I finally got around to installing a demo of Aperture. Since I’m under spec. for the app, I had to firstly hack the Installer (not easy, I had to copy the ApertureTrial.mpkg ‘file’ (it’s a package, which is really a folder) to the disk, and then go inside it. I then had to enter the Contents folder, and finally edit the ApertureTrial.dist file.
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Daily Archive
I needed a nice random password, something that is fairly strong. Enter /dev/urandom and md5:
$ head /dev/urandom | md5
e98afcb4f093bafa0cc5f90f150df8b7
Obviously, that’s not the password I used.
Problems with this method: if you don’t write it down, or save it somewhere, you will not be able to get it back. Second, it only uses a small subset of the ascii codeset - 0123456789abcdef. I’ve tried to come up with something that converts this to ascii, but I’m still working on it. You’d also likely want to ignore 8-bit values, as these can be extended characters. If you ever needed to type this in, it’s sometimes hard to do.
The big advantage is that this is a totally random method, and you won’t get the same code twice.