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Submission + - Apple discontinues ZFS project 4

Submitted by Zaurus on Friday October 23, 2009 @03:44PM

Zaurus writes: Apple has replaced its ZFS project page with a notice that "The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." Apple originally touted ZFS as a feature that would be available in Snow Leopard Server. A few months before release, all mention of ZFS was removed from the Apple web site and literature, and ZFS was notably absent from Snow Leopard Server at launch. Despite repeated attempts to get clarification about their plans from ZFS, Apple has not made any official statement regarding the matter. A zfs-macos google group has been set up for members of apple's zfs-discuss mailing list to migrate to, as many people had started using the unfinished ZFS port already. The call is out for developers who can continue the forked project.

Comment Re:QuestHelper (Score 1) 344

by Durin_Deathless on Saturday March 21, 2009 @01:08PM (#27279825) Attached to: Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons

You can write an upgrade notifier like what Carbonite uses - include the version with quest sharing data, then old versions can notice they're out of date and let the user know they need to upgrade.

Higgs Territory Continues To Shrink 118

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 13, 2009 @12:02PM from the hoggamus-higgamus dept.

PhysicsDavid writes "Announced this morning by Fermilab, the possible territory for the Higgs boson has shrunk even further. Combined results from the CDF and DZero experiments at the Tevatron have ruled out the existence of the Higgs with a mass between 160 and 170 GeV/c^2 with 95% confidence. At 90% confidence the Higgs is ruled out between about 157 and 185 GeV/c^2. Here is Fermilab's press release. If the Higgs is to be found at the lighter end of the currently allowed range of 114 GeV/c^2 to 185 GeV/c^2, its detection will be harder than at the heavier end due to the kinds of signals that the Large Hadron Collider and the Tevatron will see. Some physicists think that a lighter Higgs will be easier to spot at the Tevatron as the background processes which obscure the faint signal are not as prevalent in those experiments."

Comment Re:Your wife (Score 0) 1027

by fenfiralcain on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @04:36PM (#23243726) Attached to: Disillusioned With IT?

lets be honest here, how many Americans do you think there are that can see their navels?

Comment Re:Accurate? Not for me (Score 1) 115

by Durin_Deathless on Thursday February 21, 2008 @02:45PM (#22505748) Attached to: Ohloh Tracks Open Source Developers

Commits are definitely a bad metric - for one of the projects I'm involved with it shows I have 24 out of something like 800 commits, which doesn't factor in the commits I made while it was still a private project in a repo with other things, and it doesn't count research and political work required to make the project happen. Also, lots of my contributions to things have been submitting a patch, which got me a mention in the commit log, but Ohloh doesn't pick up on that.

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