December 3, 2004

• Useful list of Mac OS X ‘hacking’ tools.

  And here’s a nifty utility called iWipe which basically writes a file as big as free space on your hard drive, writing over it a few times with random data and specific bit patterns designed to prevent anyone from recovering old data from it. (It then deletes the file, of course.) There are a few utilities like this, but the other Mac-specific ones either cost lots of money or only ‘shred’ deleted files, and the open source versions come from the land of BSD and linux, and I don’t want to trust my HFS+ filesystem to them.

  Also, on a whim I decided to see if LaCie had any firmware updates newer than the one that killed my LaCie hard drive. Guess what? They do! And guess what else: The hard drive enclosure works properly now. Too bad it killed the hard drive itself back when it had BAD FIRMWARE IN IT.

  LaCie gets no more money from me for anything.

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