OS X Disk Journaling. Science Askew.

OS X Disk Journaling

From bbum’s rants, code & references:

Apple has released tech notes 107248 and 107249 which describe the journaling features of OS X 10.2.2.

Article #107248 describes how to enable journaling. Kindly, Apple provided both the UI driven instructions for OS X Server and the command line instructions that can be used on OS X client (and server).

Article #107249 provides a general overview of the journaling features on OS X, how it is implemented and the benefits gained when using Journaling.

Science Askew

(via /.) Short book review by someone with a name out of a noir potboiler. :)

Stella Daily writes "When the cool kids make fun of the geeks, the results are often lacking in wit (‘Hey, Four-Eyes!’) or simply inaccurate. We’ve all heard the joke about the computer programmer who, when given the choice of transforming a frog into a beautiful princess with a kiss, declines, saying he has no need for a beautiful woman, ‘but a talking frog is REALLY cool!’" Read on for the rest of Stella’s brief review of Science Askew to find out whether insiders can do a better job.