ZFS

Jurgen Weber

ZFS is an exciting new file system developed by Sun and recently ported to FreeBSD. Many people are excited by the possibilities of ZFS (including us) as it promises to simplify a great many things. It offers:

• increased reliability through checksums, multiple copies of data and self-healing RAID
• elimination of that dreaded “oh, if only I’d made the /var partition larger” feeling.

Get Outlook to play nicely with the other children.

Sometimes people send us emails from Microsoft Outlook which are difficult to read and reply to. The problem is with Outlook itself which doesn’t follow standard internet rules and so doesn’t work well with other mail programs (even other mail programs written by Microsoft).
Since we don’t use Outlook, and instead use a range of other tools to read, archive and file emails, this sometimes causes problems.