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This ruling means that no computer can "access all of the web", because there is content on some websites which are not renderable on all platforms.

For example, embedding binary KDE/Linux/x86-64 plasmoids on a website (e.g. with this plugin) would make that content unusable on IE/Wintel-32 and many other browser platforms.

Therefore, being able to "access all of the web" is meaningless. Marketing fluff.

It was removed temporarily:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-information-on-apis-removed-in.html

How is this GPS device going to receive a signal through several feet of cow
Well, that's easy. You just make every tenth cow swallow a repeater and a signal amplifier.

what's going to power it?
Attached to the device, is a long cord, which will hang out of the cow's mouth (or in some circumstances, the other end). You just plug 'em in each night.

I got that idea from an anorexic's how-to guide.

I'll see your pity post, and I'll raise you:

• Bank Card Company (the ones that give out the VISA cards - here in Belgium at least).
• Competition that requires filling out a form in a flash applet.
• Flash applet submits the results (including name, surname, VISA number, hobbies, ...) in plaintext.
• Have been informed of this almost a year ago.

Post detailing the find (in dutch)
Actual site (also in dutch)

Somehow the fact that their web site requires Silverlight isn't terribly surprising when you see the members of the DNCC Technology Advisory Council...

"As part of its planning process, the DNCC created a Technology Advisory Council, made up of representatives from Qwest, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, AT&T, Level3, Comcast, EchoStar, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec, as well as Denver city officials and Colorado state officials."

Reference: http://mediacircus2.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-wired-tac-on-dncc.html

Moonlight hasn't implemented all of the Silverlight 2 features needed for the Olympics yet.

http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2008/08/moonlighting-olympics.html

Once you've done that, you should be able to navigate to the NBC Olympics video pages (although you still won't be able to view the video content quite yet... we're still working on writing the code to make that work).

Well, to paraphrase Steve Yegge ( http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html )...

If a religion is potentially good, but 90+% of the time smart and well-intentioned people screw it up, then it's a bad religion. So they can only say it's the people's fault so many times before it's not really the people's fault.

The trouble is that people who follow satire know more about the news than people who read the actual news. So eventually we'll all be reading UnNews and fake news sites!

Steel does not need to be 'melted' to be weakened well beyond safety margins, and beyond its required design strength. At moderately high temperatures it is weakened significantly.

True, steel does not need to be molten to be weakened, but you to need some event that melts steel to explain the molten steel found underneath the trade towers weeks after the collapse.

A lot of the GDP growth was influenced by inflated real estate prices. Budgets at the state and local level were planned around asset wealth which didn't exist then and doesn't exist now. Calculated Risk: California City Nears Bankruptcy and a follow up article.

Do they mean to say that a fire can cause a building to collapse?

Name another steel skyscraper fire where the building collapsed.

There was certainly smoke coming out of the towers where the planes hit. I don't remember a lot of smoke around WTC7.

Well, you probably weren't a firefighter there, then. Some of their eye-witness accounts

but then you looked on the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn't look good.

How about this video of a lot of smoke around WTC7?

The source you linked says "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years..." So, yea, no difference.

Well, if you look past the abstract, the report estimates that Obama's proposals would raise the debt by $3.5 trillion, and McCain's proposals would raise it by $5 trillion. Neither is good, but there is certainly a difference.

The sunsetting of the Bush tax cuts alone will cut my income, and I am barely middle class.

Obama's plan does not call for sunsetting of the middle-class provisions of the Bush tax cuts. Paul Krugman's column last Friday has a more thorough analysis of how the middle-class is affected by the two candidates' tax proposals. As for the payroll tax increase not included in the analysis I cited, it would only affect those earning over $250 thousand, hardly the middle class, however I won't deny that it may be quite large.

Of course, that's just a scheme to extend the viability of Social Security for a few more years, so people will ignore its impending collapse for a while longer. McCain isn't really addressing it at all.

The impending demise of social security has been greatly exaggerated. I will refer you to another article by Paul Krugman. When that article was written, the very conservative estimates of the Social Security Administration had the trust fund running out in 2042.

It appears that your main concern is the national debt. Based on recent history, the Democrats and Republicans are hardly the same when it comes to national debt.

My unofficial transcript of video:

Larry: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling my that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire. I said, 'You know we've had such terrible loss of life, the smartest thing to do is pull it.' Uh, and they made that decision, to pull, and we watched the building collapse."

I don't think there is enough context to decide whether:
it = building
it = the attempt to put out the fire

Supporting the pulled building links:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/silverstein_pullit.html
http://11syyskuu.blogspot.com/2006/02/destruction-of-wtc-7.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58h0LjdMry0
(in this video you can hear explosions before it comes down, but perhaps not loud enough to cause the collapse?)

Supporting fires:
http://911guide.googlepages.com/danielnigro

What I'd like to see is a full video of the simulated collapse superimposed on a video of the actual collapse and see how well they match up. I have a hard time believing that the fire dept (or someone from the dept) wouldn't admit that they had brought the building down.

I think if you have passion for something then you're among the lucky, and certainly the lines blur between my work and my hobbies. Of course, sometimes that can have unexpected results!

You missed my point and then made it for me. Except that last bit. You underestimate the power of asymetric warfare, I think. It is a common mistake and one that is easily made up until the fighting breaks out. That kind of thinking has lead more than one country into decay and ruin.

Of course, I think any policy based revolution is bound to end up in a failed state, but systemic revolutions seem to be much more healthy. I've discussed a lot of this on my blog, feel free to kick over and read if you like this kind of stuff: Dealing in Lead.

I even keep doing it in my spare time.

The information comes from MediaSentry's lawyer. If it's neither "informative" or "true" that is par for the course. MediaSentry is known for making contradictory statements.

The information comes from MediaSentry's lawyer. If it's neither "informative" or "true" that is par for the course. MediaSentry is known for making contradictory statements.

Or in establishing the case and penalties in a RICO countersuit... It seems to me that this lawlessness qualifies for RICO counteraction, against both MediaSentry and RIAA. (and could it be a class action??)

Very technical question. It's all quite new. American judicial history has never seen a litigation campaign like this one before, all based upon conduct which violates various states' licensing laws, some of which make violation a felony, some of which make violation a misdemeanor. Probably you should follow Andersen v. Atlantic and Atlantic v. Raleigh for some specific instances of RICO litigation, and UMG v. Del Cid and Atlantic v. Boyer, on civil conspiracy to commit crime of unlicensed investigation, but nothing is definitive at this point. It will be years before we know the answer to your question.

Or in establishing the case and penalties in a RICO countersuit... It seems to me that this lawlessness qualifies for RICO counteraction, against both MediaSentry and RIAA. (and could it be a class action??)

Very technical question. It's all quite new. American judicial history has never seen a litigation campaign like this one before, all based upon conduct which violates various states' licensing laws, some of which make violation a felony, some of which make violation a misdemeanor. Probably you should follow Andersen v. Atlantic and Atlantic v. Raleigh for some specific instances of RICO litigation, and UMG v. Del Cid and Atlantic v. Boyer, on civil conspiracy to commit crime of unlicensed investigation, but nothing is definitive at this point. It will be years before we know the answer to your question.

Or in establishing the case and penalties in a RICO countersuit... It seems to me that this lawlessness qualifies for RICO counteraction, against both MediaSentry and RIAA. (and could it be a class action??)

Very technical question. It's all quite new. American judicial history has never seen a litigation campaign like this one before, all based upon conduct which violates various states' licensing laws, some of which make violation a felony, some of which make violation a misdemeanor. Probably you should follow Andersen v. Atlantic and Atlantic v. Raleigh for some specific instances of RICO litigation, and UMG v. Del Cid and Atlantic v. Boyer, on civil conspiracy to commit crime of unlicensed investigation, but nothing is definitive at this point. It will be years before we know the answer to your question.

Or in establishing the case and penalties in a RICO countersuit... It seems to me that this lawlessness qualifies for RICO counteraction, against both MediaSentry and RIAA. (and could it be a class action??)

Very technical question. It's all quite new. American judicial history has never seen a litigation campaign like this one before, all based upon conduct which violates various states' licensing laws, some of which make violation a felony, some of which make violation a misdemeanor. Probably you should follow Andersen v. Atlantic and Atlantic v. Raleigh for some specific instances of RICO litigation, and UMG v. Del Cid and Atlantic v. Boyer, on civil conspiracy to commit crime of unlicensed investigation, but nothing is definitive at this point. It will be years before we know the answer to your question.

MediaSentry refers to itself in court papers as "SafeNet, Inc, f/k/a MediaSentry, Inc.", which would connote a name change. See, e.g., the March 17, 2008, letter by Thomas Mullaney published here. So I didn't "lie", I merely took MediaSentry/Safenet's attorney at his word. So please do not be so quick to accuse me of lying. I do not lie.

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html

Whether it is GPU or CPU or GPGPU, they're all missing the mark, IMO. Those chips are a pain in the ass to program and they are not universal. Mixing MIMD parallelism with SIMD parallelism is a match made in hell. Multithreading is seriously flawed. Intel knows that. That's why they're so busy working on domain-specific dev tools to keep the programmer insulated from all the nastiness. It's not going to work because there is no flexibility. The industry is in dire need of a seismic paradigm shift and the longer it waits, the more painful it's going to be down the road. To find out how to solve the parallel programming crisis, read Transforming the TILE64 into a Kick-Ass Parallel Machine.

You're right. The value proposition that newspapers bring is the investigative reporting. That is why the online presence of a newspaper shouldn't be powered by wordpress.

Any newspaper that wants to get their online presence right just needs to study the NY Times. It's really all about the economics of distribution. Column inches in a paper is expensive. Disk space on a web server is cheap. Use the web site as a searchable archive for all content but run ads on the site to encourage users to subscribe to the print edition. Also give away banner ads as an incentive to companies to advertise in the print edition.

The same holds true for broadcast media and some companies such as NPR and CBS are finally boarding that clue train.

I shouldn't feed such a blatant troll but what the hell.

Not a troll. I'm an open-source developer. I just don't drink the kool-aid and I'm willing to admit that we still have work to do.

That would depend on the crowd, most of the people I talk to now have heard of linux even if they don't know what it is. However, most of them don't know what windows is either.

Meaningless statement.

What driver issues? My last two new system builds loaded without the need for additional drivers. Firmware needed to be downloaded to run my wireless adapter properly but Ubuntu helpfully does that for me.

As said so frequently on Linux Hater's Blog, WorksForMe(tm) is not an acceptable answer.

your right, for the most part I've found the popular open source software better than commercial offerings.

Perhaps for you it's easier. For most people, it seems like the popular open source software is vastly inferior. People would rather pay for MS Office than use OpenOffice. People would rather pay for Visio than use Dia. People would rather pay for Photoshop than use The GIMP. If they were inferior, why would this be so?

Yes, the programmers obviously didn't care about what they were doing and the UI is horrible. It actually gets worse with age. The MacOS UI is better but still fails to measure up to Gnome or KDE.

Telling the GNOME and KDE developers feel-good lies like this doesn't help. Echo chambers are bad.

They haven't had any injunctions against them or any court orders to stop... so why would they quit? They may be a scummy company, but I can't really blame them for not stopping when they're just being investigated, but no one is forcing them to stop. However, my hope is that the investigation will make them have to pay fines for each infraction, and that any evidence found in every single case they help with will be thrown out.

They weren't exactly ordered to stop but they were gently reminded on February 22nd.

The boxen aren't huge. My neighborhood installation is a single box about twice the size of the cable TV nodes. We have several cable nodes but only one U-verse box. Pictures at http://alternate-u-verse.blogspot.com/2008/08/distribution-points.html

I concede the fan noise is loud. Our local installation is on a busy street, across from a school and a park. Its sound is unnoticeable from across the 4-lane street.

So you think your system is the best. Great, go ahead and continue believing so. But I do have a problem when you extrapolate your idealized system to something like "moral standard", "universal value", blah blah and try to force it into the reality, and not only to yourself but also to everyone else.

There's a question that has been raised by a number of learned people already (the most recent one here: http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2008/07/smoke-and-mirrors-china-and-india.html):

If you were born poor (which 90% of Chinese are), which country would you prefer to live, the totalitarian China or the democratic India?

Their answer is unanimously China. It comes at no surprise that the recent Pew survey showed a whooping 82% Chinese approve their government, the highest in the world. If the Chinese are happy, why all the fuss? Can't you just mind you own business?

Perhaps you mean good, and truly believe democracy will bring good to China. As a Chinese I thank you, but at the same time would like to remind you that it's up to Chinese to prioritize what they want and what to achieve, on their own terms. Demonizing their country or government is not going to achieve anything.

More than any other organization, Intel knows that multithreading is bad. Lots of smart people such as professor Edward Lee (the head of U.C. Berkeley's Parallel Computing Lab) have warned Intel of the disaster down the road. It is time for Intel and everybody else to make a clean break with the old stuff. There is an infinitely better way to design and program parallel computers that does not involve the use of threads at all. Instead of the Penryn, Intel should have picked something similar to the Itanium, which has a superscalar architecture. A sequential (scalar) core has no business doing anything in a parallel multicore processor. Intel will regret this. Sooner or later, a competitor will read the writings on the wall and do things right. Intel and the others will be left holding an empty bag. To find out the right way to design a multicore processor, read Transforming the TILE64 into a Kick-Ass Parallel Machine.

Per http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2008/08/cve-2007-4752-and-centos.html via http://planet.centos.org/:

updated 22 Aug 2008 CentOS acknowledge CVE-2007-4752 and are reviewing our build and signing processes and hosts for signs of tampering subsequent to retrieval of SRPMs.

This is Russ Herrold's blog, so you can consider it authoritative. I think that this announcement has become the channel MOTD on #centos as well.

Executive summary: They're aware of the issue and examining their stuff to see whether they got bit.

From a public policy perspective: This post reminds us that cryptography is a dynamic and sometimes surprising science. The implication is that to achieve data security with cryptography is not just a simple task. But politicians have recently been writing laws and regulations with the assumption that to "encrypt" data is the end-all be-all of data security. It is not. Lawmakers are unwise to require a specific technology like "encryption" for data security. --Ben Wright http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/encryption-legislation-goes-overboard.html

From a public policy perspective: This post reminds us that cryptography is a dynamic and sometimes surprising science. The implication is that to achieve data security with cryptography is not just a simple task. But politicians have recently been writing laws and regulations with the assumption that to "encrypt" data is the end-all be-all of data security. It is not. Lawmakers are unwise to require a specific technology like "encryption" for data security. --Ben Wright http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/encryption-legislation-goes-overboard.html

I agree, there is more than enough incoming solar radiation to take care of all our energy needs. There would still be a place for nuclear generators (ie: submarines, aircraft carriers, etc...) but for the most part the household, commercial and industrial power loads could be taken care of. These account for most of our energy needs so all we would need to figure out is how to deal with vehicles. Solar airplanes have been extensively developed, electric cars could be plugged into a solar grid and the rest could be taken care of by small nuclear generators supplemented by solar and wind systems. Come on, this isn't rocket sciences... Oh, yeah, rockets. We'd have to figure something out for those too... Magnetic launch system anyone? http://spacemonitor.blogspot.com/2007/03/magnetic-launch-system.html

Data breaches are more nuanced than the sensational numbers in a story like this would suggest. Data breach announcements and notices have a scalability problem. As the number of announcements and notices soars, we need to better define what is a serious breach and what is not. Otherwise, the public drowns in breach claims, announcements and notices, many of which are insignificant. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-lost-tape-equate-to-lost-data.html

Plugin incompatibility, unsupported flash, java shennanigans, the 32/64 bit crapfest, have fun trying to get a java vpn client working... Under ubuntu with AMD64 you need to run a 32 bit version of the firefox2 browser and java 5 to get the most popular java based vpn client on the planet to work.

Flash is simply BROKEN. I'm not blaming firefox for this one. The easiest workaround is to run firefox.exe from wine.

What's wrong with running the 32 bit version of Firefox on a 64 bit OS?

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-browser-needs-16-exabytes.html

Amen!
I even wrote a post in my blog advocating it. In fact I went further and suggested standardizing on JavaScript even for server side stuff. If you (or anyone else) wants to check it out here is the link (warning, it is written in spanish).

The question was asked before: people living in the north pole have a 6 months day and a 6 months night, I guess scholars did answer that question before.

99,9999999999999999999999999 of human being can refer to the sun position (sunrise, sunset), so a sky boy is just a perfect exception, who can refer to his watch to pray.

The question that should be asked is why do Muslims pray and why 5 times a day???

"There are thousand reasons why Muslims pray five times a day. I can go on with a very long list, but i would like to just mention some very common sense reasons. One from Buddhist perspective another from Christian (or you can say mystical perspective).

The mystical perspective: When you are in love, don't you have this longing to call your beloved time and time again? Perhaps you wish to see or talk to him/her hundreds times if you are away from him/her. This experience is very common to all human heart who is in love.

All religion teaches you to love God, the Supreme Being. And muslims don't just say that, but in action do what love demands. Thats why they hasten to their Beloved time and time again, contemplate on the Divine. That is the secret of praying numerous time a day. From mystical point of view, God is the ultimate Lover and you communicate to your Beloved by your prayer. What else son of Adam have but prayer to communicate with Him?

Remember the verse: "...to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul"(Deuteronomy 11:13)

The Buddhist perspective: Buddha taught the great importance of mindfulness. It is prayer at set times are great tool to meditate and to have a mindful life. We often are too must swept away with our materialist day to day affairs. Muslims when they pray at prescribed time, they again come back to their soul, come back to their origin. It is a collective, mindful meditation that helps you not to forget who you are and where you belong. The art of mindfulness is applied very practically in regular prayer and meditation.

Now you may ask, pray regularly is ok. But isn't praying five times a day is too much? The simple answer is no, its not too much. Billions of muslims on earth do that. And even when they participate in this modern lifestyle.

There is a provision in Islam that you can combine your mid day prayers together and night prayers together. So, practically it come down to pray (or meditate) 3 times a day. So if you are scheduled very tight because of busy work you can pray thrice. First, before sunrise. then at the middle of the day and after sunset or at night.

By doing so among other blessings what happen is that you get a clear and peaceful mind. By praying before sunrise, you start your day early. In the middle of the day you take time out to pray and you help yourself to free yourself from the work stress. By praying at end of the day you complete the cyle and cool down your stresses.

Even in this twenty first century the medical and psychology experts are suggesting to take time out during work and to do regular meditation. Islam being the final message to humanity established this practice for modern man.

And in Original Judaism prayer was also prescribed 3 times a day. Jesus (peace be upon him) also used to pray 3 times everyday respecting the laws. It is only Pauline Christinity that downplayed the significance of prayer. When Islam came after original message of Jesus was corrupted, Islam prescribed prayer 5 times a day but at the same time gave opportunity to observe it in 3 times."

copy/paste from : http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-muslims-pray-everyday.html

Agreed. The Federal Government of the United States is clearly the principle enemy of the People of the United States. It already causes far more harm than benefit. How, you may ask, do we resolve this situation? (Note: I am personally dedicated to non-violence, and unconditionally reject any violent approach)

Hint: The Russian people were able to abolish THEIR despicably evil government without resorting to violent revolution, and so can we! Of course, the old Soviet government was replaced by organized crime, but most Russians seem to consider this an improvement.

We just need to wait for impending collapse, shortly after which the US government will fall, too. Of course, it's likely that the US Government will propagate assorted atrocities on its own people, and the rest of the world, as it flails about in its death throes, before finally fading from view. Still, the circumstances of the energy decline and ensuing economic and commercial collapse, combined with the US Government's own dysfunctional reaction to these stimuli, will eventually bring down or render meaningless the US Government. Let us all profoundly hope that our sensible military men and women can prevent use of nuclear weapons by deranged and desperate leaders.

Note: I use Collapse in the technical, anthropological sense - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse . Collapse is a well studied, well understood historical phenomenon. Collapse has occurred within living memory on most inhabited continents EXCEPT North America (e.g. USSR, Argentina, Germany, Somalia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, others) - which has been spared mostly due to its large initial endowment of fossil fuels, which are now mostly depleted. Learn what are the standard historical markers of impending collapse, then look at the current status of the United States, and THEN form your own opinion about the likely near future of the USA.

I personally think this situation will play out well before the 2012 elections, if they are not canceled due to martial law. So, brighten up folks, there's light at the end of the tunnel!

For anyone interested in a direct comparison between the recent Soviet collapse, and the likely prospects of the USA (including practical & local suggestions on how to adapt and prepare, should you decide that collapse might be coming soon to your neighborhood), I encourage you to read Dmitri Orlov. Start with Closing the Collapse Gap or The Five Stages of Collapse.

I refuse to downgrade my browser to 32-bit in order to use it.

Wow, you must be browsing some DAMN big pages...

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-browser-needs-16-exabytes.html

Yeah, a junk mailer scanning court documents for addresses will give a fuck about robots.txt. Anyway: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/google-spiders-sometimes-ignore-meta.html - even if it isn't malice, there's still incompetency.

One of my FreeNAS mirror disks broke and switched to an OpenSolaris NAS . Happy with all the additional functionality.

There are two new articles related to this one. One is an interview with Arup, and the other is three videos. Here are the links: http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-green-city-for-china-interview-part.html http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-green-city-for-china-dongtan-videos.html

There are two new articles related to this one. One is an interview with Arup, and the other is three videos. Here are the links: http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-green-city-for-china-interview-part.html http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-green-city-for-china-dongtan-videos.html

Unlike "Do no Evil" Google.

http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/hack-olympics.html
1. Google's cached copy of the spreadsheet does not contain Hexin's age record, and Baidu's does. This does not necessarily imply that Google allowed its data to be rewritten by Chinese censors, but the possibility does present itself.
2. From the minute I pressed the publish button on this blog, the clock is ticking until Hexin's true age is wiped out of the Baidu cache forever. It is up to you, the folks reading this blog, to take your own screenshots and notarize them by publishing them. If you put a link in the comments section, I'll post it.

Hmm, that reminds me of something

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.(pp. 34-35 1984 by George Orwell)

Totalitarian societies will always have memory holes to destroy documents with politically inconvenient facts in them, and armies of minions writing replacement documents without those facts. But it's very, very sad to see Google seemingly cooperating in this process.

I took a screenshot of the age in the Baidu cache -

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/2111/199411bw0.png

Silverlight is taking the web by storm and is a better architecture than flash! Use it people! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Do stuffed animals instantly create a sense of revulsion?

Erm, ya? Taxidermy often is creepy, especially creative taxidermy.

ZFS is at the top of so many folks' list that I figure I should throw this out just for reference:

ZFS is an available option in FreeNAS.

I'm guessing by extension that it's available in the general FreeBSD distribution too.

-Matt

So why is ZFS for Linux not yet out of Beta?

Is ZFS for Linux even in Beta? I don't think ZFS-Fuse may be fine for hobbyists, but it's not even close to a practical solution for my primary filesystem. It is not something I would trust enough to run my business on.