Ramdisk Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Can I boot from a RAM disk?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 3rd, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I would like to run Mac OS X 10.6.7 off a RAM disk, for better performance/security while browsing the World Wide Web (I don't want to save the image with all those gnarly cookie crumbs to disk). I understand that a family living down the street from me is able to run Linux from a ...

iPod touch/iPhone ramdisks decrypted

by Erica Sadun (Oct 11th, 2007)

In the words of the sainted Professor Farnsworth: "Good news, everybody everyone!" The iPhone/iPod touch dev team has decrypted the iPhone 1.1.1 and iPod touch ramdisks. So what does this mean, loyal TUAW readers? It means that you're getting really close to free, non-commercial 1.1.1 unlocks put ...