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Neurofunk. Try on the lifted music podcast from Spor and Chris Renegade on for a good dose.

I never got it to work. Multiple boxes, various problems. I was really sort of interested in building on it and liked the concept, but I ended up just tossing it in the end and syn…

Yeah, I'm completely lost at Dropbox's new price point when compared to Jungle Disk, which is just as, if not more flexible than Dropbox. Jungle Disk is a lot more user friendly th…

Today when cementing some things with my new company, I'd realized I've amassed quite a few Google Accounts -- personal, my company, and someone I consult(ed) for. There's also the…

Probably when SysAdmins did too, as I believe the ChromeOS program manager was quoted along those lines the other day. The wording was closer to pink slipping them completely, but …

Has anyone used Kinect's video chat? Does it work with computers or is it like the PS3 where you have to have another PS3 to have video? I'm really surprised no one has tried to de…

Conflict free iPhones made by Chinese slave labor. There is absolutely no way to get past the fact that someone may have died to bring you that shiny gadget. As disconnected as peo…

Not so much. There are some open source projects based around red5 like bigbluebutton, but for the most part, they don't work all that well. Adobe Connect, or Acrobat.com, or whate…

I've found that it's great for a sort of RAD tool, but the functionality ends there because licensing and scalability are so expensive. The other problem is that it's so generally …

This sounds super for Facebook users, but does this entice any Non-Facebook users? Are they doing anything to capture the people who don't see value in it?

Google does it now but integration is poor, and I suppose Facebook sort of took the user stories and simplified them but... I don't see how this is different than anything Yahoo di…

The only thing with gmail is that it's a pain to deal with between Voice/IM/GTalk, it's far from unified and you can't use it like normal GMail users if you're GAFYD. Google talk s…

Lion Server? Has there even been talk of it? Dead now? I'd imagine the only use case for server that couldn't be done easily in a better way was spotlight server, and it's only a m…

My body and mind have taken a beating I don't think I can do much longer from ten years of useless night work swinging shifts sometimes three times a week, that guy is too happy. T…

I missed some context there. I thought "yes, I need medicine after night work". Why did I completely miss the mark? Swing shifts all week.

Folks have mentioned Eclipse as an IDE, but there's also Eclipse as a platform. I have three Eclipse RCP apps I use for visualization daily. I also manage a lot of equipment that r…

Large scale engineering dept guy here, the problem there is that most companies like that won't accept a SaaS solution. Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely brilliant. I think it's …

It's easy to say you're doing it wrong, it's much harder to say how you'd do it right. The ideas are there, they need some integration. Google News? I abuse the heck out of it, jus…

I was laying in bed and for whatever reason it just smacked me in the face. Yes, there's a reason, and I was reminded of an anecdote regarding blackberries being served in the lobb…

According to the presentation, it's supposed to be made a standard. I'm assuming this would hit the IETF's Audio/Video transport working group, so that'd be where to keep a lookout…

Are you sure? That seems to be nothing but delivery of transport streams over HTTP and suggests nothing of negotiating calls ala SIP.

Thomas Limoncelli's book "Time Management for System Administrators" covered how to deal with all your "customers" years ago. There's some google videos of presentations regarding …

Good luck. This data is worth more than the actual revenue and income for most of these companies. It's how they negotiate for carriage in different avenues and grow at all. I've o…

While awesome for a lot of tasks, I've still found that a file system and OS tweaked for a particular task can have remarkable results. On a system with a few hundred thousand RRD …

Oh Jesus, can't we all stop gawking at Facebook bullshit? No one can figure out what Facebook is, but if you haven't succumbed to it, you're intimidated by it. It's worth billions …