Granted, this is a Rogers unboxing (I’m on AT&T), but it still confirms that the new BlackBerry Bold is a beautiful device. It also confirms that I’m getting a Bold and not an iPhone 3G. Sorry, Uncle Steve.
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I’ve been using OpenDNS at home and at work since the service was first offered. At home, I was just using OpenDNS for DNS lookups, that’s all. At work, I setup our M$ Domain Controllers to forward DNS requests to OpenDNS, again for DNS lookups only.
In May 2007, OpenDNS announced their filtering controls, I immediately went to their site, created an account, and setup my external IP networks (currently five of them at work, soon to be six). Granted at the time, it was implicit domain blocking only, but it was something. Prior to May ‘07, I was using a Linux server and BIND with a huge list of domains that I blocked by pointing to 127.0.0.1. It was a dirty solution, but it worked. Most of the domains I had in BIND were Adware sites I pulled from the hosts file changes that Spybot S&D added to the Windows hosts file. The OpenDNS domain blocking was a solution to my dirty fix. While I like having Linux on my network, the OpenDNS domain blocking sort of did away with my daily workarounds trying to block/unblock domains.
In June/August 2007, OpenDNS added category blocking with domain whitelisting. Oh, sweet day! I was able to block entire categories of internet content, for free! Again, for free!
Now back to the point of this post… Some people would like this kind of filtering for their children to keep them from viewing pornographic content or to avoid internet predators. I had never really thought about using OpenDNS as a parental filter before because I do not have children. NetNanny and other parental filtering software charges per computer. Now that homes have more than one computer, that could get expensive; paying for filtering year after year. If you have more than one computer in your home, you would need to setup the OpenDNS servers on your cable/DSL router (Apple AirPort, Linksys, D-Link, etc.), but you only need to setup the OpenDNS client software on one computer (preferably one the parents use).
Check out the Howtogeek article about how to set up parental filtering for free using OpenDNS.
Howtogeek via Lifehacker
Even if you don’t have children, you could still take advantage of OpenDNS’s Phishing and Adware blocking. It’s the setup I’m using at home.
I just thought this was a bit ironic that MacDailyNews reports about “Netflix suffers biggest outage ever” and there is a big honkin’ ad in the center of the article for Apple TV and iTunes Store rentals.
It seems like an obvious move: Apple’s little pink 8GB iPod nano ($199) comes out in time for Valentine’s Day, and perhaps before most pink second-gen nanos have kicked the bucket. But there’s a problem: if you’re trying to impress your lady friend by buying her a nano that contributes money to some worthy cause, you’re going to have to stick with the (PRODUCT) RED one, which fights against AIDS and tuberculosis in Africa and around the world. As pink as this nano is, there’s no mention of an accompanying breast-cancer charity benefit, in an industry where pink gadgets usually mean precisely that. Let’s get it going, Apple! [Apple]
Continue reading ‘A Pink iPod nano in time for your Valentine’
Just another justification that DRM does not and will not work! EVER! I hope Sony learns a lesson from this. Hopefully, they will lose millions of dollars in revenue. Its not a good thing to screw your customers or their computers.
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This is a little old, but interesting still since the old FBSD site was looking a little dated.
A new website has been launched. We hope you find the new design easier to navigate. The site was implemented by Emily Boyd as part of Google’s Summer of Code program. A copy of the old site for comparison purposes is archived here. Please post your comments and suggestions about the new site to the freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org list.
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Apple does it again, all in one week too!
First off, they release the new iPod nano, a new tiny version of the iPod. Available in a 2GB and 4GB model, the iPod nano can store up to 500 songs or 1000 songs respectively.
Now with Podcasting!
New stuff includes:
- Browse, subscribe to, and listen to podcasts
Podcasts are downloadable radio-style audio shows delivered by the iTunes Music Store or over the Internet. - Watch music videos
You can purchase and download some videos as part of an album or other offer from the iTunes Music Store. You can watch them in iTunes or in full screen mode.
More at http://www.apple.com/itunes/.
Download iTunes from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
Jimmy Wales announced today that Yahoo! has ordered 23 HP servers for the Wikimedia Foundation. The three database servers are model DL 385, and will come with dual Athlons, 8GB of RAM, and 6x 146GB 15K RPM drives each. They will also provide rackspace and bandwidth. The announcement comes four months after Google’s announcement of support, and two months after Yahoo’s own. Google has not yet made their intentions clear. You can read more about the specifications of what will soon be a 100+ server cluster at the Wikimedia Servers wiki article.
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I’m not going to evangelize Linux usage or OpenBSD usage. Both Open Source operating systems have their merits. They are neither both good at everything, but to call the entire community of Linux users losers is a bit harsh and unnesessary. Theo De Raadt tends to be a little over zealous at times. That’s why he was booted from the NetBSD project years ago.
“It’s terrible,” De Raadt says. “Everyone is using it, and they don’t realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, ‘This is garbage and we should fix it.’”
I use both OpenBSD and Linux. Why? Because both OSs have they things they do better than others. Last time I checked, OpenBSD did not have SMP support. I use a Linux-based SMTP relay at work for email filtering and it has two processors. OpenBSD wouldn’t have fit the bill in that situation. My SMTP relay is a Dell PowerEdge server. Dell supports Linux on their servers, yet another reason to stay with Linux on that server. I have in the past used OpenBSD for other projects such as firewalls, VPN gateways, or RADIUS authentication servers, but those are the kinds of projects that OpenBSD is best suited for in my opinion.
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