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Apple saves the world: drops planet-threatening filesystem from OS plans

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by Mike on 10/25/2009

in Apple Fetish, Perpetual Beta : Release, The End of the World As We Know It, The Joy of Tech

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

by Mike on 12/22/2006

in Apple Fetish, Best of Release, Perpetual Beta : Release, The End of the World As We Know It, The Joy of Tech

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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Malthus is Still Wrong

by Mike on 4/10/2006

in The End of the World As We Know It

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 [...]

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