Mac for a public computer

Currently we have a public computer from our service provider for a public computer at our hotel. We have so many issues with the security on the Windows XP computer that it's just a pain to use. Just wondering, does Mac have a way if a guest logs into the "guest" account, that when they log out it will delete all browsing history/saved documents for security/privacy?

w0by,
by default the guest account has no "home" folder in which to store these files. They are stored temporarily until the guest logs out at which point the files are deleted. Check out http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15600.html as it explains the guest account more thoroughly.
Also, for added security, you could log into an administrator account after using the guest account and erase the free space from the hard drive. This would wipe out the guest's temporary home folder for good. Just make sure to use the secure zero out data option.

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import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
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if (key.length == 16) {
byte[] key24 = new byte[24];
System.arraycopy(key,0,key24,0,16);
System.arraycopy(key,0,key24,16,8);
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} else {
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byte[] temp;
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temp = cbcDES.doFinal(data);
byte[] signature = new byte[8];
System.arraycopy(temp, temp.length - 8, signature, 0, signature.length);
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public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
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user4928701 wrote:
I don't know the format you are mentioning, I'm using oberthur v7 card.
I realized that the mistake was in the padding of "8482010010f617a4cb3680f3378000000000000000000000";
I'm supposed to pad only with 800000 as that gives a number of bytes in multiple of 8, but I had added yet another 0 sequence of 8 bytes.
The format for external authenticate is 5 byte command + host cryptogram + C-MAC value for the padded sequence computed using S-MAC key.Then you are using the wrong code. The code you posted is for generating the host cryptogram. The code for the MAC for each command (including EXT AUTH) is different.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.
9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report what happened. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
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Building a mac for editing?

It is time for me to get a new computer for video editing and from what I hear it is much cheaper to buy the parts and build a computer that will end up being faster and better for video editing. At my last internship the owners built their macs for $800-$900 and they could edit any HD footage using FCP/After Effects and Maya flawlessly. When I try to search this all I see is "hackintosh" and PC's with mac operating systems. Is there a way to build a mac? anyone have a good tutorial or parts list? Is it a good idea to use PC pieces? Would I be better off just buying the 1200$ iMac from best buy? i currently own the older version of this iMac and it cant even watch HD footage in FCP.

Being that this is Apple's discussion boards, it's probably inappropriate to get into a discussion about unauthorized 'hackintosh' solutions. But if you're serious about video production, and need something that you can depend on, then you definitely want to stick with an actual Mac. While some of the hackintosh users have had great experiences building their own boxes, they have universally all had to do a lot of additional tinkering, and had problems with compatibility and updates over the life of their machine. That may not be so bad if you're just goofing around and don't depend on the machine for anything, but it's an absolute dealbreaker if you use the machine professionally.
The good news is that unless you're doing some seriously advanced stuff, you can do a lot on a fairly modest Mac these days. 15 or 17 inch MacBook Pro's (paired with an external drive), and an iMac (ideally also paired with an external drive) are solid solutions even when editing HD video (assuming you're not doing anything too effects-heavy), and a Mac Pro (which can easily accommmodate several internal drives) can handle just about anything you can throw at it. While Mac Pro's are expensive to start and just skyrocket upwards, they're extremely powerful and reliable (designed from the ground up to be 'always-on') and even the base model is pretty capable for video production.
Whichever route you go, opt for upgraded graphics/GPU (if it's available), and you'll want to aim for 8GB RAM (on iMac and Mac Pro, you have the option of 16GB or more). A second hard drive is also highly recommended (for your cache and data files).
Good luck!

How do I clear my bookmarks from the Firefox browser on a public computer, having synced my account to see them during a browsing session?

Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
1. I use Firefox on someone else's computer and sync my account to retrieve my bookmarks. (This works.)
2. After finishing my browsing session, I sign out of my Firefox account, and my bookmarks are cleared from the Firefox browser. (This doesn't work.)
I have tried the following options:
a) Open menu > Options > Sync > untick 'Bookmarks' > OK. This doesn't clear my bookmarks from the browser, not even if I close and open it again. They all show up.
b) Open menu > Options > Sync > under Firefox Account click 'Disconnect' > OK. This doesn't clear my bookmarks either, only necessecitates me signing in to sync again.
I understand there used to be an option to 'unlink this device', which may clear all data including bookmarks, but I can't find it anywhere. I've also read an article suggesting clearing bookmarks etc can be achieved by deleting your Firefox profile from a device, but I fear this will delete global options such that I won't be able to access them on my home computer.
Surely there must be a way of siging in then out of the Firefox account on different computers, like you can with e-mail, without leaving all your bookmarks etc open for every other user to see afterwards? I'm transfering to Firefox from Chrome precisely because it doesn't have the capacity to do this (scarily), and to clear my bookmarks from a friends' browser, I had to uninstall Chrome on her computer!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. Sync wasn't intended to be used in that manner. You would be better off carrying around a USB Flash Stick with Portable Firefox for use on "strange" PC's.
2. You could open the "Library" {Ctrl + Shift + B} and highlight all those bookmarks and then delete them all at once. But that would also delete all the other bookmarks, and it isn't foolproof. All another person would need to do it to '''''restore''''' a bookmark backup file that has your bookmarks. Beyond that, a new Profile could be created and then the current Profile deleted; but that's "messing with" someone else's computer - an action that is worthy of terminating a friendship over, IMO.
And if that "public" computer was set up properly, Sync should have been disabled.

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