I have started moving all the information how to's etc to http://joe-ma-how-to.blogspot.com/

There is a new picture site on the net
At the moment there are a little over 100 pictures all of them at full size are 3456 x 2304 res and average about 4 megs each.
Most of these pics are taken in South Africa there are more to come.
The pictures are perfect for those of you who like Pictures of Mountains or of Wild Animals although there are some of the Beach and there ill be more soon as the site grows.



The sites address is www.catcher.za.org

























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on the 20th of April last your John Gruber decided to turn http://daringfireball.net into a full time job, so far he has done pretty damn well and is a part of my daily read.
The daringfireball RSS feed has lived in my browsers bookmark tool bar folder since I found it back in Firefox 0.something days.

Anyway since he decided to go full time the site has flourished some what. So if you are looking for something to keep yourself entertained with, when it comes to all things Mac related from the OS to the jackass of the month (a personal favourite) and practically any other design aspect in the Mac world or beyond, then this is a site for you to visit.
And if you really want to make it worth your while consider signing up as a member its only $19 a year
And the Prizes that are up for grabs this your are phenomenal.

A grand total of 122 Prizes for 122 winners

for his full write up in this go here
The 2007 Daring Fireball Membership Drive

I have 2 old webcams lying around one is an ancient Genius webcam the other is an Ancient Creative webcam
neither of them work with Mac OS X and its not like you can find Mac OS X drivers for these thing either.
Well thats what I thought.

Enter Macam
Macam is a set of USB drives that support hundreds of webcams even a few that I have never heard of.
The Macam software actually works with Skype and QuickTime and probably a few other bits of software
if you use iChat and do not have a iSight webcam you can use shareware software called iChatUSBCam

From the Macam site:
"macam is a driver for USB webcams on Mac OS X. It allows hundreds of USB webcams to be used by many Mac OS X video-aware applications. The aim is to support as many webcams as possible.


In addition, macam also supports downloading of images from some dual-mode cameras. macam especially tries to support those cameras not supported by Apple or by their manufacturers.


macam consist of an application and a component. Run the macam application to verify whether your camera works with your Mac and your USB setup.



The component is that actual driver that allows other applications to access the video-stream. "

Well FreeBSD 6.2-Release is here
its a little later than expected but no big deal there its not like it 5 years late....

Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:29:19 -0500
From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.2 Released

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights:

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freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches
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Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
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OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library
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KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1
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csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included
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Disk integrity protection and authentication added to geli(8)
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New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers
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IPFW(4) packet tagging
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Linux emulation support for sysfs
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BIND updated to 9.3.3
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Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce(4), ata(4), and iwi(4)

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

What is FreeBSD
FreeBSD is an operating system based on 4.4 BSD Lite for DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha/AXP computers (alpha), AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (amd64), Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen “x86” based PC hardware (i386), Intel Itanium Processor based computers (ia64), NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (pc98), and UltraSPARC® machines (sparc64). Versions for the PowerPC® (powerpc), and MIPS® (mips) architectures are currently under development as well. FreeBSD works with a wide variety of peripherals and configurations and can be used for everything from software development to games to Internet Service Provision.

This release of FreeBSD contains everything you need to run such a system, including full source code for the kernel and all utilities in the base distribution. With the source distribution installed, you can literally recompile the entire system from scratch with one command, making it ideal for students, researchers, or users who simply want to see how it all works.

A large collection of third-party ported software (the “Ports Collection”) is also provided to make it easy to obtain and install all your favorite traditional UNIX® utilities for FreeBSD. Each “port” consists of a set of scripts to retrieve, configure, build, and install a piece of software, with a single command. Over 16,000 ports, from editors to programming languages to graphical applications, make FreeBSD a powerful and comprehensive operating environment that extends far beyond what's provided by many commercial versions of UNIX. Most ports are also available as pre-compiled “packages”, which can be quickly installed from the installation program.