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wildmac said:
If you leave the default HD name "Macintosh HD" as part of the file path, it gives those with nefarious intents the clear path to your directory structure. Best to rename it.
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This is not actually true. Whatever you name the drive the path to it is simply "/"

(Not as much of an issue these days, as there are other routes to the files, but still good practice).
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Perhaps this was an issue in the OS9 and earlier days?
 
I only name my drive volumes. They are all related to Monty Python or Hitchhiker:

Dent
Prefect
Trillian
Zaphod
Marvin
Infinite Improbability

Mr. Creosote
Wafer-thin
(These were when I was using just a 4TB HDD with an SSD.)

I have options for more names, such as Slartibartfast. :)
 
I only have one computer that has a name for its uses rather than who it's for.

It does all my FTP, auto copies to main server, extracts and packs all my archives, SMB, gets hammered to hell and has a hard life. This poor little HP 8000 elite (the third - two earlier SFF HP's died from exhaustion) is naked, for data/system image recovery plugging in hard disks very often which can take days with MacDrive for HFS+ and Linux too. It does all the nasty time consuming stuff I don't want the others to do and doesn't cost much to replace.

Dogsbody!
 
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wildmac said:
If you leave the default HD name "Macintosh HD" as part of the file path, it gives those with nefarious intents the clear path to your directory structure. Best to rename it. (Not as much of an issue these days, as there are other routes to the files, but still good practice).
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Nah.... If they can access your crap that way, you're already pwned no matter what your HD volume name is. Besides, the nefarious dude could just read the contents of /Volumes
 
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I can't bring myself to name anything "The Heart of Gold", though. It just sounds too corny. :p

And that symbol makes me think of a song...

"I don't wanna be the president, I wanna be the Pope.
I don't wanna be the side effect, I wanna be the dope."
 
wonderspark said:
I can't bring myself to name anything "The Heart of Gold", though. It just sounds too corny. :p

And that symbol makes me think of a song...

"I don't wanna be the president, I wanna be the Pope.
I don't wanna be the side effect, I wanna be the dope."
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:) i was pretty positive some of you all would get it.. thanks for the confirmation.
 
Right now it just says Mac Pro but My old Mac Pro's name was KAI and I may just use it again. I'm also leaning toward Dorian. It's only been a week. :p
 
Nugget said:
This is not actually true. Whatever you name the drive the path to it is simply "/"

Perhaps this was an issue in the OS9 and earlier days?
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Yeah, I think you're right. These days it is just "/" while back in the OS9 days, the name of the hard drive was indeed part of the directory path, so changing the drive name was an easy security measure.

Guess I'm old school.. (get off my lawn!! :D )
 
The Great Hyperlobic Omnicognate Neutron Wrangler

... probably won't fit in that teeny space though.

Award self 5 bonus points if you know where that's from! :)
 
calaverasgrande said:
OS9 (oops it was still System 9 wasn't it?) was pretty bad.
I remember a few times when the whole Mac Lab at school got shut down from a virus. Remember when Macs got viruses all the time?
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Those days pretty abruptly stopped (IIRC) with System 7.1, some seven years before System 9 came along…
 
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