MacFUSE, now works with sshfs

MacFUSE has been out since MacWorld.

I just got it installed onto a Powerbook from SVN. I used to be a great fan at running sshfs on Debian as my primary development machine. Now I don't think there's a reason to run desktop Linux at all! There is nothing to hold me back running everything on Mac OS X.

Thank you very much Amit Singh, the "Network is the computerMacintosh", because of you.

iPhone IS open enough

Slashdot has this slightly anti-iPhone post: No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs on January 12. And not surprisingly, most people there condemn Apple as not open enough, therefore won't buy it when it comes out.

I stand by my comment:
For me I don't really care about third party apps, as long as Safari works as advertise.

Safari with AJAX powered webpages can create a very compelling solution. Forget about "Network is computer" crap from Sun.... Apple finally got this working now, albeit 6 years late.

I'm sure a whole new generation of "web 2.0 companies" will be geared to make "iPhone screensize compatible" webpages, and that would be fun!

Steve Jobs is making "information truly available at finger tips now". And I cannot wait to have Pulsely to support iPhone! O yea, I thought Opera for Mobile is ubercool. Forget about it...

Geeks In Asia Use Clever Hacks To Get Slashdot

I am sure you know that a few Asian countries were hit hard with fiber lines malfunctioned after the Taiwan earthquake. Here are my my comment on Slashdot on how I got through that few days:

Geeks In Asia Use Clever Hacks To Get Slashdot

I live in Hong Kong, and indeed it was a huge disaster. I run an online flower shop myself, so we see our daily traffic went flat for the last couple of days. And I can't even ssh into our colo in USA.

Recape of the situation: 6 underground fiber lines were cut. "Foreign" sites like Slashdot, Google, EBay and Yahoo! were dead. Hong Kong based sites, Australia sites and a few European sites like BBC does work, so that give us hope. So...

On day 1 ( 12/28 ): we found out Google Hong Kong still works, and Australia sites work... so we search "australia proxy server" and funny that a few ISPs have open proxies open at 3128 (Looks like Squid Cache to me!). Since we must be an early batch, we feel wonderful to be "the only one" in town to go online, beat the odds and get all the pussies...

One day 2 (12/29): news of the proxies must have gotten out. Yahoo! Answers are full of such foreign proxies lists, and some entrepreneur hackers must have wonderful day, building their own proxies and lured people into using it. Of course your average surfers wouldn't know normal http is unencrypted... Meanwhile our "free proxy" running by that friendly Australia ISP finally adds ACL to block us out... We try installing Google Web Accelerator, and it did no good, and accessing local sites are even slower...

On day 3 (12/30): we start looking for Australia colocation / dedicated server plans to run our own proxy server. Their prices are at least 2 times more expensive than US hosting companies, so we start pinging popular hosting in USA.... ev1servers.net? down. Rackspace? up (but too pricey). Godaddy? up, and lo and behold, they have a cheap $29.99 USD virtual linux plan.

So, we setup our own Squid cache [squid-cache.org] and it finally keeps us reading Slashdot until this day

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