Yeah I know… another silly script/utility? Yes. I’m under no delusions of being a developer. These little apps/utilities that I’m posting are just basic bash shell/applescript hodgepodges with terribly designed icons. But… I end up writing these things because they’re just a big convenience for me. I find that they save me enough time to […]
From time to time, when occasion rises, I’ll find myself needing to quickly determine the actual problem, when I get a report of “the internet is down”. As you know (if you’re enough of an IT nerd to bother reading this), it’s important at the start of troubleshooting to know what the problem actually is […]
Security conscious and neurotic? So… this is what I do for fun on the weekends. I don’t know why it occurred to me, but for some reason it crossed my mind that if I were to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) on my computer for testing or troubleshooting of some kind, but forget to re-enable […]
It appears that macOS High Sierra (v10.13.0 & 10.13.1) has a major security bug. While I only just heard about this a few minutes ago, based on my testing so far, it appears that what’s happening specifically is that any attempt to authenticate as the “root” user will initially fail (as it should, as […]
Recently, while endeavoring to practice good security “hygiene”, I found myself annoyed with the multiple steps, and overly burdensome process I was having to go through, in order to simply generate, use, and save unique passwords for each new account I was creating, while also making sure these passwords were sufficiently complex. I was also, […]