Using the Piclens plugin with Firefox, you can browse any of the galleries in 3D!

If you send your pictures from your camera phone to cameraphone(at)hardcoredreamer.com with the word pic in the subject line, it will be auto-imported into the gallery. This should be fun, assuming we don’t get spammed.

DJ Aaron Z and some of my favorite people in the world spent a week partying in Chicago and Detroit for the The Detroit Electronic Music Festival!. They uploaded so many awesome pictures, that I recommend installing the Firefox Piclens plugin to browse them all in 3D!

DEMF 2008 Detroit Michigan

Detroit during DEMF weekend is like a surreal city torn from the pages of a fictional book that only exists in the hearts of dead poets. This city reflects the changing times that left it in the booming industrial era of early last century. At the heart of any place there are good people and bad, and most of the news from this city comes from the negative reports of violence on the news or a statistic comparing the level of violence with some cities in Iraq. But for one weekend at the end of May, the birthplace of techno comes alive as fans of electronic music make the pilgrimage back to the city that gave us dance music and parties that last for days. We were happy to attend this event and the all of the great after parties and here are some pix snapped by some of uf that attended to document : Rebbecca S., Seth T., Eon M, Aaron Z, Brandon B, Tara N, Tara M, Ruthie B, Claudia C and many others. Enjoi

OSX saves .DS_Store and other resource-fork metadata files such as .Appledouble onto hard drives and network shares. These normally are completely invisible to a Mac OSX user, but once you start to browse the drives with different operating systems, you get all sorts of helpful files that can be annoying or get in your way.

These show up either with period, or as a hex number beginning with a : with netatalk, which allows a faster and more native sharing of APF over TCP. With FTP or SMB servers, you can ignore or veto the creation of these files.  A way to avoid copying resource forks & metadata to network shares, you can try this hint to disable it as a finder preference.

It seems like nobody has ever discovered that the Darwin OSX man page for the terminal command “cp”, which is used to copy a file or directory recursively, has built a SIMPLE parameter to completely skip any of these!

First, I mounted my network share, which is just called rayray using Finder’s Connect To Server menu item. This put rayray in /Volumes/rayray Then I can run cp with the -X parameter!

cp -vRX /path/to/folder /Volumes/rayray

This will show each file as it is copied and happily it goes *fast* and skips all of those files!

By the way, I still have to test NFS’s speed, but with netatalk using Appletalk over TCP Apple File Transfers, I get 50-60MB/s over a gigabit crossover cable as opposed to 30-35MB/s with Samba. Kinda neat

I want to point out that this person’s blog was the most helpful resource to getting Avahi-Daemon to advertise exactly what I wanted, so if you’re setting up a Linux server on your network with services that you want to appear in Finder, Terminal, and other places automagically, check out HolyArmy.org

Some great new pics in his album! Click the picture to check them out!