• cloud,  Social Networking

    Goodbye Google Wave

    Looks like Wave will be gone as of January. From Google: Dear Wavers, More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Shadow Mounting with hdiutil

    I recently put up a post on using hdiutil to create disk images in Mac OS X.  To take that a step further let’s look at leverage a shadow mount. A shadow mount allows you to mount a read only file system (from a dmg) as a read-write structure without altering the original image, similar to how NetBoot works. This is useful for a variety of instances, most of all, forensically. To mount an image is going to be similar to how we did so previously, simply use the It is possible the volume was dismounted dirty and Mac OS X needs to do a consistency check on the file…