Mark Shead

OS X does a great job of integraging blogs with LDAP authentecation. Unfortunately it doesn’t provide an easy way to go in and delete blogs. It appears that actual blog content is kept in /Library/Application Support/Weblogs. However deleting a blog from this directory will only erase the blog entries. Any blogs that were created will still show up.

/Library/Tomcat/webapps/blojsom/ROOT/WEB-INF/blojsom.properties has a list of everyone who has an active blog. Deleting the names from this list appears to remove them from the listing that shows up at [server-name]/weblog. There are also individual settings in this folder that control the settings of each individual blog.

Microsoft finally gave the world a look at its next generation video game system the Xbox 360 on a special MTV broadcast hosted by Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood.

The new console features a 20-gigabyte hard drive and three 3.2-gigahertz PowerPC microprocessors that will enable high-definition graphics and six-channel surround sound.

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It is interesting to see that Microsoft is moving away from Intel in this product. I would have expected them to stay with the processor that the use for most of their Windows operating system. Back in the days of NT 4 there was a port that would let it run on the power PC processor, but it was discountinued.

The Apple Blog is excited about the possibility of installing Tiger on the XBox 360.

The thought that gets me really excited is the hackable possibilities of the XBOX 360 platform. A triple core 3ghz machine for $300 or $400? Heck yes I would. People have already hacked PearPC onto a current XBOX. Why not install Tiger on a native Power PC based system such as the new XBOX 360?

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Sounds good in theory, but I have a feeling that it wouldn’t turn out to be all that useful. Yes PearPC can run on the current XBox, but it is more of a cool hacking trick than something useful. The only truly useful hack I’ve seen for the current XBox is the media center software. (But I should note that I don’t follow the gaming industry that closely.)

From eWeek:

America Online is moving into the Web-based e-mail market on Wednesday by tying e-mail into its popular AOL Instant Messenger service.
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The free service will feature 2GB of storage, spam and anti-virus protection, and an interface that lets users drag and drop messages to organize and save them in folders, AOL is announcing.

AIM Mail will be based on AIM screen names and the aim.com domain. AOL’s existing base of 21 million active AIM users can use their current screen names as e-mail addresses and access the mail service once they download AIM 5.9. New users also can start e-mail accounts when they install AIM 5.9.

While AIM Mail initially will be accessed through the AIM client and its embedded version of the AOL Explorer browser, AOL plans to make it available from any browser through the AOL.com site once a full version is released in June, said Roy Ben-Yoseph, director of communication and client products at AOL.

Actually I logged on today using my AIM account and was able to get into the beta version of webmail. I don’t know if it will work for everyone’s account (I used to be a subscriber to AOL about 10 years ago). If you want to try go to mail.aol.com. It seems to give errors in Safari, but I was able to login using firefox.

From B’s Blog:

It’s obvious they’re aiming at the same market when what they offer includes 2GB of mail storage, IMAP access, spam and anti-virus protection, and a couple other things which are different, but probably not very smart.

I haven’t tested this yet, but if they offer imap access, I think that would be huge. That is one area where Gmail seems to be falling short. If AOL offers imap I might start using it as my secondary email address. The only problem is I’m not sure how bad the sigma of having an AOL account would be. Gmail comes across much “cooler.”

From Betanews:

In addition to its own points of exposure, AOL is permitting open e-mail access from third party clients by enabling IMAP support. But, it could be said that as one door opens another slams shut; AOL has forced the installation of the Internet Explorer based AOL Explorer Web browser as the only accepted method to access the AIM Today Window.

I’m using the firefox for the webclient for the mail, so if they are forcing IE, it doesn’t seem to be directly related to the mail service.