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ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog

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...
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HOWTO: Ubuntu on the BeagleBoard

This post is more to gather 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. I'm running on Mac OS...
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Broken LDAP Database on Mac OS X Server

I had a client with a broken LDAP database on their OS X Server today. The power had failed and the UPS didn't do it's thing, so the power was yanked from the server. Upon rebooting, things weren't looking too...
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How Mac OS X reports drive capacity

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,...
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Weird iCal Server Issue

I had an issue today where a client's iCal Server logs would show lots of: "Unable to find any record with GUID..." events, constantly. iCal was slowing down for everyone, server-based calendars either took ages to update with changes, or...
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The mysterious case of the missing Ethernet port

I encountered a really strange issue with a Mac mini functioning as a small workgroup file server. The mini had dropped off the network and no-one could access it's share points. I had the end user reboot it to see...
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Mac OS X 10.5.8

The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for: compatibility and reliability issues when...
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