Rubenerd Bookmarks 2006
These bookmarks were exported from del.icio.us.
2006-07
- Your Anime Resource. Animelab.com: "Welcome to Animelab.com, your premier online anime resource. Now with over 3628 links for over 1071 anime shows! Online reviews, image galleries, midi files and much more!"
- Blogthings - Welcome to Blogthings!: "A Blogthing is a quiz, meme, or toy you can put in your blog or journal." Be careful though, it's addictive.
- 27B Stroke 6: The internet is a series of tubes... priceless! :D
- Digital Clock T-Shirt - Unique Gifts Australia | Unique Presents, Birthday Gifts, Funky Products, Gadgets, Mens Gifts, Big Boys Toys: I really want this shirt!
- Using Smilies « WordPress Codex: Useful guide to smilies code for Wordpress
- #digitaldistractions: Apt name! Iron Chef, Alton Brown's Good Eats, Britcoms :D
- Channel Nine Adelaide (Australia) Viewing Schedule: Just the program guide without any of the useless, poorly designed, confusing crap on the NineMSN site.
- RPG LAND: Great site for lighthearted anime reviews. These people can write!
- Yahoo! Search: Quick link to Yahoo Singapore (clutter free search-only version)
- Yahoo!7 Search: Quick link to YahooSeven Australia (clutter free search-only version)
- Rubenerd Show Forum 2.0: The official forum for the Rubenerd Show
- Enough already with the megapixels: Could this be the makings of the mexapixel-myth?
- Girls For Dummies: I'd buy that :). Scratch that thought, I NEED that!
- Vanilla Add-ons - Search: Add-ons for the Vanilla forum software
- The J-Walk Blog: Whisky Barrel Guitars: Now I would NOT have thought of that!
- Portland Vacation: Skate Route on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Looks like a skater hit the sign :D
- Falling Skater on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Another funny skating sign!
- Senate approves embryo stem cell bill - Yahoo! News: Mary Tyler Moore is awesome :)
- 301 Redirect - 301 Permanent Redirect by Brian V. Bonini: Beautifully designed site, nice colours. Oh, and its got information on 301 redirects too, useful for redirecting users automatically to different parts of your site. UNIX and Unix-like only, Windows Server can go to hell ;)
- Rock Lyrics: Anvil: Backwaxed lyrics: Perhaps the most charming lyrics for an album of songs.
- MASON GRAY STRANGE - ADELAIDE'S LEADING AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS: Great auction house for spare computer parts in Adelaide, South Australia. Some good stuff.
- DOSBox for Mac OS X *Universal*: Universal binary version of DOSBox (0.65). Not available from official DOSBox site.
- ClamXav: "...viruses actively attacking OS X users is...NONE! However, this doesn't mean we should get complacent."
- Audio Cables and Connectors: "This tutorial explains the different types of audio cable and connectors. We will also look at how to solder the various connectors to the cable, such as XLR to XLR, XLR to RCA and XLR to 1/4" jacks."
- PHP: localtime - Manual: PHP localtime explained
- Plugins « WordPress Codex: Wordpress plugin repository
- Current local time in Adelaide - South Australia - Australia: Really detailed, for any city
- iconophobia Rippod: Darwin *NIX command line app for ripping music of iPods
- iconophobia inlineRSS for Wordpress: Plugin for wordpress that lets you grab RSS feeds for your Wordpress site.
- Cariso Cariso Cariso: Fascinating look into the life of Carrie Soon, an engineer in Penang Malaysia
- Singapore by night: Beautiful photos of...
- 'night city lighting' - eXpansys UK Limited: Singapore at night
- Binary Bonsai Plugins: Supported Wordpress K2 plugins
- Gimp.app: A self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X.
- K2: The Wordpress K2 theme
- Daily Gmail Wordpress Backup: Novel way of backing up your Wordpress data automatically.
- SuperiorPics: The Veronicas: Press photos of the cute Australian singing duo. What rhymes with... "out of my league"?
- Hygiene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Did you know "The term Hygiene originates as a reference to Hygieia, who was a daughter of Asclepius and the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation."
- Colours and backgrounds: W3C guidelines, CSS HTML
- [css-d Display:none, visibility: hidden and Accesskeys]: Yet another strange IE/css rendering "feature"?
- Westciv Complete CSS Guide: "Web standards software and learning"
- Newshutch: Interesting AJAX powered blog reader
- Andrew Hill » Stock Quote Sidebar: For Wordpress
- mutube » IM Online: Let's other Wordpress users if you're online on all sorts of stuff
- Yahoo! Answers - New web page SUCKS: Hey, so I'm not the only one who thinks this afterall!
- Babel : Bandes-annonces: Trailers for the upcoming movie: Babel
- Main Page - Mactel-Linux: Mactel-Linux is the effort to adapt the GNU/Linux operating system to Intel-based Apple Macintosh hardware.
- Linux DV: Digital Video for Linux
- Mactel: Linux on the MacBook Pro: Nice, easy to follow instructions
- A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems: Introduction: A fascinating look into the history of Apple's OSs past and present.
- VH1.com : Paul Shaffer : Artist Main: How awesome is Paul Shaffer? :D
- Adium Gizmo VoIP Plug-In: "The Gizmo Project Plug-In for Adium allows Adium users to also access their contact list on Gizmo Project. The plug-in allows you to do everything within the Adium application that you can do with Gizmo Project."
- FireWire - USB 2.0 Comparison: Even though FireWire has "slower" transfer rate, it works out faster.
- Upside-Down-Ternet: This is too good: "My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun."
- Jordy Blog: Jordan Gunderson’s take on Tech and Business
- W3C QA - Recommended list of DTDs you can use in your Web document: A must have bookmark for web developers.
- CSS Tutorial - Font: Another great Tizac page
2006-08
- Learn Mandarin Chinese with ChinesePod: A language podcast. Why didn't I think of that?
- dvd || isoHunt - World's largest BitTorrent and P2P search engine: Good Linux DVD torrents.
- More John Howard Jokes - What's your IQ ?: They're funny because they're true!
- JOHN HOWARD JOKES - AUSTRALIAN P.M.: Not happy John!
- macosx.com - Mac Support: They have a surprisingly good Mac OS 9 support group
- Photos of Singapore: View from Queen Elizabeth Walk: Beautiful night shot of Singapore
- GAM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "GAM (ギャム?) (pronounced GYAMU) is a new project under the Hello! Project umbrella consisting of Aya Matsuura and Miki Fujimoto. This pairing was announced mid June 2006."
- Ayu's Anime Torrents: Includes REC :)
- MediaWiki Templates - Getting Started HOWTO: Invaluable guide to MediaWiki templates
- UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies: Asian Literature Seminar for Educators: The Story of Japanese Manga and South Asian Politics
- Beppe Grillo's Blog: Interesting political views from Italy
- AnimeInfo.org - Anime University: "Attached to anime are cultural, historical, and technical facts which are all a contributing factor in making anime what it is. Here at AnimeInfo.org we're dedicated to bringing you closer to a greater understanding of anime"
- Sailor Moon Uncensored: Misc - Geneon's Sailor Moon SS Covers: DVD covers for those who bittorrent. Not that you would do that of course... ahem.
2006-09
- TEXTAREA - Multi-line Text Input: How to use the textarea tag
- IconBAZAAR - Animated Flags: The best animated flags I've ever seen
- Davesphotogallery: Stunning photographs
- George W. Bush Heckled While Addressing Australian Parliament: Good on you Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle :)
- Top Grade Indian Artifacts From the Rod Michel Collection: Fascinating to look through, some real history here.
- Everybody Loves Eric Raymond - Bruce Schneier Facts: Bruce has been Chuck Norrised!
- Mac OS XWine Cellar Software for Collectors: "Our wine cellar software is a comprehensive wine inventory management system designed to record your wine purchases, cellaring and consumption."
- Aqua4iTunes 2.0b1 - MacUpdate: Restore Aqua to iTunes 7!
- anime.mikomi.org - Mai-HiME: Mai HiME review
- the show with zefrank: Why you shouldn't use YouTube to upload your stuff
- (MFI) Zero no Tsukaima (Generic discussion thread) - AnimeSuki Forum: Zero no Tsukaima
- Seinfeld Blog - Seinfeld DVD For Sale Now: The Seinfeld Blog!
- James Seng: Sharp Zaurus: Damn I want one of these!
2006-10
- Japan says no to Blu-ray, HD DVD recorders for U.S. | CNET News.com: MAKUHARI, Japan--Blu-ray manufacturers want to sell high-definition recorders in the United States. What about to Singapore, Malaysia or Australia? ;)
- The Linux Mirror Project - Browsing Torrents: Damn Small Linux ISO torrents
- CNN.com - New DVD could end format war - Sep 26, 2006: New Medium Enterprises (NME) said on Tuesday it had solved a technical production problem that makes it possible to produce a cheap multiple-layer DVD disk containing one film in different, competing formats.
- CNN.com - After 64 years, relatives may have answers in sub sinking - Oct 5, 2006: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The underwater sonar images of a black shape against a grainy, monochrome background are the biggest clues in more than 60 years to the fate of Bruce Abele's father and the submarine he commanded during World War II."
- The World In 2005 | The worlds best country: Ireland #1, Australia #6, Singapore #11, United States #13, Japan #17... Haiti #110!
- K-neko Bittorrent tracker: Great fansubs of Zero No Tsukaima (think Anime Harry Potter)
- FFRF Bible Quiz Answers: Why do people still put faith in this book?
- Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.: If you're in the United States, check them out. Take that CWN!
- PCGuide: Invalid partition table: "The system examined the master partition table to determine what volume to use to boot the operating system, and found invalid information within it."
- Welcome to TechGRRL !: Ever wanted to see what the inside of a trailer/campervan looks like? Looks pretty spiffy.
- GNU GRUB - GRUB Legacy FAQ: I don't think these guys like LILO.
- Lenovo Support & downloads - Monitor File for Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP - ThinkPad General: ThinkPad 600E
- Lenovo Support & downloads - Video driver (NM2200) for Windows NT 4.0 - ThinkPad 380Z, 570/E, 600E: ThinkPad 600E
- MSI -- MICRO-STAR INT'L CO.,LTD.: MSI KM4M-V Mainboard drivers
- AvBrand.com - Projects - Terrain Generator: The SimCity 3000 Terrain Generator is a utility created by a friend of mine and myself in 1998 to assist in generating terrains for SimCity 3000.
- TinkerTool: Description: TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
- vercruesse | de: ASM brings back the application switcher menu (and more) to Mac OS X.
- CocoThumbX - Mac OS X Thumbnail Creator: CocoThumbX is a freeware thumbnail creator for Mac OS X.
- xirdalium: Interesting research project blog
- (sometimes)photoblog: Amazing fauna photography
- Deigote's blog: Pasto de las llamas: I don't know what to say about this!
- Shanghai Aquarium 34 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: A seal, swimming underwater, at Shanghai Aquarium.
- WinDrivers Company Forums - m820e driver: The HP M820 is binarily (binarily?) compatible with a Panasonic drive
- YesAsia.com: Free Shipping on Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) DVDs, CDs, TV Drama, Karaoke, Anime, Manga, Games, Books, Posters, Gifts, Toys, and more!: japanese korean and chinese stuff!
- Bay County Division on Aging: And you thought DOA stood for Dead or Alive or Dead on Arrival ;)
- @.com: I'm just your typical tech news junkie, eh.
- searchmash: Google's test bed for new search features, I love it!
- Dvorak Uncensored » Singapore, one giant hotspot — FREE!: This is awesome!
- Using Apache and PHP on Mac OS X: How to get PHP working on Mac OS X
- Php Wallpapers: I'm more of a Perl person, but if you want to show off your PHP patriotism...
- Image:NewMexico1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Hasta la Vista!
- Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime: "Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format." Very nioce!
- Stoplight 1.1 Released - InsanelyMac Forum: Great little hack that makes the Maximise button in Mac OS X actually maximise your window to full screen!
- smcFanControl: smcFanControl 1.12 ...cool down your Macbook(Pro)! ...Adjust the mimium fan speed blocks_image Approach of the program: FanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans. So you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your macbook ru
- GROSX « Eli Dourado: "GROSX (Google Reader for mac OS X) is a small program that integrates Google Reader into OS X."
- WordPress phpMyAdmin Guide: If I were a religious guy, I would say "what a godsend!" :)
- Love Hina / Negima: All you need to know about Ken Akamatsu's stuff
- Artlibre.org: Free Art License: A Creative Commons alternative endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. Creative Commons works beautifully for me though as it is, so I think I'll stick with it for now. Larry Lessig is awesome.
- Mac OS X Icons - Windows XP Icons - Icon Design: Very nice Mac OS X and Windows XP icons. I recommend "Apple Seeds"... I turned my Mac OS X Tiger boot drive icon into a classic Apple ][ 5.25 inch floppy drive!
- HERA Papierverarbeitung - Verpackungen aus Papier: Tüten, Flachbeutel, Röntgentaschen, Pergamin: Very "80's view of what modern looks like" logo
- Logotypes : Brand Names : Logos : Trademarks | Free for Download: Great site about logos!
- THG Business: Technology news and review site.
- ThreeTen download from Download Utilities category: Download music from allofmp3.com directly into iTunes. Downloads multiple files, and imports them directly into iTunes.
- HP Pavilion (ze2000) ZE2005EA 104-Unsupported wireless network device FIX: For my dad's laptop
- Bioperl OSX installation: Bash profile
- m0n0wall: m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free
- Review: m0n0wall Firewall V1.0 - Part 1 | Tom's Networking: "Powerful and easy-to-configure FreeBSD firewall with Web GUI IPsec and PPTP endpoints and bandwidth shaping"
- iMac (Slot Loading): How to Manually Eject a CD-ROM Disc: "This article explains how to manually eject a CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) disc from a slot loading drive."
- MCE Internal DVD-R "SuperDrive" Upgrade for iMac: "MCE Internal DVD±R/RW + Double/Dual Layer SuperDrive for Slot-Loading iMac G3"
- External FireWire Optical Storage Drives at OtherWorldComputing.com: "OWC Mercury Pro 52x32x52x16x CD-RW/DVD-ROM External FireWire/USB 2.0/USB 1.1 Combo Solution. Features Teac Burn-Proof Technology. "
- iMac (Slot Loading): Troubleshooting CD/DVD Eject Failures: "This article explains how to eject a disc that is stuck in the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive."
- Apple - Support - Discussions - imac G3 won't install Os or boot from ...: "I want to install Tiger but when the computer restarts it spits the disc out I have also tried to boot 10.3 from the CD and it does the same. It only spits discs out on restart!"
- Extending WLAN Range with Repeaters: "Wireless repeaters, though, are an alternative way to extend the range of an existing WLAN instead of adding more access points."
- Outhink SpinXpress: "This version of SpinXpress™ runs on Mac OSx™ systems AND NOW Macs with Intel Core processors"
- Mixing & Matching 133 MHz RAM with 100 MHz RAM [Archive - SlickDeals.net Forums]: "would there be any problems with mixing a 133 MHz RAM module with the existing 100 MHz module, or should I try to stick to a 100 MHz module for the upgrade?"
- Train Simulator Add-ons for Microsoft Train Simulator: "Welcome to 3D Train Stuff, a leading international developer of high quality train simulator add-ons for Microsoft® Train Simulator."
- Thomas Andrews: Biography of the Titanic's designer.
- Railsim.nl :: The best a traindriver can get......: Very good quality Dutch locomotive downloads for Train Simulator
- Postini: 80 Pct of Email is Spam: Why don't I find this surprising?
- Parallels Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X : Page 1: Very good review of Parallels Desktop with detailed benchmarks and quirk information (such as 400GHz being reported from Ubuntu!)
- Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation: Updated to work with Firefox 2.0.
- Mahora-Academy: Torrents for "Negima!?", the re-release of Negima with (amongst other things) less ecchi and fanservice.
- Learning Ruby - Main Page: VERY good guide to Ruby! "My interest in Ruby was aroused after I read an article Ruby the Rival in November 2005. I decided to learn Ruby myself and started making my own Ruby study notes. What's presented here is a result of that."
- Mycroft Project: Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins: For Firefox, Firefox 2, Mozilla Suite, Sunbird, and (shudder) Internet Explorer 7
- My Browser's Logos: Large logos for Firefox, Camino, Konqueror, Opera and Mozilla. No IE, ha!
- GaMerZ.HomePage.Version.2.0; It Is Not Just About Design;: Adds an integrated poll system to your WordPress.
- Some WordPress 2.0.5 users reporting Server 500 error « Mark on WordPress: If you are part of the small minority of WP users seeing 500 error messages (or anything about 302) after upgrading to WordPress 2.0.5, listen up.
- Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex: From 2.0.4 to 2.0.5
2006-11
- Inkscape. Draw Freely.: Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
- YourSQL: "YourSQL is a simple but powerful program to create and manipulate MySQL databases."
- HP LaserJet 4 Plus/m Plus Printer series - Download drivers and software - HP Business Support Center: Wow, thank you HP for creating the only driver to date to crash my MacBook Pro! I can't even launch the Printer Setup Utility without it crashing! Don't believe it when you see "Universal Binary" and think it's the answer to your HP Printer woes.
- Carrefour Malaysia Store Locator: "Carrefour has 10 stores nationwide to serve you better. Just click on the store nearest to your location to find out exactly where we are!"
- RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema: "I believe RELAX NG is preferable in many situations to XML Schema and should receive at least equal billing."
- microformats: "Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards."
- Anchor (A) element in HTML: "An anchor is a piece of text or some other object (for example an image) which marks the beginning and/or the end of a hypertext link."
- iStat nano - Dashboard - Status: View detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime and the top four processes.
- OpenMovieEditor: Welcome to the Open Movie Editor!: Open Movie Editor is designed to be a simple tool, that provides basic movie making capabilities.
- USB 2.0 vs. FireWire: Although the USB 2.0 is speedier than the FireWire, the latter beats it when used in high-speed storage devices.
- Command-line Backup Solutions on Mac OS X: Backing up your hard drive is like going to the dentist: important, but unpleasant enough that it is easy to put off or forget. Because of that, the best way to keep your data safe is to schedule regular backups.
- Fermilab Macintosh Setup for OS X: Fermilab Macintosh Setup for OS X
- Consumer Reports' Most Reliable | 7 | CNNMoney: Best and worst predicted reliability, according to Consumer Reports survey research.
- DeepBurner: "DeepBurner is a free, advanced and extremely powerful CD and DVD burning package." Great for people like me who still keep their PC on Windows 2000.
- GO: A Simple WindowsShell Replacement Solution: To replace the fugly standard Windows theme. I'll be using this on Vista... if I were to ever get Vista.
- Comodo Personal Firewall: Much better than Windows XP's crappy firewall. Or for Windows 2000 users like me :).
- Microsoft Windows XP - Net send: Great way to irritate family members who are still using Windows :D
- Realtec AC'97 Audio Codecs: The even still have drivers for OS/2 Warp! That does it, I'm installing OS/2 Warp on my other desktop machine right now! I can even have sound now! Can even run some of my retro Windows 3.x software on it :).
- PuTTY Download Page: Open source SSH client with remote file copying support. Great for accessing your Mac OS X machines from [crappy] Windows machines.
- The Sims 2 frustrations: Why you shouldn't bother playing The Sims with an on-board 4.0MB graphics system!
- Discount-Licenceing Home Page: Good to know you can still buy older versions of Microsoft Office. I still think Office 97 was the last decent version, before I moved to NeoOffice on Mac.
- Troubleshooting: My computer displays no video: "If your computer won't display video, here's how to troubleshoot it."
- MALAYSIA CENTRAL: Phone Directory: "Url + address + telephone + fax numbers + e-mail + other info for most federal ministries, goverments departments, embassies, banks, insurance, utility, transportation, rail, airlines, radio taxi companies, food delivery, radio/tv stations, newspapers &
- Application For Permanent Residence - Permanent Resident Services - Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) - Singapore: "Non-Singaporeans can become Singapore Permanent Residents (SPRs) by obtaining an Entry Permit. An application for an Entry Permit is an application for Singapore Permanent Residence."
- Dual Citizenship FAQ: "This document attempts to describe the current situation in United States law regarding dual citizenship. Although I am not a lawyer, I have checked this question out quite thoroughly in recent years and am fairly confident that this material is accurate
- Expatica - Living in, moving to, or working in HR, plus News in English: "In the face of increasing global competition, Singapore continues to build on its core advantages - a good geographical location, developed infrastructure, a good communications system, political stability and a disciplined workforce. Whether you are sen
- KLSkyscrapers.com: "All you want to know about the Kuala Lumpur skyline"
- Vista gold but cracked already - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au: Is anyone really surprised? :)
- Two Atheists Take on the Question of Free Will on the Naked Truth: "A question has been introduced into the public arena by science's discoveries and pronouncements regarding memetics and genetics, and the effects of evolution upon exactly what is the nature of human consciousness. "Do we really choose?" "
- Electronic Discount Sales - Pentium MMX: Retro processors for sale for less than USD10.00!
- Solutions/explanations for common PC problems: Great FAQ for fixing common older computer problems.
- IBT5620 Pentium MMX ISA Bus SBC: "with PC/104, CRT, LCD Panel, Audio and LAN"
- My PC won't start - Read this first!: "There is a standard troubleshooting procedure for that scenario which everyone should follow, and I'll describe it to you in a moment. But first let me address a few common issues for people whose older PC won't start any more:"
- Mondophoto.net : World Photo Gallery - World Photos: First hand pictures of Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo...
- Blog.DanYork.com - Fun with Audacity and LAME for different MP3 sampling rates (i.e. how NOT to sound like a chipmunk!): "Well, it turns out that Audacity lets the LAME encoder control the sampling rate! You can set the bit rate in Audacity, but Audacity lets LAME adjust the sampling rate."
- SmartWebby: Creating an Animated GIF using Macromedia Fireworks: "It is very easy to create animated GIF files in Macromedia Fireworks. Follow these 5 simple steps and your Animated GIF will be ready in a jiffy!"
- NAUTIJON: Gundam SEED Destiny: Character profiles. Don't worry, the descriptions are in English lah.
- Beyond validation - Quality Web Tips: "Validating one's Web pages is growing to become the usual quality check. But a Valid page without quality content is a nice, clean shell, but nonetheless empty."`
- interdimension media widgets: "The harvest season is here, and now it finds its way to your desktop. By downloading ... you can bring a little bit of the fall outdoors to your Dashboard."
- Security and NetBSD: All security advisories by NetBSD
- Apple: Open Source: "With built-in support for the X Window System, IPv6, Kerberos integration, and added POSIX, Linux, and System V API support, Mac OS X easily runs your favorite UNIX software."
- Apple - Pro/Video - “Scrubs” Production Team: "In the NBC comedy series “Scrubs,” a wacky trio of young doctors try to cope with chaos while working together as hospital residents. Behind the scenes, life is no less hectic for the show’s creators, who produce 22 jam-packed episodes a season."
- netbsd-help: Linux vs NetBSD su: Only users in group 0 (normally wheel) can su to root
- How to make custom prompts: "In my last article I discussed how to change your shell. Now let's change your prompt to make it helpful."
- polishlinux.org » NetBSD vs OpenBSD: They like NetBSD better too :).
- BSD Guides :: Doing Stuff With FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, & Mac OS X: Very newbie-proof guide to customising your bash-shell$
- Main Page - NetBSD Wiki: "The NetBSD Wiki is a collaborative writing project to build useful resources for NetBSD users. "
- FreeBSD Information and Tips: "This page is here as a catch-all for bits of information, tips and tricks for FreeBSD that I've picked up along the way that aren't large enough to warrant individual pages"
- FreeBSD > How to enable colorized ls output? | nixCraft: FreeBSD has ls command to list directory contents. You can pass -G option to ls command to enable colorized output.
- FreeBSD keep ports collection up to date in two easy steps | nixCraft: "The FreeBSD ports collection offers a simple way for users and administrators to install applications. The ports made FreeBSD quite popular. Keeping ports up to date is an essential task."
- MySQL AB :: MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual :: 2.13.4.1 FreeBSD Notes: It is recommended you use MIT-pthreads on FreeBSD 2.x, and native threads on FreeBSD 3 and up. It is possible to run with native threads on some late 2.2.x versions, but you may encounter problems shutting down mysqld.
- Creating custom SSH welcome messages [Archive - WebHostingTalk Forums]: "This is good if you enable ssh login to your users, you can place some text once they login."
- High Resolution Console - FreeBSDwiki: Sweet! "If you want to have a 1024x768(or even higher) console resolution, it's fairly easy to set up, just requires a kernel recompile and setting the mode you want to use in the /etc/rc.conf file"
- OfB.biz: Open for Business - Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops: "Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops"
- 7 - Keyboard and Display Controls: "amd64, i386, and VGA Alpha users normally get a console screen of 25 lines of 80 characters. However, many VGA video cards are capable of displaying a higher text resolution of 50 lines of 80 characters."
- ONLamp.com -- FreeBSD Networking Basics: "this article will demonstrate how to verify, configure, and optimize your network settings."
- Linux and UNIX touch command help: "Information about the Linux / UNIX settime, touch command."
- Flickr Photo Download: Esplanade: Very bizzare photo in Singapore
- OSResources - How to install a server with lighttpd, PHP 5 and MySQL 5 on FreeBSD?: "Let's see how to install a complete developer environment on a FreeBSD or PC-BSD system. "
2006-12
- Daisaku Ikeda Quotes : Words of Wisdom | Buddhist Quotes: Very insightful :)
- Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Quicker custom icons: "Here’s a simple timesaver for your Thursday. OK, so it’ll save you all of a few seconds each time you use it, but still, it’s time saved. Over a year, who knows, you might accumulate an additional five minutes of free time, and we all know how valu
- macosxhints.com - 10.4: Create a custom disk icon for Boot Camp disks: "I wanted an easy way to identify the Windows disk while booted in OS X, so I thought I'd stick a custom icon on it"
- Icon Machine: "Icon Machine is a native icon editor for Mac OS X icons, capable of editing in all color sizes and depths. You can draw the icons yourself using the built-in array of standard tools, or import images from an application such as Adobe Photoshop."
- Mscape Software - Products - Iconographer: "Iconographer is a fully-featured icon editor. "
- Rubenerd Show 190 (Mon 04/Dec/2006): Christmas beverage review (Starbucks Toffee Nut Latte in Putrajaya) Christmas-themed Apple Dashboard widget reviews (Christmas Countdown, Festive Lights) dashboard lights bringing Christmas spirit… aww!
- Обои : Галерея : Animeshka - Аниме и Манга: I'll have to put this through Babel Fish or Google Translate I think! Do they do Ukrainian? ;)
- animeGlitch: "Most bizarre animated series"
- Japanese Computer Emulation Centre : PC98 emulators: "Excellent, including HD & CD ROM support and an impressive set of configuration tools. Not as good as NPII or T98Next"
- FreeBSD Post Installation: "This document contains the steps for installing useful tools after the core install. This document contains the small differences between FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 6.0."
- How to Customize the Shell Prompt - Making life in the Linux console a little bit more enjoyable. - Softpedia: "Making life in the Linux console a little bit more enjoyable." Also works wonders on FreeBSD, as long as you have BASH from the ports collection
- The Heirloom Bourne Shell: "The Heirloom Bourne Shell is a portable variant of the traditional Unix shell. It has been derived from OpenSolaris code and thus implements the SVR4/SVID3 level of the shell."
- FreeBSD: Why command df and du reports different output? | nixCraft: "ou will never notice something like this on FreeBSD or Linux Desktop home system or your personal UNIX or Linux workstation. However, sometime on a production UNIX server you will notice that both df (display free disk space) and du (display disk usage s
- DragonFly users List (threaded) for 2006-06: "If someone happens to be trying to run DragonFly 1.4.4, under Parallels, on Mac OS X, on a 15" MacBook Pro - here's a working xorg config."
- wiki:dokuwiki [DokuWiki]: "DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. "
- Installing Ubuntu on my MBP via Parallels - ryos's blog: "As many of you Mac enthusiasts know, with the entire Mac line transitioning to Intel, the latest hip stuff on the block is to run Windoze and Linux OS on your Mac. There are two different ways to doing this:"
- Official FreeBSD Logos, Wallpapers, Postcards, DVD Covers...: VERY nice FreeBSD wallpapers! I can't use the "colors of freedom" one though, because they don't spell "color" right ;). Think they'd notice if I hacked their system and added a "u" to "color"? No wait... I can't... it's BSD!
- Dillo Web Browser :: Home Page: Very nice, very lightweight browser. Doesn't support CSS or JavaScript, but perfect for viewing FreeBSD ports and reading Slashdot ;).
- BSD Sand Wallpapers: "i just arrived from my holidays, i was bored one day on the beach, so did three wallpapers, maybe you will find them nice on desktop"
- URI::file - URI that maps to local file names - search.cpan.org: The URI::file class supports URI objects belonging to the file URI scheme. This scheme allows us to map the conventional file names found on various computer systems to the URI name space. An old specification of the file URI scheme is found in RFC 1738.
- 10 myths -- and 10 truths -- about atheism - Los Angeles Times: "Given that we know that atheists are often among the most intelligent and scientifically literate people in any society, it seems important to deflate the myths that prevent them from playing a larger role in our national discourse."
- Malaysia Outage - Undersea Cable Breakage - TM Net - Newsroom - Latest News: Damn it, this is serious! This cable disruption has slowed the entire internet down here, it took me three minutes to just load this into del.icio.us! ARGH!!!!