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Fake Your Own .Mac Server
c13v3rm0nk3y writes "A clever fellow named Otto Moerbeek has publish a short article on getting an OpenBSD box to emulate a .Mac server. Using Apache/DAV/SSL and a roll a duct-tape, he describes how you can get most .Mac functionality without paying Apple for it."
This is useful because then you can use apple's backup tools to backup to a local server, and not have to backup over your piddly internet connection.
Nice name for a geek.
I like this idea. So we can emulate .Mac servers, BNETD servers, advertising servers, Cydoor servers, and even :CueCat servers. Setting up independent servers has the obvious advantage of being independent from an ultimate authority, decentralizing the service and making it more useful to the Internet community. So I ask Slashdot, what commericial or otherwise propertiary server will be reverse-engineered and cloned next? My vote is in for an Oscar/TOC server so one could use AOL-IM to communicate with one's LAN.
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...getting a fixed IP costs way more than a .mac account.
Well, I can sell you 192.168.0.1 really cheap, just mail me you kredit card number.
Livetime access granted.
That's MY IP number....
Someone sold me that one awhile back.
nbfn
Does this mean it will be down half the time and slow as hell?
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
"A clever fellow named Otto Moerbeek has publish a short article on getting an OpenBSD box to emulate a .Mac server. Using Apache/DAV/SSL and a roll a duct-tape, he describes how you can get most .Mac functionality without paying Apple for it."
Is it just me or is anyone else trying to figure out what the duct tape is for?
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Really. I wanted to see an innovative use of duct tape on a Mac.
Lousy Slashdot editors. Convincing me to read a story when there's actually no duct tape involved.
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Now I can charge myself $99 a year!
Actually, I use those for Skeet shooting, so now I owe the clay pidgeon manufacturers. Maybe if I used those as soupbowls...
Oh wait...
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
Hey! I make soup bowls for a living. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
Can anyone who knows of other free imap email accounts please list them here? Apple cut off my Mac.com email account after twice asking them not to, and since they have chosen to wrap up Mac.com email accounts with .Mac and charge me $160 for one useful email account and a bunch of other completely useless services, I would like to see what sort of other IMAP accounts are out there, preferably ones that can be interfaced with Outlook Express.
Thanks.
Well, smoking crack is illegal and you're obviously doing a lot of that.
The article explains how to customize Apple's backup software, included in OSX for which you paid over $100, to backup to a different server.
That's about as unethical as using a Mister Microphone rather than listening to commercial radio.
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