Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-03-01 Thread Ryan Stewart
Disklock looks interesting. Multiple users under 9.2.2 also looks OK. Any comments about the reliability/security of the above? F. Multiple users under 9.2.2 is kind of a childs toy of security compaired to a firmware protected multi-user OSX computer. Ryan -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-03-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
BTW, I completed some researches about turning on the screen saver whenever the computer is put to sleep. I don't have all the answers to my questions, but it looks like there are hooks to do something about it. Now, before I spend more time, would there be people interested in that little

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-03-01 Thread Eric D.
on 1/3/03 12:56 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, before I spend more time, would there be people interested in that little extension to the screen saver? Basically, right now, in OS X, if you put your computer to sleep while the screen saver is not active, then waking the

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-28 Thread Frank Cornew
And, on my Pismo/400 the same sequence of 9.2.1 9.2.2 update didn't install that control panel ( I found a tech note warning that use of the control panel would require the drive to be put into a PowerBook that could boot with that feature and require that it be removed (I think)). L8r, Eric.

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread dograt
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 02:17 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I think the point that the original poster was trying to make was that activating the screen saver every time the computer was put to sleep was just a way to secure the computer a little bit more than by having no

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Eric D.
on 27/2/03 4:52 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most/many unix distributions have a similar feature. in fact, booting any UNIX into Single User mode (doing this varies widely by vendor, ranging from horribly simple to horrifically difficult) gives SuperUser access to the entire

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Ryan Coleman
At 6:25 PM -0500 2/27/03, Eric D. wrote: on 27/2/03 4:52 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most/many unix distributions have a similar feature. in fact, booting any UNIX into Single User mode (doing this varies widely by vendor, ranging from horribly simple to horrifically

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Eric D.
on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control Panel utility that was lost and never regained after 9.0.4 when From what I

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Eric D.
on 27/2/03 6:34 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, superusers, when they log in via SSH, by default can do anything. It is the equivalent of sitting at the box and logging in as that super user. FreeBSD is a little different, though. You cannot SSH as a superuser (without

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread dograt
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Eric D. wrote: on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control Panel utility that

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 27/02/03 18:45, Eric D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control Panel utility that was lost

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread dograt
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 04:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 27/02/03 18:45, Eric D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of us sadly miss the Password

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Eric D.
on 27/2/03 7:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I understand that's a Pismo-only thing. My girlfriend's Lombard 9.2.2 can be set to request a password on boot (never experimented from sleep though). No, no, no. I respectfully beg to differ. For one thing, my old

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-27 Thread Eric D.
on 27/2/03 9:27 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking we're talking about different things -- the Password Security thingy I'm referring to is a control panel (installed by the default OS 9.2.1/9.2.2 update on my gf's Lombard/333) which sets a password which is requested at

Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-02-26 Thread Eric D.
One quirk my Pismo is haunted with is a blank screen saver on wake up. I like the Flurry (yes, it's CPU intensive but it looks cool) and 3/4 of the times on wake-up Flurry displays. But the other 1/4 I get a blank (white) screen instead. Somehow or other the screen saver just stops. Password