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Samba 3.2 adds cluster support

The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes. Read more »

New Windows file system enters testing

Microsoft surprised developers on Monday by releasing a test version of a new Windows file system. Read more »

Apple will include ZFS in OS X Leopard: Sun

Sun Microsystem's Jonathon Schwartz said in the US yesterday that ZFS would be the "file system" for Leopard, Apple's forthcoming operating system. Read more »

Microsoft kills stand-alone WinFS project

Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than directly in its Windows operating system. Read more »

25-year-old BSD bug found and fixed

A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at least 25 years old. Read more »

Apple OS X flaw exposes Keychain password

Apple has confirmed a security glitch that, in many situations, will let someone with physical access to a Macintosh computer gain access to the password of the active user account. Read more »

GNOME 2.12 improves hardware integration

The latest version of GNOME includes improvements to its hardware integration capabilities, improving the user friendliness of the Linux desktop environment. Read more »

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Use FUSE to mount remote ssh directories

Traditional methods for uploading, downloading, or editing remote files predominantly have consisted of using an FTP client. An FTP client works fine for uploading and downloading, but editing remote files is a chore, as you have to download a file, edit it, then upload it again. And privacy with FTP is an issue as well. Read more »

Create encrypted loopback filesystems on Linux

Using the loopback filesystem interface, you can create encrypted filesystems very easily. These filesystems are great for storing sensitive documents be it SSH or GnuPG keys, financial documents, etc. Read more »

Keep an eye on file system changes with VB.NET's FileSystemWatcher

FileSystemWatcher is a component in Visual Studio .NET that allows you to respond to file system changes. It's very handy whenever you need to perform a certain action in response to a file being updated and in numerous other situations. Read more »

Mine /proc for system information

The /proc virtual filesystem is one of the most interesting virtual filesystems available on Linux. Here you can see more information about your running system than you would know what to do with, including system information, memory information, CPU information, and much more. Read more »

Know the basics about NTFS permissions

NTFS permissions offer a great deal of control when it comes to resources on your systems. Read more »

Automount filesystems with flexible AutoFS tool

AutoFS comes standard on almost every Linux system and let's you use automounting to have remote NFS shares available on demand. Read more »

Copy Oracle's Automatic Storage Management files with DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER

Oracle's Automatic Storage Management (ASM), introduced in Oracle 10g, provides an alternative to raw disk devices for storing Oracle-related files. Read more »

Manipulate a file system with VB.NET to see if files and directories exist

An important function of any program is the ability to work with a file system and manipulate files and directories. In this tip, we examine how to work with a file system using VB.NET. Read more »

Securely delete files with shred

Most users are familiar with the rm command. Most of the time, this command is sufficient for routine deletion, but for files that contain sensitive data, you might need to scrub them so that they cannot be recovered later with other data retrieval tools. Read more »

Define disk quotas to keep users from hogging drive space

With massive hard drives, one might be tempted to think disk quotas a thing of the past. However, with larger capacity comes larger amounts of data, and in multi-user systems, one user can easily consume more drive space than they should, preventing other users from utilising storage space. Read more »

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Live Blog: MIX 07 Keynote

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Live blog from the MIX 07 Keynote. Will we see an announcement regarding Silverlight? It certainly appears so. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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