Archive for November, 2007

Enabling Root in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Monday, November 26th, 2007

When troubleshooting your Mac, it helps if you can log in as a different user. Instead of creating a new user, you can enable Root. Here’s how:

Open Finder,
Browse to Applications -> Utilities,
Open Directory Utility,
Click the lock to make changes,
Enter your password when prompted,
From the Taskbar go to Edit -> Enable Root User,
Enter a new password [...]

Forgotten Anniversary

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I’ve been quite busy of late. So much so that I didn’t realise that this blog is now over a year old. I wrote my first post on the 2nd November 2006. In fairness it wasn’t much of a post.

In my first year, I posted 255 times, about everything from Apple to Work, passing Religion, [...]

Using WordPress Pages to Link to Another Site

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

You may have noticed that since I changed the theme for this site that there is now a page called “paulmc.org” that directly links back to the root of my website. Unlike a normal WordPress page, this page links to a document completely outside the WordPress hierarchy.

I’m sure that it would be possible to hard-code [...]

Theme Update

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

I had a couple of days off, so I decided I’d do something constructive with my time. Instead of doing “real work”, I spent the day trying out new themes for my websites.

So what do you think?

Insomnia and Boredom

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

I can’t sleep and I’m bored. The perfect time to browse YouTube. Enjoy.

First there’s a trailer for 300. Family Guy style:

Then there’s Johnny Cash doing a Nine Inch Nails song:

Followed by Elvis:

And then George Harrison’s “My Guitar Gently Weeps” performed on a ukulele:

Possibly the only band with more members than songs:

The Matrix South Park trailer: