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ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog
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Thanks Sun, I know you were waiting to announce this once Apple oficially dropped support for ZFS like the proverbial hot potato. ZFS Deduplication You knew this day was coming: ZFS now has built-in deduplication. If you already know what dedup is and why you want it, you can skip the next couple of sections. [...]
HOWTO: Ubuntu on the BeagleBoard
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This post is a step-by-step guide to get Ubuntu Linux up and running on the BeagleBoard. There’s nothing much new here, more it’s gathering information that’s spread over a few different pages all into one place, so if I need to do it again from scratch I’ve got an easy reference to follow.
How Mac OS X reports drive capacity
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Interesting technote to read from Apple – they are changing the way that Mac OS X 10.6 reports the size of a disk. In the past, they have used 1MB=1024kB and 1GB=1024MB, but now in line with standard SI Units, they are using 1MB=1000kB and 1GB=1000MB. This is more in line with the measurements that [...]
Tech Support Cheat Sheet – xkcd
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This is pretty well spot-on – print it out and keep it handy to save calling me. xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.
Outlook for Mac OS X
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Over on the Office for Mac Team Blog is a rather exiting announcement that Outlook is to make it’s long awaited return to Mac OS X. Back in the day, there was OS 9, we had Office 2001 and there was a freely downloadable version of Outlook for Mac, called Outlook 2001. Outlook 2001 was [...]
Final Cut Pro glitches when importing AVCHD footage
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I encountered an issue recently where Final Cut Pro will jitter and glitch out every half a second or so when importing AVCHD footage from a Sony HD camcorder. I eventually tracked down the error thanks to some google searching and it turns out that Perian is the culprit. Apple even have a couple of [...]
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