Indeed. The Norwegian writer, law professor, and early adopter Jon Bing had bing.no for years before Microsoft bought it from him for an undisclosed sum. Everyone's happy.

Though I suppose in a "no TLDs" world where he had .bing, Microsoft would just have named their search engine something else..

Sounds like a good idea. Would you like to work on this?

It's not that different from a skilled typist still looking at his hands once in a while. Besides the force of habit and natural tendency to look at your hands while working, it sometimes helps improve accuracy. I can type blind, but I often look down when typing in a new password. I can also play blind, but when it's not a very well rehearsed riff, I feel that looking at my left hand improves my accuracy and helps me focus on what I'm doing.

(but of course, if you're playing a guitar by vision alone, you're no better than the hunt-and-peck typist)

..and if they also have 3G ipads to go with those iphones, they count as three "coverage" people.

I like having two phones, so I can turn the work phone off and leave it at my desk when I go home for the day.

Time to buy a red Barchetta and an old farm in the country..

The way around this is to _indent_ with tabs and _align_ with spaces.

Like "UFO 2: Flying"?

As a Norwegian, I'll be celebrating Queen Sonja's birthday. ..or possibly sleeping off the drunk I'm about to have tonight..

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Unfortunately, the ReadyBoost concept seems to be patented in the US. Don't know if this patent still applies when the SSD is actually faster in every way than the moving platter disk, however. The clever trick of ReadyBoost was realizing that an USB drive could deliver a small file faster than a hard disk's seek time, so you save time even if the disk has a better sustained data rate over time for big reads.

I hate overlapping windows, and also never minimize anything except pidgin, so my 40ish (stopped counting after 30) open windows are currently spread over 7 dual 1600x1200 virtual desktops. And that's counting rdesktop as one open window.

I wouldn't accept a job where I'd be the only admin. For one thing, the company won't be set to handle my vacation time or any sick leave in a way I'm comfortable with. More importantly, I find that being the only guy who works with something gets old fast. I want someone to discuss ideas with who actually understand what I'm saying and can provide valuable input.

I love it when the boss or project manager takes this role. In addition to reminding people to eat, this person should also be in charge of making people go home to sleep, so we can continue in a useful manner tomorrow and maybe the day after.

When installing road user charging systems, the project manager also makes a fine test car driver.. :)

I'm much more happy with ours after we moved the servers to RHEL (and ~5 years more recent hardware).. We even get proper Gnome now :)

Yah. I know a few people who probably had it, and a few more who got sent home from work for a week just in case, but only one person who actually had it confirmed by blood test.

Personally, I got my vaccine early, claiming "risk group" privileges :)