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Next Mac OS X Upgrade Will Feature Eater-of-Worlds File System

  • Posted by Mike
  • 12/22/2006

ZFS. Sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? But when Daring Fireball reported that Apple’s OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard, would include support the new file system, I had to do some poking around. Turns out that this method of storing your computer files will bring about Armageddon.
Don’t believe me? Just look:
ZFS is a [...]

Malthus is Still Wrong

  • Posted by Mike
  • 4/10/2006

Dean Esmay writes about overpopulation fears:

First off, what about all those poor areas that are so horribly overcrowded in the third world? I invite you to look carefully: in any country that is generally free and features a generally democratic government (say, as ranked by Freedom House as a 4,4 or better), no matter how [...]