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
- 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”
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