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My (former) home network backup solution had a truecrypt volume created locally, and rsync'ed to my offsite backup provider (rsync.net). It did not have to send the entire volume f…

That's not what the "Entrepenurial Walk of Fame" sitting in front of the Kendall Square Marriott says. http://boston.tumblr.com/post/10274370791

This. Please, somebody, take my money!

Buildings also need to be maintained and retrofitted. Around here in Cambridge, there are countless residential and commercial buildings that were built before the days of electric…

David is spot on when it comes to the complexity of the documentation; it's great that it's exhaustive, but it would be nice to have the "here's how to use it" documentation near t…

TI calculators were toys for children. Real Engineers use HP! Lots of good memories with my HP-48G, until it got stolen just before I graduated.

Oblig: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

It would be creepier if you put someone else's head on the doll.

That reminds me; the saison I've got going in the secondary needs to be bottled this weekend. (Didn't read the article)

Maybe we should stop kicking out the people from foreign countries with the advanced degrees they earn here.

They apparently care about a missing hockey puck. "[The] FBI's Regional Crimes Task Force in Chicago reviewed the Chicago police sergeant's video and determined with "100-percent c…

The Data Liberation project is at least a token attempt to ward off accusations of Google lock-in: http://www.dataliberation.org/

It is interesting to see that Apple positions their retail employees more as an extension of their support and brand marketing operations, and less of a simple direct sales channel…

This contributed to me "switching" to an Android phone, rather than upgrading to an iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 3G ( not the GS), that recently came out of contract (purchased 9/2009…

s/easier/less costly/

Coral cached version: http://www.loper-os.org.nyud.net/?p=401

Consider that Apple has neglected the non-Pro MacBook for quite a while: it still uses a Core 2 Duo processor, and the MacBook Pro line includes a small-form-factor 13" machine tha…

Agile development practices are at the point of their adoption cycles where the hype has died down, and the chaff has been thrown out. Organizations of all sizes have adopted agile…

Cool. There are some classics in there. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj2...

This joke is now old enough to drink in the US. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

I have high hopes for this series; I really enjoyed Peter Michaux's "Scheme from Scratch" series, from which the author says gained inspiration for his series: http://peter.michaux…

I would argue that avoiding vendor lock out is a major reason Open Software exists: with an OS database, nobody can tell you that you can no longer use the DB software unless you p…

The banks seem to have plenty of money sitting in their coffers to loan out. I've never heard of a (healthy) bank- even smaller neighborhood banks- run into trouble because the wea…

The whole thing, from lathering to cleanup, takes me around 15 minutes. Many people can do it faster, but this gives me time to wake up.

The Futur, choice of Bill Adama! (Though most people think it looks like the Vision, I can't tell) Anyway, you can probably get started on the cheap if you have any living male rel…