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It was in High School that my passion for Technology, especially computing, was the most prominent. While I had dabbled with a few PC's and learned BASIC before then, it was High School I became intrigued even more, and was involved in setting up over 300 Macintosh PC's, from LC575's, PowerMac' to iMac's (Bondi Blue ones too!), and some G3's.

Having that experience definitely changed my Life Path, and opened a few more doors than would have been otherwise.

Update: Then again, the first PC I used at Primary School was an Apple IIe. It was the bomb.

And for that, I say: Steve, Thanks.

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, passed today.

Owning a macbook air may make you a terrorist.

[HTML_REMOVED][Do note, this isn't the easiest option, but it is the option that works when you do not have a Mac OS Install CD lying around.][HTML_REMOVED]

A friend brang over his iBook today, after forgetting his username's password, and thus being unable to login. I figured this would be easy. Boot into single-user mode, reset the username's password, reboot.

I was so wrong.

Booting into single-user mode wasn't that hard. Hold command + s on startup. (Command for any normal mac user is the apple-cloverleaf key right next to the spacebar).

After booting in and trying to get niutil to talk to me (which i found i had to use), it refused to listen.

Playing around with a few google methods for a while, lead me to this page, Which is fine if you use Mac OS X 10.2 or lower, but useless with any newer version.

So a bit more googling and I get this even better page.

It explains that i need to run a few scripts and start the netinfo daemon. Fair enough.

Then that didn't work, because it couldn't find the user.

Great.

Then I realise that the username contains an [HTML_REMOVED]i[HTML_REMOVED] not an [HTML_REMOVED]l[HTML_REMOVED] and that solves that. Reboot and the user can now log in. I'm happy, the friend is happy, and I decided I want to keep my gentoo box. :-)

(PS. Before i noticed the username had that i, I tried about 20 different other ways to change it. Maybe that's why i'm annoyed with it :p)