Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Unexpectedly Playing a Part in US/China Trade War
Chinese buyers are canceling orders to buy US squid in advance of an expected 25% tariff.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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echo • July 6, 2018 5:18 PM
Does the BeOS file system potentially contain UTF-8 and regex security holes?
From OSNews
http://www.osnews.com/story/30552/The_BeOS_file_system_an_OS_geek_retrospective
It’s a bit of a slow news week in technology this week due the US celebrating Independence Day this past 4 July, so Ars decided to repost this article about BFS, and I’m nothing if not a sucker for BeOS content, so here it goes.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
From the archives: In the ’90s, OS geeks adored BFS’s ahead-of-its-time feature set.
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For a high-level overview of numerous file systems, refer to the article From BFS to ZFS: Past, Present and Future File Systems. For a more in-depth look at HPFS, NTFS, EXT2, and XFS circa 2000, refer to chapter 3 of Practical File System Design.
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/03/past-present-future-file-systems.ars/
http://www.letterp.com/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf