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Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS
overunderunderdone writes "According to eWeek, Apple Computer is planning to introduce a new journaling file system code-named 'Elvis' with the 10.2.2 release. Supposedly it will run on top of HFS+ and will be turned off by default. Though it will cost you 10% to 15% performance penalty the article says it is more extensive than NTFS and is on par with BeOS's 64-bit journaling file system. Not surprising since it is being developed by the same person - Dominic Giampaolo." I've been super impressed by OS X having used it as my primary laptop for the last couple weeks. It really is a great unix box- and this is one of the important missing puzzle pieces.
Elvis IS alive
What about the promised all in one integrated, amazingly fast cross-referrence anything filesystem Microsoft promised us? Why isn't there a comparison to that???
What do you mean it's vapourware???
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
No... must resist...
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Can't help falling in love
Slashdot's mechanisms to prevent abuse really really suck. My last comment was posted in a total of 11 seconds. It was witty, and brief. Slashcode insisted I wait another 9 seconds.
I posted it, and got moderated down twice. One of these moderations was "Overrated". How can it be overrated if it's already been modded down.
Metamoderation doesn't catch "overrated". There are no checks on using this.
Won't touch OS X until window focus can follow the mouse. Sorry.
Elvis is reserved for the vi clone.
Thanks in advance
I already made this joke earlier, mister. Make with the crying and pleading already.
I really like the letter 'z'
(+1) Goat-riffic!
(+1, Dead-On Correct)
Ever hear of XBox? I wonder what XBox2 will do.. or XBox 3...
Fuck you, DickFace.
Not fast enough for you? Don't use it.
Drat, it got modded up, not down. Well, serves me right for being a pussy and posting (what I consider) humor as an AC.
Ah well.
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
...but I had to know.
..."I've been seeking and not finding. I've got to get my head on straight and fly right... No more fragmented block-head behavior... Life goes so smoothly when I remember where I put things... No more crashing and burning on weekends ... take writing class..."
I hesitated and nearly turned around - but, I decided - I had to know. In the end, I, gave in to my curiosity. So I looked around to see if she had come back from from the Platters concert. She'd gone with a scuzzy looking friend who'd twisted her arm to get her to go - to 'decompress' he said. I think the guy has a one track mind, after all, she was really stacked. Slowly I opened the cover and read the words... "Dear Journal..." it went on
My suspicions were for naught. Her mind was on work - not him. Guess I won't have to give him the boot. The magnetic attraction I thought was there was a bad read on my part... I closed the book and walked away - humming a little tune.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Note: the headline is wrong. All Apple laptops still have built-in ADB keyboards. Apple has no plans to rectify this problem. Read on to see why this deficiency reduces sales of Apple laptops to traditional unix users.
Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.
I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.
Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.
Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.
There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.
Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 12 years. I expect that trend to continue. (Also note that my Apple contact indicated that Macs would never ship with a 3-button mouse, even though Apple intended to port almost all X-window software and deliver it either on a CD/DVD or installed directly on each Mac's hard drive. How Unix friendly is a 1-button mouse with X programs that often require 3 buttons?)
Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.
He knows nothing, and cant take people who point out that he knows nothing. So he got 2 of his friends with 5 moderator points to attack a "troll." See, this is how losers like Tevis operate. The censor unpopular people or lines of thinking in order to be right. The pussy fucking bitch can try, he and his fag friends, to suppress criticism, but he will fail. Tevis, you mother fucking Troll fascist jerk, please die. You suck. Also note Tevis knows nothing. Its rather easy to tell. He takes his myopic view of the universe and would actuate legislation based on this view. He is not learned [learn-ed, two syllables, Tevis the fag wouldn't know this word], and he is a fool. Death to you Tevis, a pox on Slashdot, death.
Hi, I'm a fag, and I'm Tevis Money. Nice to blow you. Oh, Simplex 2 Herpes?; I love the puss! YUM! Time for me to go down and get to work.