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From the category archives:
A few years ago, I was concerned that Apple wanted to boil the planet’s oceans by including the ZFS file system in a future release of OS X.
(I know that saying “ZFS file system” is like saying “ATM machine.” Not everyone knows what ZFS stands for; get over it.)
Apple has apparently reversed that decision, [...]
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I’ve been a Dreamhost customer since 2000. In that time, I found a lot to like about the service. It’s been convenient to use, packed with all the features I could want and then some, and seemed fairly reliable.
But if you were to search Twitter today for the word “Dreamhost,” you’d have [...]
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So how come I never met this guy? He lives in Florida, is an FSU fan, a Mac user, and a Halo player. I’m sure we’d get along famously.
My Orlando friends have some ’splainin to do.
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A few months ago, Google announced that its Calendar app would be accessible by PDA-based web browsers. It worked like a dream. And for someone like me, a lawyer on the go, it was a great tool.
Suddenly, sometime last week or so, it just stopped working. Instead of the nice neat rows [...]
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So I just went to the Apple Store to play with the demos. Some observations:
As one who loves to surf the web from anywhere on my Treo, I could get seriously enamored with the slick it’s-the-real-internet of the iPhone. Wow.
They’re flying off the shelves. This could be bigger than the iPod. [...]
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Do you know the significance of this number?
13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640
It’s currently at the heart of a battle over First Amendment rights. Some think it’s hexed.
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I Come Not to Praise Microsoft…
Paul Graham thinks that Microsoft is dead, and he gives four reasons why.
Widespread availability of broadband, which fueled…
The emergence of Google, which led to…
The rise of online applications and the waning importance of desktop software, coinciding with…
Apple’s rise from the grave
“No one who cares about computers uses Microsoft’s anyway.”
The last [...]
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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 [...]
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Several months ago, I noted that the Florida Bar had decided to burn witches – urm, prohibit the mining of metadata.
Doing some metadata research today, I finally found the real reason the Bar acted so strongly – one of the members of the Board of Governors got suckered.
One Florida lawyer was quite upset when he [...]
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