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Why large USB SATA drives suck!

By Bill Plein | December 22, 2010
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For the second time in the last 6 months I’ve got forensic evidence that not only does silent data corruption happen in real life, but also that “green” drives, hidden inside external USB enclosures, seem to be at higher risk than native attached SATA. I’ve seen this with two different enclosures, with different SATA drives,… Read More »

Category: Other Stuff Tags: Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Storage, ZFS

Sniffing Wi-Fi traffic on Mac OS X with a built in utility

By Bill Plein | December 5, 2010
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Check out Meitar Moscovitz’s blog, specifically the article about how to use the Mac OS X terminal session to sniff WiFi and output standard (Wireshark compatible) .CAP files. Cool stuff!

Category: How-To Other Blogs Tags: HowTo, macOS, Wi-Fi

How To Write To Windows NTFS Drives In Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”

By Bill Plein | November 29, 2010
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If you use both Mac and Windows, check out Stephen Foskett’s blog on How To Write To Windows NTFS Drives In Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”.

Category: How-To Other Blogs Tags: HowTo, macOS

How to activate your Mac shared printer for AirPrint

By Bill Plein | November 28, 2010
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I just got back from vacation and upgraded my iPad to IOS 4.2 And quickly found out that AirPrint is only supported with a limited set of printers today. A bit of browsing around, I found AirPrint Hacktivator. It’s based on some investigation done by several people who used old Apple files from pre-releases of… Read More »

Category: How-To Tags: iOS, iPad, macOS

Blogging getting ugly, says Chris Mellor. I agree

By Bill Plein | October 29, 2010
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Chris Mellor, writing at The Register has commented on a spat between two EMC bloggers and an analyst. It seems to me that good technology companies should have more ~positive~ things to talk about than throwing FUD against competitors. It also seems to me that tech vendor bloggers that are willing to hop into the mud… Read More »

Category: Other Blogs Tags: EMC
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