Nov 26, 2005
More ZFS + Wait theres More (at no extra cost with a free set of steak knives)
John Siracusa laments the current state of filesystem thinking and suggests that Apple should look into Suns recently open-source'd ZFS. I'd still like to see some concrete examples of what happens if a disk fails under ZFS . . .
From the Register - Supercomputer 05. Some nice blade systems on page two of this article.
For the real geek - a Ethernet crossover adaptor keyring. Don't forget that you can make yourself a super 5 in 1 cable if you have the patience and inclination.
This was all over the web last week - Put your mac to sleep via SMS. Of course you can substitute 'sleep' with almost any scriptable action. A little like this old article on Monitoring your house via your mobile phone.
More freeware goodness - 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. Largely win32 but some multi-platform.
Firefox extension - Piggy Bank. Looks kind of interesting. Some of its usefulness looks to be related to being able to query resources that aren't global yet (eg Google Maps doesn't have much additonal data for countries outside of the US, Canada and parts of Europe). The meta-data features do look handy though.
Handy for presentations or web-pages - Yotophoto allows you to search and use thousands of royalty free images.
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