Thursday, March 29 2001

Peter Swanson : Maus Culture

"As I survey the new landscape of adult comics—and much as I admire the achievements of Spiegelman, Sacco, and the rest—I nevertheless hope there is still room for comic books about mutant vigilantes." With the possible exception of Cerebus, superhero comics always have the best sound effects. Chud!

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Geeks R Us : "The file is locked!

Yes it seems that the Finder locking is in a layer lower than the Unix POSIX layer, so not even root can muck with files that are locked. Simply select the file in the Finder, choose Show Info from the File menu, and uncheck 'Locked'. " Leave it to Apple to NIH-ify the whole idea of root... Meanwhile, I sent the link to some unix-weenies, smarter than I, that I work with and this is a snippet of the discussion to date:

"There does exist another layer of markers on the filesytem, that you don't tend to run into very often. [T] is encouraging you to read the man page for the ufs tool, chflags, which gives access to things like "immutable flag". I suspect [T] has learned that "finder info" is actually working on filesystem flags.

"You can further make things painful by running most BSD's in a state where flags cannot be changed (I've never done it). This means that if you install your new kernel in single user, flag it as immutable, and run the system in secure mode: you will force any intruder to put the system into single user before /kernel (and any other binaries so flagged) can be changed or deleted."

see also : man chflags

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Dan O'Connor : The FreeBSD Cheat Sheets

"are notes that I have made to myself, so that I could re-create what I have done in the event of a catastrophic failure of either the hardware or me. I have made no attempt to explain the 'why' behind the actions, or to take into account all the possible configuration options, as there are other sources available which cover such topics in-depth."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is spry

| source : web1913 | Spry \Spry\, a. [Compar. {Sprier} or {Spryer}; superl. {Spriest} or {Spryest}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. sprygg lively, skittish, and E. sprag.] Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a cricket. --S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. --Emerson. | source : wn | spry adj : moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: {agile}, {nimble}, {quick}] | source : gazetteer | Spry, PA (CDP, FIPS 73528) Location: 39.91250 N, 76.68753 W Population (1990): 4271 (1905 housing units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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