And there was much rejoicing!
Jared at 23x posted a great link to an analysis of the armageddon that struck Endor following Death Star II’s destruction. In summary:
No animal larger than a few kilograms and incapable of long sheltered hibernation could survive the Endorian calamity.
Bwahahahahaha. Too bad Jar-Jar wasn’t present at the time… or was he?
Macwork has a great tip for iPhoto users. Yeah, it’s old, so what?
Well, it looks like Mac OS X 10.5 might come with the option of using Sun Microsystem’s zettabyte files system (ZFS), which has some very interesting advantages over other file systems.
WorldOfApple.com has the details
For the record, a zettabyte is 10247 bytes, or 1.18059162 × 1021
That is 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes. The maximum size of a zfs drive is actually less than a zettabyte, as it can reference “only†16 exabytes (1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes or about 1.15 x1018)
There’s a great blog posting about ZFS by Jeff Bonwick, who is the primary developer at Sun behind ZFS. The title of the posting is the rather amusing, “128-bit storage: are you high?â€
As for why the filesystem is named ZFS when its maximal size is a mere 16 exabytes (well short of a zettabyte), Jeff explains in another posting that “Zettabyte File System” is a backronym and that he had to hunt around for something for the Z to stand for. He settled on zetta, the prefix for 1021.
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