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ZFS and OS X meet again?
I just came across a reference to ZEVO tonight. This appears to be an add-on package for OS X that is built on top of ZFS. I'm going to have to keep an eye on this. Snapshots, data checksumming, de-dup, compression and zfs send/recv would be pretty cool on my Laptop…
$ read more →To iPad or not to iPad, that is the question for my readers
Even though I'm your typical IT geek, I'm not one to jump on technology just because it's new. I like to wait until technology stabilizes, prices drop and the lines at your favorite geek store decrease in size. I'm fortunate to have a Macbook Pro, and use it for just about everything I do. While I love my laptop the size and weight have always been a draw back for me…
$ read more →Viewing man pages as a pdf on OS X
Picked up this neat little trick on command-line-fu. Read any UNIX man page in OS X as a pdf in preview
$ read more →pbcopy / pbpaste in OS X
I came across a nifty utility in OS X that allows you to copy / paste data to/from the clipboard without having to select text and command+c/command+v Michael-MacBook-Pro:~ (michael)> echo foo | pbcopy Michael-MacBook-Pro:~ (michael)> pbpaste foo Thats kind of neat. What about connecting to a remote machine, executing some command, and then having that output in the clipboard of your local machine? Michael-MacBook-Pro:~ (michael)> ssh somehost.com uptime | pbcopy Michael-MacBook-Pro:~ (michael)> pbpaste 5:26pm up 64 day(s), 8:30, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.04
$ read more →Apple file vault and good backups save the day!
I frequently travel with my Apple powerbook, and have always been concerned that someone might steal my laptop, or the disk drive would fail (this is ahuge single point of failure). To address both concerns, I enabled file vault to encrypt my home folder, and backup my data once a week to a central file store. File vault does slow down certain operations, but it works great if you use your laptop for surfing the web, checking email, and chatting with folks online. Well -- this weekend one of my concerns came to fruition…
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