Links from around the web: 2006-05-27

• Prosper People-to-People Lending Marketplace

  I’ve seen a bunch of personal finance bloggers talk about Prosper lately and honestly I don’t see the sense in it.

• Searchlight Crusade: Fear and Greed, or How Did The Housing Bubble Get So Big?

• Alphecca: Clear Thinker of the Day

  This is part of my occassional series on letters to the editor and op-eds by people who demonstrate clear thinking on the issue of guns and gun control.

  Jacob Greenleaf does not have any guns of his own. What he does have is an excellent, sane grasp on the reality of criminals. Regarding the murder of several people in the Capital Hill district of Seattle by Kyle Huff, he writes in today's Seattle Times...

  Mr. Greenleaf's arguments are well-thought-out, compelling, and presented without rhetoric.

• Fearless Philosophy For Free Minds: 10 Terms and Phrases to be Wary of

  And they are:

  • Activist vs. Lobbyist
  • Affirmative Action
  • "Bush lied about WMD in Iraq"
  • Democracy
  • Economic Equality
  • Income Gap
  • Living Wage
  • Price Gouging
  • Undocumented Immigrant
  • Working Class

• 80%: Backup Up Data

  Between photos of Annie, other photography and music, I have quite a bit of data. Probably over 300GB now and growing fast.

• What do you need to build a RAID 5 array server and how much does it cost?

• Mount Remote SSH Filesystem with FUSE

  Mounting a remote filesystem with sshfs allows you to do anything on the files, just like local files. Because it is an SSH connection, it is secure (encrypted, two-way authenticated), and it works with almost any ssh server.

  Mounting with FUSE sshfs mount filesystems on the filesystem level, so unlike Gnome VFS (Places: Connect to Server), all programs can work with the files. FUSE sshfs also works without a graphical user interface.

Written by Andrew Ittner in misc on Sat 27 May 2006. Tags: money, rights, society, technology