Negative Space: Macintosh
- After Authentication
- Keep your System Preferences padlocks locked unless you are in the process of making changes.
- AppleScript Basics
- Basic AppleScript to automate the use of your Macintosh.
- Automatic startup items
- One of the folders that can go in /System/Library/ and /Library/ is “StartupItems”. StartupItems contains scripts that run when the computer starts up. These scripts run as root.
- Breaking In to Mac OS X
- Sometimes Apple’s security appears to be akin to the Roman defensive structure: heavily arm the border, but leave the interior unprotected. It works, as long as no one gets through the border. But once they break through, there are some relatively simple ways to gain root access.
- Case matters on the web
- When you use a Macintosh, you’re used to things being relatively straightforward and simple. The web, unfortunately, is based on a strange set of standards where Occam’s razor is a bloody and dull weapon.
- Create a new Admin account
- If you use an administrative account as your regular login account, anyone with a few seconds of access to your computer can create a new administrative account
- Negative Space Software Select
- Recommended software to make serving and browsing easier.
- Persistence of Vision Macintosh Basics
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This tutorial will get you acquainted with the most important preferences and menu items in Persistence of Vision for the Mac, including editing your scene file and creating animations.
- POV-Ray Animation
- Normally, you’ll probably want to create your animations frame by frame. But for simple animations, you can have POV-Ray create the movie directly.
- POV-Ray Application Preferences
- You’ll need to set some items in the preferences before you start using POV-Ray.
- POV-Ray Scene Preferences
- The scene’s preferences are where you’ll control most of POV-Ray’s behavior: how big your image will be, whether it is animated, and how high its quality is.
- Scene Quality
- You can greatly increase scene quality by turning on anti-aliasing.
- Scene Size
- The size of your image directly affects the time it takes to render.
- Single User Mode
- If someone has physical access to your computer, they can do a lot more; you can’t ultimately protect yourself from all physical-access hacks, but you can make them more time-consuming.
- Waiting for sudo
- Sudo remains enabled for five minutes from anywhere on your system after you use it.
- Webserving on Eight Megabytes a Day
- This article is a blast from the past. Yes, I used to run Negative Space on eight megabytes. Over a 14.4 modem. Uphill. Both ways. Presumably you could still do it, but it would have to be static files for the most part (and you might want to hook that Macintosh up to Ethernet).