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Data Recovery & Destruction

• NVMe Sanitize
  created: 2018.09.13, updated: 2024.08.06

• NVMe Secure Erase
  created: 2018.06.30, updated: 2024.11.18

• ATA Sanitize and hdparm
  created: 2018.06.10, updated: 2026.02.09

• ATA Secure Erase (SE) and hdparm
  created: 2011.02.21, updated: 2026.02.10

• Can data be recovered from a zero-filled hard drive?
  created: 2018.06.04

• Handling read errors while verifying a zeroed hard drive
  created: 2018.06.02, updated: 2023.06.29

• Mounting partitions from full disk images
  created: 2010.08.29, updated: 2017.03.06

• Imaging a corrupt hard drive
  created: 2008.02.24, updated: 2017.03.21

Encryption

• Cracking hashes in the cloud with hashcat (2026)
  created: 2026.02.23, updated: 2026.02.27

• Cracking hashes in the cloud with hashcat (2019)
  created: 2019.10.29, updated: 2026.02.23

• Decrypt EFS-encrypted files without a cert backup
  created: 2019.10.18, updated: 2022.11.19

• Cracking FileVault 2 (HFS+ or APFS)
  created: 2019.05.27, updated: 2026.02.25

• Replace or recover domain cached credentials
  created: 2019.01.29, updated: 2025.11.15

• Cracking Microsoft Office password protection via hashcat, locally or in the cloud
  created: 2017.08.22, updated: 2017.08.23

E Ink

• Kindle DX as E Ink computer monitor
  created: 2012.03.31, updated: 2018.05.17

• Installing Luigi Rizzo's Standalone Kindle Terminal
  created: 2011.02.25, updated: 2014.02.23

*nix

• Migrating nginx from HTTP to HTTPS
  created: 2014.12.23, updated: 2015.10.20

• SCO OpenServer P2V; or, How to Virtualize a SCO Box
  created: 2013.04.14

• Whitelist or blacklist websites in Ubuntu Linux
  created: 2012.06.24, updated: 2016.04.22

OS X / macOS

• Virtualizing Linux, macOS, and Windows ARM64 versions on Apple silicon
  created: 2022.06.11, updated: 2024.11.25

• Run Tiger, Leopard, or any Mac OS X PowerPC version on Apple silicon
  created: 2021.11.22, updated: 2023.02.19

• Install Haiku on a Core Duo 2006 MacBook Pro (17-inch)
  created: 2019.06.30

• Preparing a Mac for resale or donation (Sierra edition)
  created: 2017.02.18, updated: 2017.04.20

• Installing Snow Leopard into VMWare Fusion 8 on El Capitan
  created: 2016.09.11, updated: 2019.08.29

• Install and Optimize Leopard on Unsupported Macs
  created: 2008.02.17, updated: 2021.11.13

Remote Access

• Enable VPN server in OS X for remote access via iPhone, Windows, and OS X clients
  created: 2009.05.03, updated: 2011.09.01

• Simple OpenVPN Server and Client Setup for OS X 10.5 Leopard
  created: 2008.03.02

• Hardening SSH and Mounting Remote Filesystem in OS X Finder via SSHFS
  created: 2007.04.06

• AFP over SSH, or: how to securely access your Mac's files over the Internet without a VPN
  created: 2006.09.27

• Setup free and easy remote access (through firewalls and NAT routers) with VNC reverse connections
  created: 2005.01.19

• Setup FreeNX Server on Knoppix 3.6
  created: 2004.09.09

Windows

• Windows P2V: Hot/Cold Imaging, Troubleshooting, & Activation
  created: 2023.05.23

• Build a custom WinPE without third party tools like WinBuilder
  created: 2019.07.16

• Rename Windows user account and profile folder
  created: 2018.03.22

• Slipstream Windows 7 SP1 convenience rollup into a universal x86/x64 installer
  created: 2016.05.21, updated: 2016.09.20

• Automatically Map Network Drives on Domain Login for All Users, Certain Users, or Certain Groups
  created: 2008.01.21, updated: 2008.02.12

• Getting BGInfo to work for all users in Terminal Services
  created: 2006.09.16

• Aid4Mail Review
  created: 2005.04.26, updated: 2015.10.09

• Backup and restore drive images with Drive SnapShot 1.3
  created: 2004.08.19

• Rescue data from a non.booting Windows 98 Virtual PC 4 file via SLAX
  created: 2005.02.10

• Scripting FTP.exe
  posted: 2001.10.27

Other

• "Seriously, y'all. Trust the science." posted: 2021.10.04, updated: 2025.09.25

• Haiku posted: 2020.07.28

• On the Eating of Flesh by Plutarch
  posted: 2009.11.22

• Barnum's Rules For Success In Business
  posted: 2009.01.02

• Selected Chinese proverbs
  posted: 2006.08.19

• What's on my Treo 600
  created: 2005.11.18, updated: 2017.05.31

• Not Yours to Give
  posted: 2005.09.15, updated: 2024.11.21

• Small collection of poems
  posted: 2005.07.28, updated: 2024.03.06

• Help yourself, your fellow beings, and the planet
  posted: 2005.04.12, updated: 2023.11.30

Early or late, always be earnest.