{"id":800,"date":"2008-06-03T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?page_id=800"},"modified":"2008-06-03T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T00:02:50","slug":"bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page is a random collection of cool, useful, or otherwise worthwhile links. It&#8217;s somewhat akin to bookmarks \/ favorites in a browser, except public.<\/p>\n<h2>Friends &#038; Accomplices<\/h2>\n<ul>\n    <li>My fellow bloggers:\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/\">Andrew<\/a>, photographer and programmer extraordinaire, fellow ham, and former neighbor (I scared him away)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/trokair\/\">Kyle<\/a>, fellow geek, awesome guy, talented writer, and college roommate<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/\">Mr. T<\/a>, former high school teacher, programmer extraordinaire, and FIRST mentor<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/goodtim\/\">Andy<\/a>, high school accomplice, ridiculously good programmer and system administrator, and an infrequent blogger \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/snackmaniac.blogspot.com\/\">SnackManiac<\/a>, internationally-acclaimed snack blogger<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/garrettgraff.com\/blog\/\">Garrett Graff<\/a>, a <em>real<\/em> political blogger, bookwriter, and lecturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News &#038; Media<\/h2>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/\">Google News<\/a>, an awesome aggregator of several thousand online news sources<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC News<\/a>, which isn&#8217;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&#8230; or to pay attention to news in other countries)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bentleyvanguard.com\/\">The Bentley Vanguard<\/a>, Bentley College&#8217;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&#8217;s a true statement.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sites I Practically Live At<\/h2>\n<ul>\n    <li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/n1zyy\">Flickr photostream<\/a><\/li>\n    <li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/n1zyy\/favorites\/\">favorites on Flickr<\/a> (other peoples&#8217; photos)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">English Wikipedia<\/a>, where I serve as an editor an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol\">RC Patroller<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/\">Ask MetaFilter<\/a>, the world&#8217;s most awesome question-and-answer site<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">MetaFilter<\/a>, a cool many-person blog\n<ul>\n    <li>A list of <a href=\"http:\/\/mssv.net\/wiki\/index.php\/In_Jokes\">in-jokes on Metafilter<\/a><\/li>\n    <li>The world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/metatalk.metafilter.com\/1403\/\">best MetaFilter post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/opendesigns.org\">OpenDesigns<\/a>, with over 1,000 awesome free templates<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/\">WebHostingTalk<\/a>, where people looking to host their site for $4\/year and people running massive datacenters rub elbows, and where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=371163\">strange people<\/a> sometimes post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=672065\">implausible requests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Geekery<\/h2>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daemonology.net\/blog\/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html\">The Depenguinator<\/a>, a script meant to automatically (or remotely) replace a Linux system with FreeBSD<\/li>\n    <li>An interesting thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=669768\">the cost of a 10 Gigabit<\/a> line to the Internet (in a datacenter, not to your home), with commentary from people at several companies that have such lavish bandwidth<\/li>\n    <li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/exuberant.ms11.net\/98sesp.html\">unofficial Service Pack<\/a> for Windows 98 for those still using it for one strange reason or another<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/guillaume.filion.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/mythdora_mythtv.php\">MythDora<\/a>, a Fedora distribution that might just work<\/li>\n    <li>A little bit (further down) on <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.google.com\/answers\/threadview?id=32502\">getting the .com zone file<\/a> (enormous)<\/li>\n    <li>A guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/chart\/\">using Google Charts<\/a><\/li>\n    <li>How to <a href=\"http:\/\/lenovoblogs.com\/designmatters\/?p=121\">keep your ThinkPad clean<\/a><\/li>\n    <li>Ken Rockwell&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenrockwell.com\/tech\/how-to-afford-anything.htm\">How to Afford Anything<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfsense.org\/\">pfSense<\/a>, a FreeBSD-based distribution with a spiffy web GUI, meant to be used as a nifty firewall\/router<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/catalog\/product.do?product_id=8304655\">This PC<\/a>, which I think would be excellent for running it ($200, Via C7 CPU)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsecurity.org\/wiki\/PhotoRec\">PhotoRec<\/a>, which is meant to recover deleted images off of digital camera media. I blogged about it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/25\/digital-photo-recovery\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Geekery\/NTP<\/h3>\n<ul>\n    <li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schlitt.net\/scripts\/ntp\/\">Wayne&#8217;s Scripts<\/a>&#8220;, a set of tools for generating statistics on clients using your NTP server\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ttwagner.com\/newmain\/ntp-stats.php\">My installation thereof<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pool.ntp.org\/\">The NTP pool<\/a> main site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Geekery\/Xen<\/h3>\n<ul>\n    <li>OpenBSD made to run in DomU<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabble.com\/OpenBSD-as-Xen--domU-td15323353.html\">Another thread here<\/a><\/li>\n    <li>Virtual machines <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.rimuhosting.com\/forums\/archive\/index.php\/t-188.html\">can&#8217;t set the time<\/a> ordinarily (hence why my Dom0 runs ntpd)<\/li>\n    <li>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/kerneltrap.org\/mailarchive\/openbsd-misc\/2007\/2\/26\/145078\">OpenBSD and Xen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Geekery\/Radio<\/h3>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplugsupersite.com\/\">The Codeplug Supersite<\/a>, for all your codeplug needs (Motorola radio geeks)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/fjallfoss.fcc.gov\/General_Menu_Reports\/engineering_search.cfm?accessible=NO\">FCC License Search<\/a> page, something that&#8217;s always hard to find but very useful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Geekery\/BlueQuartz<\/h3>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/bluequartz.org\/\">BlueQuartz<\/a>, the OpenSource remnants of Cobalt&#8217;s RaQ servers<\/li>\n    <li>A great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuonce.net\/bluequartz.php\">ISO installer of BlueQuartz + CentOS<\/a> (courtesy of NuOnce Networks)<\/li>\n    <li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/bluequartz-for-vmware-player\/\">VMWare Player image<\/a> of BlueQuartz<\/li>\n    <li>A guide on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.erweb.it\/pub\/installing_spamassassin.php\">install SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and MailScanner on BlueQuartz<\/a> (and a way to <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.erweb.it\/pub\/sare_rules_rulesdujour.php\">keep the rules up-to-date<\/a>)<\/li>\n    <li>(and <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.erweb.it\/pub\/installing_mrtg.php\">another on MRTG<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mac Apps<\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a Mac (yet), but if I did, here are some programs that would almost certainly be on it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/395316\/istat-menus-monitors-your-entire-system-from-your-menubar\">iStat Menus<\/a>, a spiffy system monitor app for OS X [<a href=\"http:\/\/islayer.com\/index.php?op=item&#038;id=28\">direct<\/a>]<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/395016\/versions-makes-subversion-easy-and-attractive\">Versions<\/a>, a GUI for Subversion<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/373120\/completely-uninstall-programs-with-appcleaner\">AppCleaner<\/a>, to keep things shiny and new<\/li>\n    <li>Panic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/coda\/\">Coda<\/a>, a totally awesome web development tool. [Have some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstartblogger.com\/30-panic-coda-tips-and-tricks\">tips<\/a>]<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/unison\/\">Unison<\/a> for Usenet<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/tools\/xcode\/\">XCode<\/a>, a seemingly-impressive IDE (it&#8217;s free with OS X, but not installed by default)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/368103\/tweak-leopards-hidden-features-with-secrets\">Secrets<\/a>, since I love fiddling with things<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adiumx.com\/\">Adium<\/a>, which is roughly &#8220;gaim&#8221; for OS X, minus the suck<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/caminobrowser.org\/\">Camino<\/a>, mayhaps: a Safari clone with Firefox guts, kind of<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/344575\/add-inserted-cds-and-dvds-to-your-desktop-with-disctop\">Disctop<\/a>, even if it&#8217;s mostly eyecandy<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/chen\/w7ay\/cocoaModem\/index.html\">cocoaModem<\/a>, a software-driven ham radio &#8216;modem&#8217;<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/launch\/vmware-fusion-beta-4-now-available-267524.php\">VMware Fusion 4<\/a>, mayhaps (warning: audio on that video is really annoying)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/featured-mac-download\/mount-remote-file-systems-with-macfusion-262764.php\">Mac Fusion<\/a>, for a simple GUI to mount remote filesystems<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolosxapps.net\/2008\/06\/09\/weather-vane-display-weather-in-your-menu-bar\/\">Weather Vane<\/a>, putting the weather in my taskbar<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolosxapps.net\/2008\/06\/09\/pixer-batch-resize-your-images\/\">Pixer<\/a>, since batch-resizing is something frequently necessary but with no obvious good choices<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolosxapps.net\/2008\/06\/03\/icompta-free-finance-manager-for-os-x\/\">iCompta<\/a>, though I dislike taking risks with financial apps<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/info.php\/id\/24859\">Fliqlo<\/a>, a clock screensaver with a retro flip-clock appearance<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xericdesign.com\/earthdesk.php\">Earthdesk<\/a>, a much spiffier <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=xearth&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;um=1&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\">XEarth<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/gweston\/silica\/\">Silica<\/a>, a little shareware app to monitor Caller ID on an attached phone line (note: modem not included!)&#8230; If you&#8217;re too lazy to set up a TrixBox system \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/Individuals\/NetNewsWire\/Default.aspx\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, a spiffy-looking Usenet client<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitrocket.org\/\">BitRocket<\/a> for .torrents<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.blacktree.com\/quicksilver\/what_is_quicksilver\">QuickSilver<\/a> launcher<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slifelabs.com\/slife\/features\">SLife<\/a> is interesting, albeit a bit creepy<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yepthat.com\/yep\/index.html\">Yep<\/a>, a PDF organizer, for going paperless, or at least, &#8220;lesspaper&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is a random collection of cool, useful, or otherwise worthwhile links. It&#8217;s somewhat akin to bookmarks \/ favorites in a browser, except public. Friends &#038; Accomplices My fellow bloggers: Andrew, photographer and programmer extraordinaire, fellow ham, and former &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/bookmarks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-800","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}