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These haunted servers were actually supermicro barebones chassis. It has been a (long) while since I have seen the inside of an e450 but iirc there were a bunch of fans in trays in…

So 10 years and a few employers ago, we had a case of a few "haunted" server chassis. Hard drives would fail on these chassis very frequently, and when a fresh drive was swapped in…

In the "updates" section, he shows that there is a new system to attach some phosphorescent plastic between the spokes next to the rim. It isn't clear if these are included with th…

I was thinking of something related to this earlier today. One thing I'd really like from the emergency call screen is to allow me to tag several of my contacts as emergency contac…

The best way I've seen for dealing with cache expiry, which the article does not talk about, is to use version numbers on assets. We found this to be especially important with java…

Is there a good way to phrase (i.e. "Doctor Speak") for something like "No Code unless a probably positive outcome with intervention"?

Also think for a minute about what "you should be ok" means in this context. Sure, if you are developing something in your spare time that kinda-mostly-doesn't-compete with what yo…

I've always thought the "Drive to the datacentre" argument was BS. If you're writing your app for the cloud, you have to deal with spurious instances going away, degrading, etc. It…

Access to live sports is the only thing keeping me from cutting the cord. Everything else we watch is readily available from other sources 'a la carte' which would be much less exp…

About 10 years ago during a minor earthquake in the California Bay Area, I happened to be on the phone with my girlfriend at the time who was in Mountain View, I was in San Jose. T…

I am reminded of this post: http://gadgetopia.com/post/6819 I think your thoughts of being a talentless nobody have more to do with gaining experience than it does having access to…

I've seen similar systems, such as "Which one of these four images is a puppy?". I think the problem is that the set has to be small, so it ends up being a multiple choice quiz. Wi…

If you're not paying for it, you're the product.

What a nice surprise to wake up and check HN to find an article I'd written four years ago trending on the front page. :-)

They've F-ed them up worse than that, a few months ago I got a full feed of Fleshbot in the place of my Gizmodo feed. Fortunately I closed my laptop in time, or it could have been …

I find that with the new 90 degree connector it is much more likely to be yanked in parallel to the machine. The metal mount is much more durable but I've had my laptop nearly pull…

With some of the first magsafe-based macs, I was buying a new power adapter every three months or so. The cord would fray at the end of the way-too-small strain relief between the …

This hits close to home for me. My wife is currently going through the process to get a one-year internship to for her psychology doctorate, which is required for graduation. Havin…

Now combine that with dsh ( http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en ) and authorized_keys, you can _really_ get in trouble. dsh is similar to this Cluster SSH, but is…

I don't think 6 years "trying to do a startup" is the same as a complete lack of work experience, unless you spent the entire 6 years trying to raise money and making powerpoint sl…

This morning, my normally SFW "Tech News" folder in Google Reader was full of full-on explicit pornography - apparently at some point the feed URL was redirected to their Fleshbot …

This already exists in California to some degree. The state offered a limited number of stickers to hybrid cars that allows them access to the carpool lanes with a single driver. T…

FWIW, most of the "Major Players" support the Crawl-Delay directive in robots.txt, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl... I know at minimum GoogleBot …