Mora Did Nothing Wrong
I was appalled by the news that football commentator Jim Mora Sr., former head coach of the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts, had to resign from his job with Fox Sports Radio after making comments about Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. Mora, whose son Jim Mora Jr. is currently the Falcons head coach, agreed with his radio partner that Vick was a “coach killer”.
It worries me a little bit because my son is the head coach down there. But he’s a great athlete, my son likes him a lot, he’s a good kid. But he’s not a passer. And you need a passer at quarterback to be successful consistently in the National Football League. And he ain’t getting it done in that category.
Why does his resignation appall me so? Because all he did was his job. It’s his job to comment on NFL related issues. So there was absolutely nothing wrong with his comments. People may or may not agree with him but that’s alright. He wasn’t being paid to have everyone agree with him. He was being paid to comment about the NFL.
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Tired of Norton Anti-Spam
I’ve been using Norton Anti-Spam the last couple of years and I’m beginning to tire of it. Can anybody who reads this recommend a spam filter to replace it?
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Looking For Chicken
I am looking for any recordings of “Weird” Al Yankovic singing “Chicken Pot Pie”. This song is a parody of Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die”. McCartney, a strict vegetarian, didn’t give permission for this parody so it was never recorded on an album but Yankovic sings it in concert sometimes. If anybody has any idea where I can get hold of this song then please let me know either by email or via the comments link below.
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Yahoo Password Possibly Hacked Again?
An interesting happened to me yesterday while I was working. My Yahoo Instant Messenger logged me out and popped up a message that said it logged me off because another machine had logged in with my ID. I was alarmed by this. Had someone hacked my Yahoo password and logged in as me?
Without hesitation I launched Firefox and went to Yahoo to change my password. If my fears were true then I wanted to change my password before the hacker would. As luck would have it this worked.
I don’t know if my account was hacked or not. This could have just been a fluke occurrence. Perhaps a bug in Yahoo Instant Messenger or a blip in my internet connection that triggered the message. But I wasn’t going to take any chances. And neither should anyone else who gets this message without a good reason for it.
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Mac Password Hacking
I had an interesting task at work last week. I had to prepare a Mac for some testing. Doesn’t sound like much but the Mac had been used by a former employee and nobody knew the password he had used on it. I tried various possibilities based on my knowledge of him, his family, his work and his interests. None of them worked. This called for a more subversive approach.
I did some searching on Google and found a page that discusses how to hack passwords on a Mac. Various methods suggested on several pages of comments to that page had failed. Figuring I had nothing to lose I decided to try mixing the methods I had found until I found one that worked. I figured if I hosed the machine at this point it wouldn’t be a big deal. The machine was useless to me in it’s current state anyway so I would have had no qualms about clearing the hard drive and starting from scratch. The only reason I was still going at it was for the challenge. So off I went.
After only about 2 or 3 tries I came across the following method that worked for me:
- Click Restart at the login window
- While the computer is restarting, hold down “Command-S” until you see text scrolling through the window. This boots the computer into single user mode.
- At the Localhost% prompt type:
/sbin/fsck -y [Enter]
/sbin/mount -uw / [Enter]
sh /etc/rc[Enter] - When the Localhost% prompt reappears, type:
passwd [username]
(Replace [username] with the username you want to change and leave out the brackets.)
You will then be prompted to type a new password for this user 2 times.
- After entering the new password, type:
reboot
- At the login window, enter the username with the new password.
Voila!
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