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dribin.org
Personal blog · dribin.org/dave/blogprogrammingsystems
dribin.org is a personal blog at dribin.org about programming and systems. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link dribin.org's Mac OS X posts, including a keyboard-cost description, the Keychain, and where OS X stores account passwords. One commenter found a keyboard description easier to follow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Another description which I found easier to understand: http://www.dribin.org/dave/keyboard/one_html/
Comment linking /dave/keyboard/one_html/
on “Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000”Submitted Choosing a Distributed Version Control System as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOSX has keychain which is designed for these scenarios. http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/01/16/keychain... https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Secur...
Comment linking /dave/blog/archives/2006/01/16/keychain_cli/
on “A vim interface for gmail: Vmail”Submitted Overall Progress with Rsync as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks, as you demonstrated, it does not includes the password hash, searching on google I found that the password is stored in /var/db/shadow/hash/, a file for each user, I'm reading these: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2008/06/24/2 http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_pas... I will do some experiments at home, but I have no clue how to clean an OS X user's password.
Comment linking /dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/
on “How to Crack the Account Password on Any Operating System”Submitted Improving Zsh Performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI see two problems here. First, the Marketing Version (which is CFBundleShortVersionString) is set to a rather ugly SHA1. Which will now show up in your application's about window, in Finder, and other places. Nice, but not quite. You can't easily sidestep this by setting the SHA1 to CFBundleVersion, which is the internal build number. That's because you then break OSX's Launch Services. Why? Because LS expects a ve…
Comment linking /dave/blog/archives/2006/08/02/versioning_os_x_apps/
on “The Ultimate Solution For Xcode Auto-Versioning With Git”Submitted Git Merge Commit Messages as a story · 1 points
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