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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #119: Troubleshooting Tiger, Follow-ups, and Password Security

by , 10:25 PM EDT, September 10th, 2007

Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, September 10th, 2007

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Dave and John help you troubleshoot Tiger, revive a non-booting Mac, and discuss the merits of Mac OS X password security.

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This podcast is recorded on a Mac using Audio Hijack Pro. As for equipment, John is using a Behringer C-1 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave's end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is used, and the whole show is mixed "live" through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Ultimate Ears UE-7 Ambient earphones. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael, aka Computernap, then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it's mixed on Episode #32.

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Close Name:quatre Posts: 7 Joined: 03 May 2007
Subject: 8 character pswd

Were they referring to the master password, the one that you set in the Security pane? Because my user account password and admin account password are identical except that the admin password has 3 extra digits for a total of 8 digits and 11 digits respectively. I cannot login to the admin account unless I type in all 11 digits, so I don't understand the claim that the OS ignores all input after the first 8 digits.

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