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I am a run of the mill enterprise sysadmin. The largest cluster I've ever built was 128 node oracle grid and I've never had to solve a scaling problem more difficult then "add more…

My favorite tilling WM http://wmii.suckless.org/ You can configure it with any scripting language but the downside is the help is lacking compared to the IRC community for XMonad a…

This strikes me as slightly funny/ironic. As a sysadmin/IT person I do small programing jobs for side cash. :) When possible I try not to contribute spaghetti into the wild.

At this risk of sounding stupid, what is this #startups channel? # like irc?

Good info thank you. Without a doubt I need to learn more. I'm just a dumb tech person.

I'm in Vegas. I'm Willing to look for customers in LA, SF and Phoenix as well as here in the Vegas metro area. In reality the job can be done remotely from anywhere. Do these appoi…

Alain, Thanks for the link, and good advice. That's the trouble I'm having now is all the sales people I do know I would consider con artists before I'd call them good sales people…

I'm in the process of trying to start a small managed services company and I am completely lost as to how to find sales people. Any thoughts? I have a tech demo showing off all the…

I typed a password, It "stood out" so I had my wife see if she could read it and she couldn't. I had her type a password and I could read it no problem. once she had typed it she c…

That would be the single best thing to happen to my computing environment ever.

He asks for $2.99 min so his paypal fees are payed, etc. I gave a bit more and got a personal thank you. It does have a demo mode as well.

Ha, I'm posting it again, but only because I love this software so much. Check out SizeUp http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ It has replaced Mercury Mover for me.

Not to keep pushing this software, but SizeUp allows for a keyboard shortcut to do full size windows (for any window) and then snap back to previous size, plus a whole mess of othe…

This might help. http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/

I agree, If you are going to install Linux, even something as "it just works" as Ubuntu there are better laptops to choose for hardware support. I still think there are fan sensor/…