So, there it is an Apple Mac configured to auto login is now showing a Login screen and it doesn’t seem to like any of the usernames and passwords that we could think of. In other words we’re locked out. I haven’t done an awful lot of Mac support, but I do know that it sits on top of a BSD core and because of this I knew we’d have some options. So, of course, the first thing I did was a quick search to try and get started… this post has a lot of helpful info about what to do if you’ve lost your administrator password (setting it up so you don’t have to enter a password for administrative tasks.) But most importantly it gave instructions for getting into single user mode.
Tag: osx
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VLC as a great multimedia video player/ network streamer
I sometimes forget that VLC is cross-platform. Given that linux is my primary platform I’ve used it quite a bit in playing around with streaming a video from one machine to another. Engadget has a great tutorial up on using VLC (Video Lan Client) to stream multimedia content from one pc to another. It’s really a great utility. It’s also available for a variety of platforms including Windows (even CE (PocketPC)), and Linux, OSX…
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$100 notebooks for schoolkids around the world likely will run linux
I was reading that Apple had offered free copies of OSX for the $100 laptop project aimed at bringing cheap laptops to schoolkids in the developing world and in some cases even here in the US. They don’t have the price down to $100 yet, but OSX was rejected because it isn’t open source, apparently the designers want an Open Source OS to work with so they can tweak and tinker with it.