almost drr…
With the new iPod nano from Apple, it looks like someone is starting to implement a digital radio recorder. It’d be nice if it wasn’t just the “skip” or “pause” protection, but it’s a start.
Category: technical
avoiding the voicemail prompts
I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings: It turns out that each carrier offers a “bypass the instructions†keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person’s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.) To be as evil as…
more help from stackoverflow
I realize I asked this question a while back, but in reviewing some of my history, I was reminded of how helpful the site has been for a variety of issues. And I’m sure that questions like this one regarding VMware and VPNs is something “I should have known” – but not knowing where to…
html 5
A list apart has a nice write-up of the forthcoming HTML 5 standard. If you are like most designers, you probably don’t write all your markup by hand. But until the tools you use catch up to the new elements in (X)HTML 5, you will be doing some markup by hand while you learn. There’s…
tiny code
I ran across the Tiny Code site recently, and was reminded of how many of us started programming on ancient machines that barely had enough horsepower to handle typing – yet we’d spend hours on end writing little games and whatnot that had to be small or they wouldn’t run. I’d love to see a…
backblaze storage pods
Yet another link I found off Hacker News, the Backblaze storage pod – 67 Terabytes of storage in a rack-mountable unit for <$8k. I’d love one or two or 80 of these in my spare bedroom 🙂
opennms on serverfault.com
While I don’t currently use OpenNMS, I do lurk on the mailing lists to learn about it 🙂 While on serverfault today, I thought about checking to see what OpenNMS questions there may be, and found several. None I’m qualified to answer, but the results are here: http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/opennms. For posts that merely have OpenNMS mentioned:…