Mac OS X 10.7 Lion sets, finds, corrects insecure folder permissions
Apple Insider
Apple reportedly informed developers that a number of folders in the System and Local file system domains would be changing their default permissions in Lion. This includes many system and Library folders moving from 775 (writable by the admin group) ...
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Terascala CFO on IT, Finance Hindrances
IDG News Service
Veteran financial officer Richard Block has embarked on a new adventure as CFO of Terascala, a Massachusetts-based, venture-funded manufacturer of high-performance parallel file system storage products. Veteran financial officer Richard Block has ...
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Reaction to House Patent Reform Bill
Patent Docs
Manzullo called the first-inventor-to-file section "an unfortunate provision that would shift America's current patent system -- where the first person to conceive of an invention is granted a patent -- to a 'first to file' system that would turn our ...
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Platform Tunes Symphony for Big Data Deluge
HPCwire
On the storage end, new techniques and file systems like the Hadoop file system (HDFS), which was built to tackle the demands of both structured and unstructured data, have been developed, but in Platform's view (which we'll expound on in a moment) ...
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Dropbox online file storage allows easy file transfers
Evansville Courier & Press
Dropbox is an online file storage system that stores your files in the cloud so you can access them from any Mac or PC that has the Dropbox desktop software installed, as well as your iPhone, iPad, Android device or the Dropbox.com website itself. ...
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Free: You Get What You Pay For
Marketwire (press release)
Fragmentation is the splitting of files into thousands or tens of thousands of pieces (fragments), which natively occurs with the file system. Defragmentation technology was invented long ago to solve this issue by "regrouping" these fragments into as ...
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5 things I hate about Mac storage - that Lion won't fix
ZDNet (blog)
Even after paying extra for Mobile Me and spending a few joyless hours wading through System Prefs and iOS menus, sync Nirvana eludes me. A combination of Dropbox, Pogoplug and an often faulty memory keep me from total chaos. HFS+, the Mac file system, ...
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It's World Backup Day — What Are You Doing About It?
Wired (blog)
Dropbox, for example, runs as a background application that monitors a folder on your hard drive, automatically checking for filesystem additions, deletions, and changes. When a modified file or folder is detected, the change is automatically ...
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