ZFS in OS X

There have been rumors that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) would include support for ZFS and it appears, with the latest preview from Apple (see Ars Technica), that that rumor is reality. This has caused an unsurprising fuss and state of excitement in developers and users. Everybody knows that HFS and HFS+ (the current filesystem choices) are really bad. They are comparatively very slow and inefficient and archaic from the perspective that they put some interesting restrictions on how files, file naming and individual partitions of a hard drive are used.

ZFS in OS X

There have been rumors that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) would include support for ZFS and it appears, with the latest preview from Apple (see Ars Technica), that that rumor is reality. This has caused an unsurprising fuss and state of excitement in developers and users. Everybody knows that HFS and HFS+ (the current filesystem choices) are really bad. They are comparatively very slow and inefficient and archaic from the perspective that they put some interesting restrictions on how files, file naming and individual partitions of a hard drive are used.

ZFS in OS X

There have been rumors that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) would include support for ZFS and it appears, with the latest preview from Apple (see Ars Technica), that that rumor is reality. This has caused an unsurprising fuss and state of excitement in developers and users. Everybody knows that HFS and HFS+ (the current filesystem choices) are really bad. They are comparatively very slow and inefficient and archaic from the perspective that they put some interesting restrictions on how files, file naming and individual partitions of a hard drive are used.

ZFS in OS X

There have been rumors that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) would include support for ZFS and it appears, with the latest preview from Apple (see Ars Technica), that that rumor is reality. This has caused an unsurprising fuss and state of excitement in developers and users. Everybody knows that HFS and HFS+ (the current filesystem choices) are really bad. They are comparatively very slow and inefficient and archaic from the perspective that they put some interesting restrictions on how files, file naming and individual partitions of a hard drive are used.

ZFS in OS X

There have been rumors that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) would include support for ZFS and it appears, with the latest preview from Apple (see Ars Technica), that that rumor is reality. This has caused an unsurprising fuss and state of excitement in developers and users. Everybody knows that HFS and HFS+ (the current filesystem choices) are really bad. They are comparatively very slow and inefficient and archaic from the perspective that they put some interesting restrictions on how files, file naming and individual partitions of a hard drive are used.

Free, but not for long: Ruby on Rails book

Sitepoint is offering its very useful Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications book free for 60 days as a PDF download. If you're at all interested in playing around with Ruby on Rails, or want to know what all the hoopla is about, I'd strongly recommend the download.This is the same book I used as a key source for my piece Hands on with Ruby on Rails. In it, author Patrick Lenz goes step by step through building a Digg-like Web application.

Free, but not for long: Ruby on Rails book

Sitepoint is offering its very useful Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications book free for 60 days as a PDF download. If you're at all interested in playing around with Ruby on Rails, or want to know what all the hoopla is about, I'd strongly recommend the download.This is the same book I used as a key source for my piece Hands on with Ruby on Rails.

Free, but not for long: Ruby on Rails book

Sitepoint is offering its very useful Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications book free for 60 days as a PDF download. If you're at all interested in playing around with Ruby on Rails, or want to know what all the hoopla is about, I'd strongly recommend the download.This is the same book I used as a key source for my piece Hands on with Ruby on Rails.

DOS lives! Secrets of the Windows command prompt

DOS commands have it all over their graphical cousins for times when you want to work with groups of files, fix file associations and manage network settings.

Mozilla gets serious about a mobile browser

Mozilla said it plans to develop a browser for mobile phones.

YouTube lands on Google Earth

Google Inc. has embedded YouTube video into its popular Google Earth program, enable users to watch video from sites around the globe.

Electronic Arts sells its soul to oil and energy giant BP

When the newest version of SimCity, SimCity Societies, comes out on November 15, the guts of an important part of the game play will have been paid for by the energy giant BP, which has used its influence to manipulate the game's trade-offs between generating electricity and pollution. The New York Times reports that BP worked with Electronics Arts programmers to design the game's underlying power and pollution models, and that in the game, "relatively clean systems like wind farms, natural gas plants and solar farms are branded with the BP logo, while the dirty options like coal are not." In return, BP paid Electronic Arts an undisclosed amount of cash.

Electronic Arts sells its soul to oil and energy giant BP

When the newest version of SimCity, SimCity Societies, comes out on November 15, the guts of an important part of the game play will have been paid for by the energy giant BP, which has used its influence to manipulate the game's trade-offs between generating electricity and pollution. The New York Times reports that BP worked with Electronics Arts programmers to design the game's underlying power and pollution models, and that in the game, "relatively clean systems like wind farms, natural gas plants and solar farms are branded with the BP logo, while the dirty options like coal are not." In return, BP paid Electronic Arts an undisclosed amount of cash.

Electronic Arts sells its soul to oil and energy giant BP

When the newest version of SimCity, SimCity Societies, comes out on November 15, the guts of an important part of the game play will have been paid for by the energy giant BP, which has used its influence to manipulate the game's trade-offs between generating electricity and pollution. The New York Times reports that BP worked with Electronics Arts programmers to design the game's underlying power and pollution models, and that in the game, "relatively clean systems like wind farms, natural gas plants and solar farms are branded with the BP logo, while the dirty options like coal are not." In return, BP paid Electronic Arts an undisclosed amount of cash.