Bizarre HFS+ Tricks in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history on 11. Sep, 2009 | View Comments
I don’t usually excerpt large amounts of text from other blogs. But this is just too cool. UNIX nerds and Mac OS X weenies alike will either shake their heads and jump out a window or laugh out loud at one of the under-reported changes in Snow Leopard.
See, Snow Leopard’s version of HFS+ allows per-file [...]
Access NTFS Volumes On Your Mac
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
Most Mac switchers still have some Windows NTFS-formatted drives around. Maybe it’s an external USB disk. Or maybe you’re using Boot Camp. Whatever the reason, Mac users often want to access NTFS volumes within OS X. There are two popular ways to accomplish this:
Use the excellent and free NTFS-3G driver
Buy Paragon Software’s Paragon NTFS
We Need a Storage Revolution
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage on 28. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
Storage protocols continue to mimic direct attached storage, with the concepts of block and file at its core. No amount of virtualization, and no new protocol, will fix this – we need a storage revolution.
OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Virtual Storage on 03. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
In my last post, I discussed the simple but confusing steps required to add custom icons to Mac OS X drives. I mentioned that there were some tricks to getting custom icons on some drives, however, including Boot Camp and NTFS disks. This week, I’ll show how to customize these as well.
There are two core [...]
