tekk

Hey man, You're in luck... as since 3.1 live camera access is a documented and apple approved API (see http://developer.apple.com) If you're on a Mac the best way to start developing for the iPhone platform is to grab the iPhone SDK from apple, however if you want to deploy apps to your device, then you will need a developer license $99, which will provide you with certificates to sign apps for the device. The development platform (officially) is xcode with gcc/bsdsubsystem however in xcode on snow leopard you can use CLang ;) google it heh.

xANTlx, on OS X you need to install MIME::Base32, but before you can do that you need to install Apple Developer Tools, which should be on your OS X dvd, or alternatively you can grab them (xcode) from http://developer.apple.com, once you've done that simply open up a terminal and run: perl -MCPAN -e 'install MIME::Base32' Then all should work :)

newzbin invite for me please =))))) anyone?

Did you enable both AFP and bonjour discovery? this should help the Mac OS X users connect, I have a rather large FreeNAS implementation with many Mac OS X clients and its working impeccably. Failing that you could just create some Apple scripts to mount the desired shares and align them with a hot key or loginwindow item :)

FreeNAS is good and as it is based upon FreeBSD it does support all the GEOM soft raid methods... however I would avoid using those and go for FreeNAS 0.7RC1, this comes with ZFS support, which is Sun's new Zettabyte filing system (look it up), but basically you can make expandable and mixed raid's with any level of disk parity redundancy you like along with hot spare / mirroring also. The bonus of ZFS is that all of your data is checksummed live in the filing system, so you can be aware of hdd problems/failures before they happen... + you can do ZFS snapshots which are "time machine" like... But the only problem you may find is that zfs in FreeNAS is old, so it requires some kernel tweaking (especially if you only have 1gb ram), another consideration is that as you are using a single USB bus (in a notebook) that has a theoretical maximum of 580mbit or whatever... you are not going to get the best performance possible as this is your bottleneck... great for storing music and movies, bad for video editing / multiple-user NAS systems. =) hope this helps.