So while you can work around the speedy, but decidedly cramped quarters of your SSD, what we really want to do is tell the OS that your home folder “lives” on a different drive. After all, 1TB hard drives are way cheap these days, relatively speaking. Plus, you have a MacPro with a zillion SATA bays in it, right? The following instructions tell you how to move your home folder from your spiffy SSD over to less constrained quarters. You’ll still boot off the SSD and run your apps from it, so your computing life will move faster than you ever thought possible, but all those pesky personal bits will be somewhere else.

Well, in case you haven't read any of the myriad stories about it, it appears that Apple has decided not to use ZFS on Mac OS X. Gruber has sources that say it was primarily licensing concerns, which is consistent with what people have implied to me, both recently, and around WWDC (although at that time I think there was probably still hope of resolving the issues).

Now, some people jump may comment that it couldn't be licensing issues, since ZFS is opensource (under the CDDL), and that Apple already uses CDDL software (DTrace). That may be true, but often in deals that involve large companies there is more to it than that. Apple may have wanted guarantees of indemnification in the NetApp lawsuit. Maybe it wanted guarantees that certain modifications it wanted to make would be accepted upstream, or even to get Sun to make certain changes. It also might have wanted additional distribution rights that were not granted under the CDDL. It is typical for companies to negotiate custom agreements in such cases (and for some money to change hands), so the idea that licensing issues are why it fell through is entirely reasonable, even though it is an opensource product. Obviously Sun's steady decline in the market place, and the uncertainty caused by the Oracle acquisition may have greatly complicated any such negotiations.

Computer historian Jason Scott gave a slideshow presentation titled "The Atomic Level of Porn" at monochrom's Arse Elektronika 2009 in San Francisco.

When you upgrade your Mac computer to the Snow Leopard operating system, the guest account is automatically enabled. This means that individuals without accounts on your computer can log in as a guest and have restricted access to the system's applications. If you do not want guests to have this ability, you can disable the account through System Preferences.

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The DualDrive replaces your internal optical drive with a hard drive of your choice (Only 2.5" SATA drives will work in the Dual Drive). As a result, you will no longer have a CD drive in your unit. You can still have an external cd drive by purchasing an external drive such as our External Superdrive DVD/CD Burner and Reader

There has been a lot of discussion about running Flash apps on the iPhone over the last few days. It was precipitated by Adobe's announcement that Flash Professional CS5 would have support for publishing apps as iPhone native executables. They went into a little more detail, saying that they were going to use an Ahead of Time (AOT) compiler backend based on LLVM, and that there are already several apps on the store using it. This generated a large number of responses from various people, some knee-jerk, some well reasoned out. Of course, the fact that there are samples we can dissect means that it is possible to make some informed analysis about them.