Bookmarks

This page is a random collection of cool, useful, or otherwise worthwhile links. It’s somewhat akin to bookmarks / favorites in a browser, except public.

Friends & Accomplices

• My fellow bloggers:
  • Andrew, photographer and programmer extraordinaire, fellow ham, and former neighbor (I scared him away)
  • Kyle, fellow geek, awesome guy, talented writer, and college roommate
  • Mr. T, former high school teacher, programmer extraordinaire, and FIRST mentor
  • Andy, high school accomplice, ridiculously good programmer and system administrator, and an infrequent blogger
• SnackManiac, internationally-acclaimed snack blogger
• Garrett Graff, a real political blogger, bookwriter, and lecturer

News & Media

• Google News, an awesome aggregator of several thousand online news sources
• BBC News, which isn’t as insane as the US media can be at times (and it can be good to see a non-US view of the US sometimes… or to pay attention to news in other countries)
• The Bentley Vanguard, Bentley College’s student newspaper; I wrote the most-read weekly column and sometimes assisted with copyediting and production duties. (Okay, so the column was most-read because I took over writing the most-read column, not because of any particular merits of my own. But still, it’s a true statement.)

Sites I Practically Live At

• My Flickr photostream
• My favorites on Flickr (other peoples’ photos)
• English Wikipedia, where I serve as an editor an RC Patroller
• Ask MetaFilter, the world’s most awesome question-and-answer site
• MetaFilter, a cool many-person blog
  • A list of in-jokes on Metafilter
  • The world’s best MetaFilter post
• OpenDesigns, with over 1,000 awesome free templates
• WebHostingTalk, where people looking to host their site for $4/year and people running massive datacenters rub elbows, and where strange people sometimes post implausible requests

Geekery

• The Depenguinator, a script meant to automatically (or remotely) replace a Linux system with FreeBSD
• An interesting thread on the cost of a 10 Gigabit line to the Internet (in a datacenter, not to your home), with commentary from people at several companies that have such lavish bandwidth
• An unofficial Service Pack for Windows 98 for those still using it for one strange reason or another
• MythDora, a Fedora distribution that might just work
• A little bit (further down) on getting the .com zone file (enormous)
• A guide on using Google Charts
• How to keep your ThinkPad clean
• Ken Rockwell’s How to Afford Anything
• pfSense, a FreeBSD-based distribution with a spiffy web GUI, meant to be used as a nifty firewall/router
• This PC, which I think would be excellent for running it ($200, Via C7 CPU)
• PhotoRec, which is meant to recover deleted images off of digital camera media. I blogged about it here.

Geekery/NTP

• “Wayne’s Scripts“, a set of tools for generating statistics on clients using your NTP server
  • My installation thereof
• The NTP pool main site

Geekery/Xen

• OpenBSD made to run in DomU
• Another thread here
• Virtual machines can’t set the time ordinarily (hence why my Dom0 runs ntpd)
• More on OpenBSD and Xen

Geekery/Radio

• The Codeplug Supersite, for all your codeplug needs (Motorola radio geeks)
• FCC License Search page, something that’s always hard to find but very useful

Geekery/BlueQuartz

• BlueQuartz, the OpenSource remnants of Cobalt’s RaQ servers
• A great ISO installer of BlueQuartz + CentOS (courtesy of NuOnce Networks)
• My VMWare Player image of BlueQuartz
• A guide on how to install SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and MailScanner on BlueQuartz (and a way to keep the rules up-to-date)
• (and another on MRTG)

Mac Apps

I don’t have a Mac (yet), but if I did, here are some programs that would almost certainly be on it:

• iStat Menus, a spiffy system monitor app for OS X [direct]
• Versions, a GUI for Subversion
• AppCleaner, to keep things shiny and new
• Panic’s Coda, a totally awesome web development tool. [Have some tips]
• Unison for Usenet
• XCode, a seemingly-impressive IDE (it’s free with OS X, but not installed by default)
• Secrets, since I love fiddling with things
• Adium, which is roughly “gaim” for OS X, minus the suck
• Camino, mayhaps: a Safari clone with Firefox guts, kind of
• Disctop, even if it’s mostly eyecandy
• cocoaModem, a software-driven ham radio ‘modem’
• VMware Fusion 4, mayhaps (warning: audio on that video is really annoying)
• Mac Fusion, for a simple GUI to mount remote filesystems
• Weather Vane, putting the weather in my taskbar
• Pixer, since batch-resizing is something frequently necessary but with no obvious good choices
• iCompta, though I dislike taking risks with financial apps
• Fliqlo, a clock screensaver with a retro flip-clock appearance
• Earthdesk, a much spiffier XEarth
• Silica, a little shareware app to monitor Caller ID on an attached phone line (note: modem not included!)… If you’re too lazy to set up a TrixBox system
• NetNewsWire, a spiffy-looking Usenet client
• BitRocket for .torrents
• QuickSilver launcher
• SLife is interesting, albeit a bit creepy
• Yep, a PDF organizer, for going paperless, or at least, “lesspaper”