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Securing Mac OS X Tiger

Posted by Zonk on from the intense-lockdown dept.

Stephen de Vries writes "Mac OS X is one of the most secure default installations of any OS. But it is still possible to lock the OS down further, in order to meet corporate security guidelines or to securely use network services. Corsaire has released a guide to Securing Mac OS X Tiger (long pdf) which addresses the new security features introduced through Tiger and presents some security good practice guidelines."

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  1. Re:Most secure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Durr, I make really quick but completely vacuous and inane posts to a new story to get karma.

    Durr.

  2. Mac Mini and suck-ness... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I totally agree. I love my mini... well, let me ammend that: I love OS X and the way the mini looks. The base model (originally) only had 256 mb of RAM. Now normally that wouldn't be the biggest deal in the world, but when coupled with a 4200 RPM hard drive, you get some serious slow-downs whenever it hits the swap file.

    Best ways to make a mini better:

    Get either an external firewire drive with a huge cache or a 7200 RPM internal 2.5" drive (the speeds for external firewire beat the stock internal drive, how pathetic is that?!)

    Upgrade the RAM

    Change the minijumper on the logic board to overclock the processor

    It's a great machine after that. Apple shouldn't have crippled it the way they did.

  3. Re:"long pdf"? by Gropo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It seems to be a running belief that putting one's poorly thought out, poorly edited words into pdf forms makes it professional - just like the big boys!
    Well how does THIS make you feel?
    --
    I hate Grammar Nazi's
  4. Re:"long pdf"? by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus...it's like I'm a published author now! I think I'm going to print that out, frame it, and put it on the wall in the entryway!

  5. Re:"long pdf"? by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this supposed to be a joke?

    I'd say the same about your reply.

    Information published on the web is generally published in a crazy format called HTML (at a MINIMUM in both, so those who want to take it offline can resort to PDF without hindering accessibility). Or are you reading Slashdot in PDF documents?