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Linked List: April 22, 2005

Friday, 22 April 2005

Union Filesystems ★: Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch with an intro/overview of “union filesystems”, an interesting feature I’d never before heard about, which Mac OS X has inherited from BSD:

A union filesystem is kind of like onion-skin paper for your filesystem. You take one filesystem and “overlay” it on top on another. Your system will present one logical filesystem, featuring a combination of both filesystems in a very specific way.
OJR Article on Blogger Salaries ★: Gawker’s pay scale is “byzantine”; Weblogs Inc. has abandoned its 50-50 advertising split with its authors. (Via Mike Davidson.)
Comcast Aiding RIAA in Extortion ★: Comcast provided the RIAA with broadband customer information — without a court order, and without notifying the customers — which the RIAA in turn used to extort thousands of dollars of compensation for “illegal” music downloads. Disgraceful. (Via Andy Baio.)
Shiira 0.9.5 ★: Update version of the open source Web Kit-based browser for Mac OS X. Introduces a a new “tab exposé” feature that looks interesting, and it finally supports bookmarklets. (Via Jesper via email.)
Java Problems With Mac OS X 10.3.9 Update ★: If after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3.9 you’re unable to run Java programs, you’re not alone. Apple has a KnowledgeBase article that documents the problem and offers some workarounds.
Slow Login With Many PostScript Fonts ★: Further confirmation of the font-related login delay bug in 10.3.6-10.3.8, from Apple’s KnowledgeBase. Specifically mentions that the problem could get worse each time you log in.
GraphicConverter Saves Pogue’s Bacon ★: Or at least it saved his photos. He’d taken a bunch of RAW format pictures to accompany his New York Times review of the Canon Digital Rebel XT. Photoshop couldn’t read the files, but GraphicConverter could. (Via Nat Irons, via email.)
Netflix Freak 2.1 ★: Now with support for multiple Netflix accounts.