Thursday, December 30, 2010

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

UCSD - University of California, San Diego

http://www.ucsd.edu/

Dr. Bing Zhu a member of the DICE UCSD team.  Also an author for iRODS.  His team has been incharge of the software design and development in Windows for SRB and now for iRODS.

Can be reached at 'bzhu@diceresearch.org' or 'bizhu@ucsd.edu'

POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix])

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

The name for a family of standards specified by the IEEE to define an API (application programming interface).  Originally done for Unix variants, but can be applied to any OS.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

With the 'file' command it cause the display to be in a mime format (text/plain; charset=us-ascii) rather than a human readable form (ASCII text).