Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X

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A commercial ZFS solution is (still) coming to Mac OS X, thanks to former Apple filesystem and OS engineer Don Brady (who previously worked on the abandoned internal Apple project to port ZFS). Brady and his company, Ten\’s Complement, just launched a limited private beta in hopes to have the software polished and ready for a summer launch this year.


Ars spoke with Brady, who has a long history engineering filesystems for Mac OS and Mac OS X, to find out a little about his previous work with ZFS at Apple, and what Mac users can expect to gain from Ten\’s Complement\’s port of ZFS
Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X.

ALERT: Facebook Chat Hijackings Continue To Spread

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We\’re seeing lots of people warning about — or at least apologizing for - chat hijackings.The latest one says \”Hey, check out this girl, lol, she must be out of her mind for making that video!\” and includes a shortened bit.ly web address.That URL leads to a Facebook page running an application called Congood. Clicking \”allow\” on the permission box…
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Post Earthquake Tokyo – Food & Supplies

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Dannychoo discusses food shortages, or the mostly lack of food shortages, in Japan after the earthquake… From his description I would say that everything is mainly on track and running fairly smoothly. The Japanese government appears to be handling this disaster fairly more smoothly than I would have ever believed.
Oh yes, your wondering how I can say that with the image above… ? Click through and see what I mean…

(See the Rest of the Story at Post Earthquake Tokyo – Food & Supplies.)