Tricky forensic hard drive acquisition of an iMac

2015-04-30

Recently I had to do a forensic acquisition of an iMac hard drive, and it presented many obstacles. The three basic ways to do an acquisition are: 1) Remove the hard drive and use high speed dedicated imaging hardware such as a Logicube, or from a forensic workstation through a write-blocker. 2)…

tech: mac, forensics, ftk

Upgrade your Inspiron 8600 to Windows 7 with this NVidia FX Go5200 video driver

2011-06-01

I have an old Dell Inspiron 8600 I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7. The problem was that there is no current video driver for the Inspiron’s Nvidia Geforce FX Go5200 video chip. Even the driver Dell is offering for download for Windows XP is the wrong one and causes all sorts of problems. There…

tech: windows

Unison 2.40.61 binary for Nexenta Core Platform 3

2011-04-01

I have compiled a Unison 2.40.61 binary (file-syncronization tool) for Nexenta (Solaris/Linux hybrid OS with ZFS) and made it available for download here. Nexenta Core Platform 3 is a Solaris-like operating system that has an OpenSolaris (RIP) kernel and GNU/Linux user-land commands layered on top.…

tech: unison, zfs, solaris, ocaml

ZFS capable operating systems

2010-11-16

With today’s announcement of Oracle Solaris Express 11 our choices for running a ZFS capable Operating System just got even more confusing. I wasn’t able to find a list of the build numbers these Operating Systems are based on all in one place, so I’m going to keep a chart of the…

tech: zfs, solaris