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You are mostly correct. We are primarily regulating access to a all@university mailing list, but we also have restrictions that prevent mass emails being sent via gmail (though I'm…

I currently work for the web communications part of a small-to-medium size university. We have around 2000 employees and 8000 students. We embrace all google products on campus. We…

I'm nearly in the same boat. I've been at the same company for some time now and started bringing my personal macbook to work to code on. After awhile, I was so productive they bou…

This is indeed sweet. I haven't done much research on this, so maybe someone else on HN would know, but are there any plans on having embedded "sound fonts"?

Keven Smith is a smart guy who can tell a great story. "An Evening with Kevin Smith [1 & 2]" are both great DVD's where he goes from college to college telling life stories and ans…

I tried your sentence "The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat" and got "seattle hookers gatwick to see a beautiful pizza ri boat". You win.

I absolutely agree. I work primarily on an local network at my work, so I don't often think about it.

This one is simple, but I like it. Use -X command to launch a local x11 session for a given remote application. Works for Linux and OSX machines with x11 installed. >ssh -X user@re…

I'm curious if elevated levels of serotonine for extremely long periods of time would cause memory loss alone. It seems to me that memory is very much a "wow that just stood out fr…

I don't think this applies to my Mom. She is 50 years old and has installed harddrives (both scsi & ide), memory, formated and installed Windows 98,XP,ME (blah) and 7. Set up her o…

There was a really interesting This American Life about this very subject. It does a great job of explaining some of the issues surrounding what Goldman Sachs did, though not about…

The macbook pro 13" is worth the money for the unibody alone. I own a 13MB and the white plastic case is cracking in more places then I care to mention. I got them to fix it once, …

I'd only buy it if it made a cool airlock decompression noise everytime I open the door.