Check out this video from Microsoft promoting windows 386. It uses a Mission Impossible like theme and gets really bizarre from about half way through the clip.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the Apple iPhone (understatement of the year) and its relative merits or lack of them (all speculation of course since it hasn’t hit the stores yet) what really struck me about the planning that has gone into this is the report that Apple bought the company that developed the multi-touch technology, FingerWorks, over two years ago.

I’m still not completely sold on the iPhone yet - I don’t think it will have the power and extensibility for me. I currently have a Treo 650 and whilst it is a 2 year old phone it does everything that I need. Things like editing word docs, SMS with history, reading ebooks, playing games etc. The iPhone is a closed system (at this stage) and I think it will need developer support to turn it from a fancy ipod with phone capabilities into a true smart phone.

The innovative guys (and gals) at Google have released FUSE for Mac. Straight from their homepage

MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). It aims to be API-compliant with the FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) mechanism that originated on Linux. Therefore, many existing FUSE file systems become readily usable on Mac OS X. The core of MacFUSE is in a dynamically loadable kernel extension.

How FUSE-compliant is MacFUSE? Well, enough so that many popular FUSE file systems can be easily compiled and work on Mac OS X–often out of the box. Examples of file systems that work have been tested (to varying degrees) include sshfs, ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS), ftpfs (read/write FTP), wdfs (WebDAV), cryptofs, encfs, bindfs, unionfs, beaglefs (yes, including the entire Beagle paraphernalia), and so on.

Why is this so exciting you ask? Well it will support http://www.ntfs-3g.org/. This means that you can read/write NTFS file structures now on the mac! This is something that has bugged me for a little while in that whilst it is easy to read/write FAT-32 formatted disks you can’t do the same for NTFS. Now with MacFUSE you should be able to mount an NTFS drive and be able to do more than just read it.