Archive for April, 2009

Installing your own Mac OS X – on a non Apple

Posted by BigWhale on 2009/04/30 in Software | 1 comment

Bite Me!

Image representing Apple as depicted in CrunchBase
Image via CrunchBase

Trolling and bashing on the internet forums can be fun, but the real fun starts when you have arguments that back you up. Imagine one linux zealot like me engaging in pissing contests with Apple fanboys, Mac users, OS X enthusiasts. The really bad way of losing an argument is due to: “How can you know, you never used it”.

What I did with Vista, I had to do with OS X too. I’ve gone and install OS X on my PC, PC that was not sold by Apple and shouldn’t run OS X anyway. Do you want to know how I did it? My experiences, the nitpicking, the problems and the joys of using OS X? Read on!

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Losing your password in Ubuntu Linux

Posted by BigWhale on 2009/04/29 in Linux | 0 comments
A logo bearing strong resemblance to the Ubunt...

Image via Wikipedia

Every now and then people lose or forget their passwords. Sometimes you’ll have this need to hack into someone’s computer. Well, this is a basic tutorial on how to change your password even if you can’t login in the system since you forgot your password.

We’ll need:

  • Running computer with Ubuntu and no known passwords
  • Ubuntu 8.10 Bootable Live CD
  • Dumb user like me who forgot his own password

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