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FreeNAS is awesome and extensible. Out of the box it's quite functional and it's open source. It's the backbone of my work/home network. All the Linux boxes have it mounted in the …

How about a response instead of a downvote? This is getting stupid. I asked a legitimate question, which given the fact y'all want to be millionaires selling software deserves an a…

That's great. Can't both co-exist?

Well, on the other side of it. It only takes one bad customer having a bad day to shit all over your business. Some people are crazy and vindictive. Like the guy who reported me to…

Yeah, this is perfect for an April's fools gag. It's still pretty good. It's weird they did not put in a more visible link to their real service. http://www.macminicolo.net

As a big fan of the GPL I don't mean to come across as totally flippant. However, I just don't see a problem with people selling themes. In a hurry, not enough skills, buy a theme.…

I think the barriers to entry in many business fields are just getting higher and higher.

Is the Wordpress founder annoyed somehow that he has helped create a thriving marketplace?

I was enthusiastically commenting on a healthy niche market and then I used a metaphor point out that it's not just a hobby or a toy that these people are working on. It's a sophis…

Metaphor: "It's train CNC!" Simile: "It's like CNC for trains!" Literal truth: "It's called DCC actually" If your point was to add information, then there was a better way to do it…

It has been said that what the current patents issue creates is a landscape where you can only be the one winner or among the many losers. If there was a different solution, then t…

I just took a look at the JMRI page and it's very a very cool little niche market ecosystem. Software and hardware both. Yet another advanced peripheral system, Train CNC!

It's an analogy. A tool to further understanding. On many levels software is just like many other businesses, Just like many other businesses are like software on some levels. I ow…

I just put Evince on all my Windows machines and I am very happy about it. I was able to remove all the Adobe Air bonus arterial sclerosis. I tried Foxit and was not very impressed…

Right with you on the custom furniture thing. Most skilled crafts-people are booked for months ahead. The ones that I know don't want to scale because then they would not be making…

The I want it now crowd make me want to quit what I used to love doing. The fallout from the last decade has been, an inability to discern quality, often using price as the yardsti…

It's a catchy name. They were smart to jump on it. One of the bands I linked is pretty heavy grunge metal and the other is an international singer songwriter, so I think their net …

Not my personal company, the one I use... which is tiny. They have treated me well, I have not noticed any downtime, but I am not very sensitive to that. They also allow virtual do…

My tiny hosting company Varialhosting offers POP and Imap. I did a quick search and there are tons of providers that offer Imap.

Yet another point in support of my new adage, " Live in the Cloud, die by the cloud." Got Buzzed? Got Blogger DMCA'd? Tired of having targeted ads in your email, tired of worrying …

Not to be sarcastic, but there is the whole internet full of tools to point people at your Bandcamp or MySpace page, in fact that's what people are doing for their MySpace music pa…

That's a really well done page, unlike most of the eye-pain clutter people generally do.

Take a look at Bandcamp, it's the last nail in MySpace's coffin. Main page, http://www.bandcamp.com/ Random couple of artist pages for an indication of the customization available,…