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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 128-bit file [...]
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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 [...]
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Dear Google, Sitting here in front of my laptop with browser windows open all over the place and hot-key access to all your features, I am completely and utterly smitten. No other search engine does for me what you do, from the quality of your results to the modifiers that let me customize my search [...]
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I think running Windows on an Apple machine is tantamount to desecration. Andrew Kantor of USA Today thinks it’s a market-share opportunity for Microsoft. I use the word “thinks” very lightly: But the notion put forward by some Mac folks — that Boot Camp will improve the Mac’s position in the business and gaming marketplace [...]
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Oh, no. Tom’s MacBook Pro is a lemon, and the repair tools that shipped with it aren’t Intel-Book compatible. This has got to be a real bummer for Tom, since I know how much he was looking forward to Lysander’s arrival. Things like this are inevitable with such a major shift in the product line, [...]
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Apple periodically likes to pay lip service to the idea that some law firms use Macs instead of Windows-based systems. Their recent highlight of an Atlanta firm underscores why more attorneys have resisted switching: …the firm administrator at Gaslowitz Frankel (and Adam and Michael’s sister) collects attorneys’ billable hours and, without leaving her iMac G5, [...]
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How is it possible that someone like John Dvorak has been writing a nationally-published computer column for decades when he produces such totally indefensible intellectual fluff? Will Apple Adopt Windows? Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2. IBM also jumped on the Linux bandwagon over its [...]
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I got my Florida Bar News yesterday and while flipping through it this morning I have discovered that the Bar’s Board of Governors has voted to condemn the practice of viewing metadata in electronic files even though it does not fully understand exactly what that means. If you’re unfamiliar with metadata, you are not alone. [...]
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Others have done a much better job than I could of summing up today’s news about the new Intel-based Mac hardware, so I’ll just nod vaguely in Cupertino’s direction and go about my day. Except for this. It’ll run Windows. We think we’re in love. Windows. Seriously. Running Windows on an Apple machine is like [...]
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