BigCommerce.com

May need to look into this verse an yahoo store.

Looks interesting.

Mounting an ext2 or ext3 drive to a MAC

UPDATE 8/19/2010!!! MACFUSE works, but is slow. I hooked a SSD through a USB external. Read speed when connected to a SATA controller are over 200MB/sec. Hooked through USB2.0 to linux over 50MB/sec... USB2.0 to MACFUSE 5MB/sec.

Others report that write access is in MACFUSE is flakey. I'm going with an unjournaled hfsplus for sharing between mac and linux.

Seems to me it should be built in.. But it isn't.

The bottom line as to the easiest way to share a disk between Mac and linux is to use a Mac File system (not journaled). Journaling seems to impair Linux from writing.

http://www.mguhlin.org/2010/01/mounting-linux-formatted-ext3-usb-drive.html

Not exactly true. Mac fuse with ext3 (journaled works fine too) There were a couple of problems that I had to figure out. You must partition the drive.. you cannot format /dev/sda.. it must /dev/sda1... or something like that. Otherwise it only mounts readonly. Further, the automounting only works readonly as well. So if you manually mount then you can have rw access.

http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/DisplayComments.php?file=Computer/Mac%20OS/Read.Write_EXT2.EXT3_Volumes_on_Mac_OS_X

sudo fuse-ext2 -o rw+ /dev/disk1s1 /Users/matt/tmp/

The above link also leads me to believe that I can automount rw... still need to experiment.

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/
sudo ./fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1s2 /Volumes/journeyer/ -o force

Mac dot underscore (._) or AppleDot problem

http://www.litfuel.net/plush/?postid=147

"So it seems OSX likes to add ._ (dot-underscore or AppleDot) copies of files when transferring files between operating systems."

Seems to be a finder issue
from the bash: export COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE =true You could also try ftp/scp before you tar the files (since it's the tar itself that creates the resource forks).

Software quality assurance - lifecycle

http://www.asknumbers.com/QualityAssuranceandTesting.aspx

Send large files download link in email

Http://www.dropsend.com

Limited recipients and number of up and downloads on free account. But you are able to send a 2GB file with ease.

Similar to http://ngsafe.northropgrumman.com

Sent from my iPod

Performance tests with USB thumb drive and a USB sata drive

Copied 4047503360 bytes (4GB) from external SATA drive to local SSD hard drive over USB
time cp Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso ~
3:16 minutes
19.69 MB/sec


Copied same file back to external SATA over USB
cp ~/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso /Volumes/UNTITLED/
2:45 minutes
23.39 MB/sec


Read same file from SATA drive over USB
time cat /Volumes/UNTITLED/iso-install/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso > /dev/null
1:49 minutes
35.41 MB/sec


Read same file from SSD
time cat ~/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso > /dev/null
31 seconds
124.52 MB/sec


Copied 676411392 bytes (645MB) from external thumb to local SSD hard drive over usb
time cp /Volumes/4GB\ THUMB/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso ~
42 seconds
15.36 MB/sec


Copied same file back to external SATA over USB
time cp ~/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso /Volumes/4GB\ THUMB/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso.2
1:24 minutes
7.68 MB/sec


Read same file from USB thumb drive
time cat /Volumes/4GB\ THUMB/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso > /dev/null
31 seconds
20.81 MB/sec