through meticulous checking i tracked down that the problem started “the day i blogged about how much i love vmware fusion”. i spent a lot of time wondering if i rm’d the post if it would fix the problem…
VMware for OSX (Fusion) – Beta 4
VMware have just released beta4 of its Fusion product for OSX.
The initial beta was hard to justify and a little flaky, which allowed Parallels to take an early lead. We still have people in the office who swear by parallels.. But.. in my book VMware has just been such a life saver since we first started making heavy use of it (about 6 years ago) that i figured it was worth sticking it out..
Windows filesharing on OSX still vulnerable…
Aaron Adams over at SYMANTEC, did a quick check on the version of Samba running on currently up to date OSX machines and found that the Macs were still running 3.0.10. He did a quick mod on the existing Metasploit module and has reliable code execution going..
If you are running OSX, you probably want to make sure your samba isnt exposed while you grab the latest source and build..
/mh
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