Jason Sidabras

This is a short little post describing how to mount an OSx disk image in the command line. I found this useful to bypass some read-only options built into a dmg->finder relationship. All of this information can be found in the man pages hdid (8) and hdiutil (1).

Simple, its just finding the command that was difficult. The command hdid allows you to mount and change permissions of the mount while hdiutil allows you to manipulate disk images including creating, converting to other Disk Image formats (all OSx) and to Burn the disk image. Which is far more convenient than wading through Disk Utility.

This also seems to be the easiest way to make a bootable cd in OSx. Changing the filesystem options are also available when you are making a hybrid cd for booting (i.e. hfs, iso, joliet or udf [DVDs] format).

Enjoy!

So I finally set up a NFS server on OpenBSD to share my videos and music to the MacMini that occupies my television-land space. I’m still dabbling into what programs to use to view the media with. Currently I am using either built-in FrontRow with the Perian plugin for Quicktime, enabling a major slew of video formats. The other program that I have been dabbling with (major beta right now) is iTheater which looks great and has many more options than FrontRow will ever have. I am waiting for the vlc plugin and then I will mainly run iTheater exclusively. The only problem is with the iTunes movie rentals, but I’m debating getting into Netflix.

On to the problem at hand.

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So I’ve been in Mac country for over 2 years and this weekend was my first reinstall since I bought my PowerBook G4. The whole system seemed sluggish and checking out a disk defrag program it seemed like my system needed a complete reformat. I also took the time to upgrade to Leopard which has a few integrated features (VNC and a VNC viewer, Xorg X11) that I thought was worth it.

When I purchased my computer I was 3 days away from a Marquette presentation and I didn’t have time to tweak the system as I seen fit. This time I finished my presentation early and decided to reformat the day before. heh. Brilliant!

Since a few of my other friends have ventured into Mac country I figured I would set up a list of what I did to make OSx more tolerable. Its not a bad OS, its just not 100% unixy.
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So It seems I am not as crazy as I initially thought. There is a good quick article with screenshots showing three (3) ways to run Windows XP/Vista on OSX. As I talked about last time, virutalization will be key in the next roundup of the “OS Wars”. With Novell and RHat doing it, now comes Fedora and Ubuntu. (As I mentioned with Xen + Intel’s VM chips it’s trivial).
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So with more and more of your personal identity finding itself on the web, it is increasingly important to to mind your presence online. It is also important to assure that if your systems are physically compromised that there is little to no chance that your personal identity isn’t in crisis. Especially with Google (I know, I know “don’t be evil”) taking over the web application industry.
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