SageTV. You could hook up an HD cable box and record shows to a PC or server with a simple, intuitive interface for later viewing. Basically turned your PC or home server into an infinite PVR. It was wonderful. Google purchased and shuttered them a few years back. For a while I tried a regular pvr + Slingbox, but found it to be such garbage that I basically just stopped watching most sports rather than deal with the hassle of trying to use it. (For anything besides sports the streaming options work alright now.)
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#62I miss Boundary.
Their traffic flow monitoring with per second granularity was utterly amazing. It had almost no overhead, it gave the equivalent of netflow data for instances in EC2, way before AWS gave VPC flow logs. It was incredible.
Alas their sales team were incredibly difficult to deal with, managing to both seem to not know how or what they were selling, whilst at the same time being incredibly heavy handed, escalating to my VP over a minor delay in contract signing and causing trouble to the point I had to almost beg my VP not to tear up the contract because of their actions.
As a result of what I perceive to be the sales org's failure, the company was forced to pivot into a generic monitoring product, which lost its identity and got borged by BMC.
There's nothing like boundary on the market today, if there was I'd be lining up to buy it.
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#63Punchfork. Much better for recipe discovery than other sites I've found. It was integrated into DuckDuckGo, too!
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#64Crashplan for home. Still haven't found another unlimited plan with linux client.
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#65wired apple keyboard
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#66Atchison topeka & santa fe railway passenger service
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#67Ecco Pro
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#68I miss Boundary. Their traffic flow monitoring with per second granularity was utterly amazing. It had almost no overhead, it gave the equivalent of netflow data for instances in EC2, way before AWS gave VPC flow logs. It was incredible. Alas their sales team were incredibly difficult to deal with, managing to both seem to not know how or what they were selling, whilst at the same time being incredibly heavy handed,…
Was Boundary agent-based? You'd install something on all your instances, or start from their AMI or something?
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#69All nationally emblematic products that have now be sent to China for production. (I am Swiss, so when I see a pure "Swiss product" actually made in China, I feel uncomfortable about the marketing trying to highlight the Swissness of a Chinese product especially when they are considered luxury: Bally shoes, Sigg bottles, ...)