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The Hierarchical File System (HFS) was introduced in September 1985 by Apple Computers. The maximum volume size supported by HFS is 2 TB with a maximum file size of 2 GB. The maximum file name length is 255 characters, but the older Apple systems only used 31 characters.

As a Gmail user, you may want to maintain a separate backup of all email messages in your Gmail account for personal archiving purpose. Email back up is also useful in case you want to change your Gmail address to a different one, or switch to a completely different email provider. This tutorial describes how to back up and restore a Gmail account on Linux with Gmvault.

(Sacramento and Portland, OR, USA: August 27, 2013) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that DetaCloud (http://www.detacloud.com), a provider of enterprise cloud solutions built on OpenStack®, has joined LPI's Corporate Membership Program. DetaCloud will collaborate with LPI on accelerating Open Source Cloud technologies adoption and experiential training.

Enjoy this next article in the Linux Kernel series. We will continue configuring the PCI features following the most important characteristic of computers - networking.

Nagios provides a menu that can be modified to fit individual needs. In order to facilitate changes in the menu, you will need to modify the code which is in the PHP pages. This means that the menu may reflect the style and changes you want but it also means that you will need to copy any changes to prepare for updates which may revert back to the standard installation.

sshpass supplies password to ssh prompt using a dedicated tty , fooling ssh to believe that a interactive user is supplying password.

Shai Reshef dreams of making quality education affordable and accessible to everyone, and he sees the Internet as the road to get there. Reshef is the founder of University of the People (UoPeople), which bills itself as the world’s first tuition-free, degree-granting, non-profit online university.

The popular open-source virt-manager utility for managing virtual machines (commonly Linux KVM instances) now has a user-interface for finally dealing with VM snapshots...

As Microsoft's (MSFT) board seeks a new CEO to succeed Steve Ballmer, here are 10 ways the software and cloud giant must change under a new leader.

The second part is the Tahoe-LAFS gateway, which can be the same computer where the LAFS client is installed on or an intermediary computer between the client and the storage servers. The third and final part are, of course, the storage servers.

With the recent release of ZFS On Linux 0.6.2 that provides an open-source native Linux kernel module implementation of the Sun/Oracle ZFS file-system, the performance is faster, there are greater Linux kernel compatibility, and other improvements. Here's a fresh round of ZFS Linux benchmarks against EXT4 and Btrfs.

VMware isn't the only virtualization vendor showing off new technology this week, as Linux vendor Red Hat demonstrates upcoming CloudForms innovations.

The Tornado Web framework makes it easy to write RESTful APIs in Python. How easy? Have a look

I'm a board game designer. It's a fun, creative, scary job and worlds away from my former career in corporate advertising. In both fields, there is a high value placed on ideas, especially "new" ideas. No one wants to get scooped. Be it an ad campaign or a board game, you want to be the first out the door with it. So it may seem odd that I've spent ten years blogging my game design process. Every one of my harebrained concepts and fully-formed prototypes go up live, viewable by everyone. The question I get most often is: "Aren't you afraid someone will steal your idea?"

Can the development model that is used to build Linux be extended for the life sciences? A new collaborative project will aim to answer that question.

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook competes with a ghost -- the memory of Steve Jobs. Microsoft's (MSFT) next CEO must compete with a living legend: Chairman Bill Gates. Will the next Microsoft leader be up to that task?

While traditionally the middle-click mouse button has been a convenient way to paste rather than Ctrl + V on Unix-like systems, GNOME designers are looking to change it up for their desktop...

My family is in the middle of moving from one house to another. Part of that move involves arranging furniture. I'll be honest, I can move a couch across a room only so many times before I start to think perhaps there's a better way. Thankfully, there is.

Win Enterprises announced a Mini-ITX single-board computer for digital imaging and other embedded applications, built around quad- and dual-core AMD Embedded R-Series APUs. The Linux-friendly board features up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM, three HDMI ports and a DisplayPort, dual SATA 6.0 ports, eight USBs, dual gigabit Ethernet, and multiple PCIe and Mini-PCIe expansion options. […]

Today we are announcing the winner from a field of ten great blogs, all of which have already won our elimination round. Before that there were 19 truly great blogs in our competition, nine of which had been chosen by visitors to our site, the other ten being hand-picked by us here at FOSS Force as a way of getting things going. They are all winners just by dint of being in the running.