links for 2006-02-10

Do it Yourself .mac Setting up your own .Mac-like account is pretty easy if you’ve got acess to a webserver running Apache2 and have the ability to add (or already have added) the web_dav module. Here’s a straightforward tutorial on setting up a web_dav account on Apache2. (tags: apache admin mac macintosh webdav Apple diy…

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Sweet! FreeNAS Rocks!

One of the coolest things I’ve come across in a long time is this awesome Free Network Attached Storage that virtually creates a file server. Even on a usb key! SourceForge.net: FreeNAS FreeNAS is a Free NAS (Network Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB…

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links for 2006-02-09

Augustine Volcano Eruption Page Alaska’s Augustine Volcano is in the middle of erupting and emits ash and steam in violent displays nearly everyday. Check out the Alaska Volcano homepage for live webcam images as well as obsrevations, seismic data, and ash fall predictions. (tags: cool Earth geology nature Travel video volcano web webcam alaska Science)

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Students’ Suspended After Drinking Reported in Blogs

Here’s an idea for all you high school kids: if you go to a party, don’t blog it. Yahoo! News: “In this case, however, the students were caught after parents reported discovering the photos posted to online journals known as Web logs, or ‘blogs,’ and personal Web sites such as Xanga, Myspace and Facebook. The…

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Mac Firefox on Your Mac Look Like A Mac App

Takebacktheweb.org is hosting Aronax’s Graphite Firefox themes for Firefox users who want to make Firefox look more Mac-like and less Linux-like or varying combinations of both. My personal favorite was the Grapple Eos. They’re for Mac’s only so you window users will have to wait a while. [Go there now]

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Nick Bradbury Says No to Microsoft

Nick Bradbury, creator of the wonderful FeedDemon RSS aggregator, TopStyle CSS editor and HomeSite (the longtime standard in HTML editing) is sounding off about Internet Explorer 7’s new Feeds API. Nick Bradbury: “I can’t give customer data to Microsoft without some idea of how this data will be used.” Frankly, I quite agree. There’s no…

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Hackers, and Cheaters OH MY!

Recently I’ve come across a very interesting, and not unheard of problem, with playing games online…cheaters. Doing a little digging on the subject I came across this awesome video someone was nice enough to make of one such cheater who didn’t care how obvious it was what he was doing. [Download the video]

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What You Don’t Know About Fast Food May Just Hurt You

AskMen.com has a great and very eye opening look at some of the mysteries behind fast food that the big corporations probably don’t want you to know. AskMen.com: One out of every four people in the U.S. eats fast food every day and one out of every five toddlers eats fries every day. The “golden…

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