http://www.pubhackers.com Caffiene. Liquor. Mac Nerdery. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:58:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not long ago, crazy-nerd Amit Singh posted the fruits of his (and others) labour to get FUSE (File System In Userspace) working under OS X. The results are nice, and work more-or-less out of the box. What's neat about SSHFS is that I can now, for example, mount the hard drives ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2007/02/02/showing-macfuse-how-to-follow-symlinks-using-sshfs/ That's right, the Pub Hackers have uncovered the even newer phone product currently incubating in the dark, cold, idea-chambers of Apple, Inc's Cupertino campus: the iPhone Shuffle. One button. No GUI. A key press might just call someone, or maybe it will add a seemingly random entry to your calendar, or ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2007/01/10/iphone-shuffle/ If you've seen givemebackmygoogle.com, odds are you're wondering how to make sure those godawful affiliate sites stay out of your search results forever. I'm gonna show you how to do so using my browser of choice, OmniWeb. Google being a pretty clever platform, and OmniWeb being the most kick ass ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/10/16/how-to-add-givemebackmygoogle-filters-to-omniweb/ The default locations for various config files and data directories, by default, under Mac OS 10.4: Apache Web Server*: /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf MySQL*: /private/etc/my.cnf To be added to as time permits. * Editing these files requires you to be logged in as root, or use the sudo command. Yes, I know that 'short treatise' is somewhat of ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/10/15/a-short-trestise-on-the-locations-of-various-config-files-in-os-x/ Last.fm, why have you forsaken me? Today last.fm ("the social music revolution") unveiled a big redesign of the site (which isn't bad, just really light red), and also a new version of their music playing/rating/tagging system. So far, so good. Oh, and they also all but killed off the iTunes ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/07/15/lastfm-collectively-kicks-my-nuts/ Looking for some parts for my car, I came across this auction for a set of clear headlights. You'll notice, if you click on the link, as soon as the page loads there's a nice, loud, unrequested sound file that starts playing. It sounds like a retarded chipmonk reading a ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/05/18/treacherous-fucks-now-embed-sound-in-ebay-auctions/ Inspired by the "pirate, ninja, bear" thing, and with the recent announcement of Google Trends, Pubhacker Shawn and I have come up with a 21st century version of Roshambo: Google Trendshambo. It resolves any conflict instantly! For example, Shawn and I might be arguing about who thinks Rob Glaser is more ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/05/12/google-trends-roshambo/ After using Camino as my every day browser for many many months, I'm back on the OmniWeb train. I can't help it. I just missed it too much. OmniWeb is to Safari/Camino what BBEdit is to TextEdit. If you work on websites with flash content, like I sometimes do, and this ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/02/22/how-to-stop-flash-files-from-automatically-playing-in-omniweb/ Camino, the gecko-based web browser for OS X, hit 1.0 yesterday. Honestly, I never thought they'd hit that particular milestone, and I think they kinda rushed it. There's no spell checking, for one thing, which is something every other browser out there has. But, it's still snappy, and it's still camino. ... http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/02/15/camino-10/ Yeah, I listen to Escape Pod, what of it? http://www.pubhackers.com/2006/02/09/sci-pod-fi/