Sam’s random musings

Disk Inventory X 1.0:

Tjark Derlien’s excellent freeware Disk Inventory X is now at version 1.0:

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called “treemaps”.

If you’ve ever wondered were all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

Highly recommended.

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This is cool, useful maybe, but for visual data display, cool

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Securing Mac OS X Tiger:

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.”

A strong overview of os x security practices. Worth a read if for nothing else then to ponder the things one should do, if your machine is important…

(Via Slashdot.)

MacSlash | The Tipping Point:

The Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses. The graphic illustrates how Apple has created a bridge from high-end to low-end, with price structures that ultimately are leading to rapidly increased adoption of the platform by PC users who have been enticed by low-cost iPods.

An old graphic but does show the area of growth that apple is targeting now.

(Via Mac Slash.)

Some Launchd Recipes:

A principal misconception I’ve encountered among people who have heard of launchd or looked into it and chose some other solution is that they seem to think it’s just for making startup items. It’s quite different.

Launchd allows for starting a program under any of these conditions:

• configuration file is loaded
• time has elapsed (repeating)
• time has arrived (scheduled)
• program exit (to keep a program running)
• network connection (inetd-style)
• file is modified
• file exists in a queue directory

Good stuff again, Liking this site. I am getting geekier

(Via Mac Geekery - Get your geek on..)

10.4: Use Access Control Lists for fine-grained control:

Not really so much a hint, but a heads-up about a new feature in HFS+, Access Control Lists (ACLs). One thing that HFS+ has been missing is fine-grained access control to files and folders. It was possible to work around this…

need to come back to and read, comments later

(Via Mac OS X Hints.)

Siracusa’s Mac OS X 10.4 Magnum Opus:

The Tiger release parties can officially start: John Siracusa’s review of Mac OS X 10.4 is up at Ars Technica. I was lucky enough to help proof-read a draft last week, and it’s just as good as his previous reviews: well written, keenly observed, technically dense, and a lot of fun.

At over 40,000 words, it’s more like a short book than a long article. And people say I write long articles? Required reading for any serious Mac user.

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DevShed: Reconsidering PHP Variables:

PHP helps you to quickly build big applications and many times, its easy to neglect the security matter. Its easy to believe that security breaches could not happen to your software. But what if it does happen? For this reason, security in your applications should be kept in consideration from the beginning.

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

An Introduction to diskspacemonitor on OS X Server:

Running out of space on OS X is bad, like real bad.Read on to find out more about the built-in facilities that will prevent you from running out of space.

Going to need this, don’t want to loose.

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