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10.7

Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS”

February 16, 2012 By Stephen 35 Comments

Let me put on my “grumpy old storage guy” hat for a moment: CIFS is not the network storage protocol used by Microsoft Windows, and many other clients. CIFS is dead, and has been for many years. The protocol used to share files over a LAN by the majority of personal computers is called SMB. I wish everyone in the industry would get that through their heads. Dear marketers: If … [Read more...] about Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS”

The Case of the Missing Letters: Another Obnoxious Bug in Dragon Dictate

January 16, 2012 By Stephen 6 Comments

What's a love-hate relationship without the love? Whatever that is, that's what I've got going with my copy of Dragon Dictate. I've long been a fan of dictation software, but the bugs and usability flubs in this product continually annoy me. Now it appears that the automatic spell checker in Mac OS X Lion causes Dragon to lose its mind and continually drop a random character … [Read more...] about The Case of the Missing Letters: Another Obnoxious Bug in Dragon Dictate

Undocumented CoreStorage Commands

August 5, 2011 By Stephen 19 Comments

Yesterday I noted that Apple included a full logical volume manager in Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" without so much as a word. Today I am pleased to say that CoreStorage is much more functional than I had guessed, including a number of undocumented but seemingly functional commands for on-the-fly resizing of logical volumes as well as manipulation of physical volumes. Read on for the … [Read more...] about Undocumented CoreStorage Commands

Mac OS X Lion Adds CoreStorage, a Volume Manager (Finally!)

August 4, 2011 By Stephen 15 Comments

Apple fan boys won't like to hear this, but Mac OS X was majorly deficient in an area near and dear to my heart. You see, unlike every other modern operating system, Mac OS X lacked a volume manager. This wouldn't seem like a big deal to the average user, but it held back the operating system in many ways. A volume manager brings storage virtualization to an operating system, … [Read more...] about Mac OS X Lion Adds CoreStorage, a Volume Manager (Finally!)

Three Key Storage Features Missing in Mac OS X “Lion”

June 13, 2011 By Stephen 3 Comments

Last week, at WWDC, Apple introduced many of the features found in their next operating system, OS X “Lion”. At that time, I posted an article about the storage features found in this new release, including integrated revision control, a major update to the FileVault encryption package, and additional enterprise storage protocol support. But, like Snow Leopard, Lion still lacks … [Read more...] about Three Key Storage Features Missing in Mac OS X “Lion”

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