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Monday, 29th October 2007

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review. John Siracusa’s 17 page review of Leopard, covering everything from UI tweaks to DTrace sample code. Smart use of embedded video and audio too—I suggest setting aside at least an hour to work through it all.

# 8:55 am / apple, arstechnica, dtrace, john-siracusa, leopard, osx

How Time Machine works. From John Siracusa’s Leopard review. The bad news is that Time Machine doesn’t deal well with huge files that have small changes made to them... such as Parallels VM images.

# 9:56 am / apple, arstechnica, john-siracusa, leopard, osx, parallels, timemachine, virtualisation

LoggerFS. Clever use of FUSE: a virtual filesystem which looks out for lines appended to a log file (matched with a regular expression) and stores them in a database instead.

# 10:40 am / fuse, loggerfs, logging