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Feb 22

I’m linking to this really just for the sake of coming back to it later. Typically, when I encounter a machine that I need admin access to and the user doesn’t know the password, I just reset the admin’s account password by booting off a Leopard Installer DVD, but here’s an way to add an account to the admin group, during Single-User-Mode boot, which achieves the same purpose.

Feb 21

ifixit_mbp_unibody_take_apartiFixit takes apart the 17″ MacBook Pro Unibody. I can’t wait to get some of these new Unibody laptops so I can try my hand at taking one apart. I’m really liking the engineering, based on these iFixit photos. It actually looks quite trivial to replace the “non-replaceable” battery.