Ext2 compression extension 0.4.44 (Linux 2.4)

Grok Headline matches for Ext2 compression extension 0.4.44 (Linux 2.4)

Information leak in the Linux kernel
ext2 implementation

Information leak in the Linux kernel
ext2 implementation 04/01/2005 05:06 PM
Arkoon Security Team (Apr 01 2005)

Delta Compression for Linux Security
Patches?

Delta Compression for Linux Security
Patches? 09/03/2004 09:38 PM

Update: Popwire Compression Engine 2.1,
Compression Master 3.1

Update: Popwire Compression Engine 2.1,
Compression Master 3.1 04/14/2005 10:22 AM
Popwire will update its desktop and server-side digital media encoders with H.264 (AVC) video, 2-pass Flash video, High Definition (HD) support, full QuickTime integration, and more.

Innovation in Linux Server-Side
Compression Technology

Innovation in Linux Server-Side
Compression Technology 03/24/2005 05:13 AM
Optimize Hosting Tech’s new software package allows for Images as well as HTML and text to be compressed, increasing website download time, and resulting in huge bandwidth and server space savings. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem

Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem 03/13/2003 05:01 PM
Release 1.0d4

Ext2 File System Driver for NT/2K/XP

Ext2 File System Driver for NT/2K/XP 12/26/2003 12:25 PM
Ext2Fsd v0.20 is released.

Dump/Restore ext2/ext3 filesystem backup

Dump/Restore ext2/ext3 filesystem backup 12/21/2003 06:09 AM
Dump 0.4b35 released

Tcl compression driver

Tcl compression driver 09/01/2004 09:34 AM
Initial Release

Compression, conditional GET

Compression, conditional GET 07/19/2004 02:55 PM

Jason Cook writes for WebMonkey about gzip compression and conditional GET for RSS and Atom feeds.

Both are important for lowering bandwidth use. If I had to rank them, I’d say conditional GET is more important—but I find that there are lots of sites, even some very popular sites, that still don’t support conditional GET.

It looks like most (if not all) of the popular weblog hosting systems support conditional GET, which is very cool. It appears to be mainly custom content management systems used by one or just a few sites that tend not to support it. You can almost count on lack of support if the RSS or Atom feed is generated live by a script instead of being served as a static file.

(Note that I intend no disrespect for people and organizations that develop their own systems—I myself use a custom system written in PHP.)

XML Compression Tools

XML Compression Tools 06/08/2004 06:57 PM
Version 0.97 recall

Compression Scripts for Big Cat

Compression Scripts for Big Cat 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Michael Grant posted some scripts for stuffing and zipping selected files.

More on RSS and gzip compression

More on RSS and gzip compression 01/04/2004 06:58 PM
Ted Leung follows up to my post from yesterday with more about RSS and gzip compression.

“So I’ve been looking at the statistics, and it’s not looking good out there folks,” Ted writes. “As far as gzipped feeds go, about 10% of the feeds in my NNW (about 900) are gzipped.”

Compression Tool

Compression Tool 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
Ver 1.1.7 Beta 3

File-compression needs condensed

File-compression needs condensed 06/26/2004 07:29 AM
Chicago Tribune Jun 26 2004 12:12PM GMT

Package Compression Performance

Package Compression Performance 08/08/2004 12:17 AM

Kick The Compression Habit

Kick The Compression Habit 07/28/2004 10:11 PM
The iPod has the capacity of providng true hi-fi audio; it's just not being marketed that way. By Gary Krakow, MSNBC (via MyAppleMenu)

GIF LZW Compression Patent Expires

GIF LZW Compression Patent Expires 06/21/2004 11:04 AM

At long last, the LZW compression patent has expired. It expired in the US on June 20, 2003, but it didn't expire in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan until last week. I remember having to obtain a license to support GIF display in HomeSite, so I join the thousands of other license holders in celebrating the end of this patent.

3Dc Texture Compression Demo

3Dc Texture Compression Demo 06/28/2004 11:55 AM

Mesh Compression for 3D Graphics

Mesh Compression for 3D Graphics 06/16/2004 10:44 PM

Enabling HTTP Compression

Enabling HTTP Compression 06/16/2004 01:23 PM

RSS Bandwidth and Gzip compression

RSS Bandwidth and Gzip compression 01/03/2004 04:35 PM
There are several ways to cut down on the amount of bandwidth your RSS feeds use.

The very best way is to make sure your server returns 304 Not Modified responses. (See HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers for more details.)

But today I’m talking about another method (which should be used in addition to conditional Get): gzip compression.

The idea is simple: the server compresses the feed before returning it to your newsreader. This means less bandwidth is used because fewer bytes are transferred.

One of the nice things about this is that if a given newsreader doesn’t support gzip compression, a server will return an uncompressed feed, so you’re not locking anybody out. But it turns out that lots of newsreaders do support gzip compression, so it really is worth the effort. (Ted Leung has been maintaining a list of which newsreaders support it.)

Today I (finally) turned on gzip compression for my feeds. (Here’s a handy page you can use to check for gzip compression on any URL.)

Since my feeds are generated by PHP, I used Dean Allen’s super-easy instructions for turning on gzip compression. If your feeds are static files (which is probably the best choice) then you can probably use Apache’s mod_gzip or mod_deflate.

Update: Popwire Compression Engine 1.6

Update: Popwire Compression Engine 1.6 04/21/2004 10:16 AM
The server-side digital media encoding and transcoding software adds improved speed, wider format support, Popwire Monitor (a graphical Mac OS X tool for monitoring and managing the software), and other changes.

Dr. Dobb's Data Compression Newsletter

Dr. Dobb's Data Compression Newsletter 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
webreview.com Mar 8 2004 11:56PM GMT

Other News: Apple Lossless Compression

Other News: Apple Lossless Compression 06/02/2004 10:32 AM
Al Fasoldt reports on the new audio format introduced in iTunes 4.5.

Gooeynix puts interface on .tar
compression

Gooeynix puts interface on .tar
compression 09/17/2004 08:14 AM
Digital Wake Enterprises has released Gooeynix, a Mac OS X utility that puts a graphical interface on manipulation of Unix ".tar" file archives. With Gooeynix you can more easily create archives -- known as "tarballs" -- and extract compressed files and directories, unarchive tarballs, add files to existing archives and more. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2 or later, G4 or later and 725K of disk space. Gooeynix 1.0 costs US$5.

Compression Engine 1.5 OS X adds new DV
features

Compression Engine 1.5 OS X adds new DV
features 02/19/2004 08:35 AM
Companies that handle a large amount of digital content may want to take a look at Popwire Technology's Compression Engine, which allows users to build large media coding farms and distribute content in multiple formats between different systems. The Swedish developer announced on Wednesday that version Compression Engine 1.5 is now available.

Microsoft IIS 6 Compression: Doing More
With Less With Port 80 Software

Microsoft IIS 6 Compression: Doing More
With Less With Port 80 Software 04/21/2004 02:02 AM
IIS Resources Apr 21 2004 6:42AM GMT

Web Exclusive: Technology's Time
Compression

Web Exclusive: Technology's Time
Compression 05/31/2004 05:41 AM
What should you do when the state of mind becomes a state of time?

Automated StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 compression

Automated StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 compression 08/03/2004 09:18 AM
I just discovered the coolest feature of the latest StuffIt version (well, version 8.0 at least). I've only tried this under a fully patched up copy of Panther, but if you've got a folder or file to compress, simply add the c...

Review: Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression
Suite

Review: Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression
Suite 03/30/2005 05:43 PM
Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite excels at compressing video to common Web and CD-ROM formats, especially if your needs revolve around the Flash or MPEG-4 formats.

NAB: Popwire ships Compression Master
2.3, Engine 1.6

NAB: Popwire ships Compression Master
2.3, Engine 1.6 04/20/2004 06:01 PM
Popwire Technology has shipped Compression Master 2.3, the new version of their media encoding application, and Compression Engine 1.6, the latest iteration of their server-side media coding software.

Compression Engine 2 adds MPEG-2, DV
transcoding

Compression Engine 2 adds MPEG-2, DV
transcoding 12/22/2004 01:43 AM
Stockholm, Sweden-based Popwire on Tuesday announced that it is shipping Compression Engine 2, a digital media encoding system for broadcasters, media companies and others. Compression Engine 2 runs on Mac OS X and enables users to encode video to and from common media standards -- distributing to television, post-production, Web or mobile phones.

News: NAB: Squeeze 4.1 video compression
software released

News: NAB: Squeeze 4.1 video compression
software released 04/18/2005 10:13 AM
Sorenson Media on Monday announced the release of Sorenson Squeeze v4.1, the latest update to its video encoding and compression software for Mac OS X. The new version adds the ability to set destinations for compressed video files, introduces support for aacPlus audio and interoperates with optional Windows Media 9 encoding components.

macosxhints - 10.3: Use a Folder Action
script for easier zip compression

macosxhints - 10.3: Use a Folder Action
script for easier zip compression 12/02/2003 01:47 AM
Anonymous: "While Panther's Finder's contextual menu allows Zip compression of files with its 'Create Archive of ...' this still requires bringing up the contextual menu, selecting the option .. and then 'cleaning up' the original file and newly created archive.zip. As Panther has the attached Folder Actions, I figured this could be used to shortcut the process and consolidate the file/archive within one place. Luckily 'Sal from Cupertino' picked up on my query in this regard, and provided the following script to compile with the AppleScript Script Editor."

Insurer uses Wan compression to avoid
having to install additional leased
lines

Insurer uses Wan compression to avoid
having to install additional leased
lines 01/26/2004 10:58 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 27 2004 2:39AM GMT

RPM Delta Compression Virtual Update
Repository 0.1.1 (Default branch)

RPM Delta Compression Virtual Update
Repository 0.1.1 (Default branch) 04/05/2005 06:32 AM
RPM Delta Compression Virtual Update Repository is an experiment to explore the possibility of significantly reducing the bandwidth required to apply updates to a Fedora installation. This software includes a server which provides a virtual update repository to clients such as yum, up2date, or other update tools. It also includes a utility to create and maintain a RPM delta repository. The server will attempt to generate the update RPM from a small delta file applied to a locally stored RPM from the original distribution.

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Changes:
A few bugs in handling byte range requests from yum were fixed.

Dr. Dobb's Data Compression Newsletter
Issue #43 - June 2003

Dr. Dobb's Data Compression Newsletter
Issue #43 - June 2003 04/16/2004 07:39 AM
DDJ Apr 16 2004 11:28AM GMT

Crippin - Password-Based File Encryption
and Compression for the Pocket PC

Crippin - Password-Based File Encryption
and Compression for the Pocket PC 04/11/2004 10:43 AM

Indra Networks Offers Hardware-Based
Data Compression

Indra Networks Offers Hardware-Based
Data Compression 03/17/2005 03:23 AM
StorCompress 200, aimed at the enterprise market, is a disk-to-disk storage product that uses the industry-standard "deflate" algorithm for compression in hardware; StorCompress 100 is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.
Grok Description matches for Ext2 compression extension 0.4.44 (Linux 2.4)
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Getting a rise out of Reiser4

Getting a rise out of Reiser4 08/28/2004 01:03 AM

Last time I looked at ReiserFS was, I think, at least couple of years ago.It was a nice file system but I didn't find any use for it.  Two years later, Reiser4 is released and I still can't find a good use for it, but it sure has some intriguing one liner feature list that would any geek a bit of excitement:

• Reiser4 is the fastest filesystem, and here are the benchmarks.
• Reiser4 is an atomic filesystem, which means that your filesystem operations either entirely occur, or they entirely don't, and they don't corrupt due to half occuring. We do this without significant performance losses, because we invented algorithms to do it without copying the data twice.
• Reiser4 uses dancing trees, which obsolete the balanced tree algorithms used in databases (see farther down). This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other filesystems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do. It also means that Reiser4 scales better than any other filesystem. Do you want a million files in a directory, and want to create them fast? No problem.
• Reiser4 is based on plugins, which means that it will attract many outside contributors, and you'll be able to upgrade to their innovations without reformatting your disk. If you like to code, you'll really like plugins....
• Reiser4 is architected for military grade security. You'll find it is easy to audit the code, and that assertions guard the entrance to every function.

Dancing trees?  I gotta look into that algorithm sometimes.  I wonder if variations of the algorithms will be called Disco or Samba?  ;-)  Hmm.  One of the testimonials is LivingXML which is a native XML engine built-on top of Reiser.  That's nice except LivingXML seems to be, well, dead.  Oh, well.

Reiser4 file semantics: An opportunity
for open source

Reiser4 file semantics: An opportunity
for open source 09/09/2004 05:28 AM
Some people feel that the Reiser4 file semantics will present problems for the Linux community. In a nutshell, every file now looks like a directory and can be opened as a directory. The names in that directory are not new files but metadata associated with the file, as documented by Hans Reiser on the Namesys site. The immediate response in the community has been that this is too big a change and should be withdrawn. I humbly propose that this is a challenge we should face head on now or we may not have an opportunity to do so in the future.

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta4

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta4 04/12/2004 04:48 AM
An Amiga Smart FileSystem driver for Linux.

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta1

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta1 12/04/2003 08:26 PM
An Amiga Smart FileSystem driver for Linux.

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta5
(Kernel-2.6)

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta5
(Kernel-2.6) 05/09/2004 05:12 PM
An Amiga Smart FileSystem driver for Linux.

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta6
(Kernel-2.6)

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta6
(Kernel-2.6) 06/03/2004 08:18 PM
An Amiga Smart FileSystem driver for Linux.

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta7
(Kernel-2.6)

ASFS filesystem driver 1.0beta7
(Kernel-2.6) 06/25/2004 06:47 PM
An Amiga Smart FileSystem driver for Linux.

Ext2 compression extension 0.4.44 (Linux 2.4)

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