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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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
A discussion on customizing kernel panic graphical dialogs and testing such customizations… A New Screen of Death for Mac OS X
I was told by my publisher that there was a long back-order queue for the book because they had sold out the first printing. It took a while to print the next lot. Strictly speaking, the next printing has been available for almost two weeks now, but the Addison-Wesley page for the book has just [...]
Something to look at: Mac OS X Internals Flyer
FYI: I will be holding a Mac OS X Internals workshop on Thursday, August 10th, 12:00 noon at the San Francisco Apple Store. This is a part of Apple’s “WWDC: Meet the Authors” line of Apple-store events. More details here (look for the August 10 calendar entry).
The very first chapter I wrote for Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach was the “history” chapter. My goal was to create a comprehensive and detailed book. I deemed it important for the reader to understand the long and eventful journey toward Mac OS X. Therefore, I wrote the chapter as a technical history [...]