People are welcome to join us at Google on Thursday, May 24, for an open-to-public talk on all things MacFUSE. I’m told that “Doors open at 6:30PM at Google’s Mountain View campus. Guests should plan to sign in at Building 41 reception upon arrival. Refreshments will be served…”
Here’s an abstract:
File systems provide one of the [...]
I’ve made available a MacFUSE-Based process file system for Mac OS X. Source code is included.
I just realized that my “posting” of the link to this nice tech video never got posted (network glitches are common in my current location).
The prolific Mike Pinkerton, who is the tech lead of the Google Desktop for the Mac project, made this video demonstrating some neat features of the product.
MacFUSE 0.2.5 and SSHFS for MacFUSE 0.2.0 bring several important and useful updates to the user.
Changelog for MacFUSE
Changelog for SSHFS
On the MacFUSE Project Page, you now have a new release of MacFUSE Core. Please be sure to upgrade as this fixes a nasty bug.
Besides, in the filesystems-objc subdirectory, you’ll find source for the Objective-C library that we used to create the file systems shown in the MacFUSE Tech Demos video.
You will also find the [...]
A new release is up at the MacFUSE project page.
0.2.0 adds several new features and fixes several bugs. New features include support for kqueue/kevent, advisory locking, full extended attributes support, support for extended security (ACLs), support for “direct I/O” (this allows the user-space file system to return less data than the file’s size, and MacFUSE [...]
There’s a new, much improved release of MacFUSE.
There’s an exciting new release of MacFUSE up on the project’s web site.
Even better, you can now also download SpotlightFS (you’ll have to try it out to see how cool it is) and a graphical interface for sshfs.
Enjoy!
The MacFUSE project page now contains a link to a brief video of some tech demos that I showed during my Macworld 2007 talk.
I gave a talk titled “Taming Mac OS X File Systems” at Macworld 2007 today. I also announced Google’s open source release of MacFUSE. Here are some relevant links:
The MacFUSE Page on Google Code
List of Wiki Articles on the Project Page
Slides from the Talk
Besides internal tech demos that I demonstrated during the talk, I’ve tested [...]
Let us try to make them a little cooler on Mac OS X.
I will be speaking at the following venues in the near future:
Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany (December 29, 2006)
Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, USA (January 11, 2007)
I usually find the security-related smugness of Mac users rather jarring. What’s often even more jarring is the reasoning behind such smugness. That said, I have to say that the recent furor regarding the so called OSX.Macarena “virus” amounts to, well, bullshit. If anti-virus companies are pretending to “recognize the threat” and therefore attempting to [...]
After I published Understanding Apple’s Binary Protection in Mac OS X, eWeek published a story on Apple’s binary encryption:
Apple Places Encrypted Binaries in Mac OS X
Although there’s nothing excessively misleading or incorrect in the story, to me, some parts of the story sounded like I had a conversation with eWeek. I did not. eWeek did [...]
Read about how to enable trusted computing on Mac OS X. The document’s coverage includes:
A discussion of the TPM hardware present in certain Macintosh computers
Release of an open source TPM driver for Mac OS X
Release of a Mac OS X port of an open source trusted computing software stack
An overview of using the driver and [...]
A discussion on how Apple’s binary protection works in the x86 version of Mac OS X:
Understanding Apple’s Binary Protection in Mac OS X