My love for Apple and especially MacOS does not run deep. Actually, it is essentially nonexistent. I was recently reminded of the myriad reasons why I don’t like MacOS, and one of them is that the OS should never stand in the way of what the operator wants to do. In this case, I found …
Tag: security
Nov 17 2017
Python’s M2Crypto fails to compile
When updating my music server, I ran into a compilation error on Python’s M2Crypto. The error message was a little bit strange and not directly related to the package itself: fatal error: openssl/ecdsa.h: No such file or directory Obviously, that error is generated from OpenSSL and not directly within M2Crypto. Remembering that there are some …
Feb 02 2016
Changing Windows account passwords and enabling the local Windows admin account
Recently, I needed to get into a client’s computer (running Windows 8) in order to fix a few problems. Having forgotten to ask for a most obvious piece of needed information (the account password), I just decided to get around it. The account that he was using on a daily basis was tied to a …