This is too cool. Haven't googled myself in a while, I'm so damned special that the first 3 pages are just me and a couple references to my dead grandfather.

The special part is that the only ads that come up are for leather products! $1000 minimum order... ouch

IT (me and the dba) reported to the VP of development. His job (and his underlings) was to develop algorithms to deal with the data produce by the DNA analysis systems run by the research group. Since they were the primary "real" server users it was a reasonable match. Back office and desktop support were my problem as well, but I reported those issues directly to the Pres/CEO since that's where my budget came from and the VP of dev didn't care if the secretary at the front desk couldn't get her email.

"real" in this case meaning the DB and data crunching systems, the stuff used for product development. As with a much larger organization that side of IT got a completely separate budget from standard services and DT support.

Yes it costs money, but it does a ton of things. It keeps a database for your tags/whatever but you can have it apply any and all info it knows about your pictures to the EXIF/IPTC fields. There's a ton of scriptability and you can export the DB to tons of formats (and define your own format). Hey just looked at the website and it supports XMP as well (another metadata in the file thing).

http://www.photools.com/

No I get nothing for this (haven't even looked to see if I could). Satisfied customer.

The business I work for goes through tapes like they're used to make coffee. Primary use: legal escrow of source code.

I have posted a few bugs to the gentoo bug tracker over the last year and have not gotten any more spam because of it. My wife gets far more spam, presumably since she's joined a number of yahoo groups for random special interests of hers.

Looks like paying a pro to run Cat5 would be cheaper than these things all over the house.

Better yet try :200 it works from anywhere in the file.

Seriously coondoggie, that's not how it works. This is an IR detector. Speed of light limitations, not to mention power requirements for umping enough IR into the sky to see any reflections, I mean... wow.

What company sells full cartridges as replacements ?

Unison from UPenn http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Works on all the platforms you mentioned... It can synchronize 2 disparate directory trees (you made updates to files A, B, C on one system and D, E, F on another system and want to merge them) and when it can't figure out what to do it asks you.

Since psychoacoustic is explicitly mentioned in regard to audio compression tech (like MP3) I think he just invented a term for "I ripped it to MP3"

Well, it's a windows app and it's not open source... BUT!

It's free as in beer and damned easy to setup/use: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_TFTP_server.aspx

fat32 works well enough for storing tarballs should I need to go Linux->Linux with permissions and all that. Most of the time though the UID/GID clashing isn't worth going so far as a tarball unless I need permissions preserved. I rarely transfer mixed permissions files, it's usually some form of document or media so again... fat32.

I'd use a loopback ext3 if I really needed to not use tar for some weird reason.

So because investment banks have a craptacular business plan and fail miserably after they saturate the market with impossible financial instruments their use of Linux to get the job done isn't a recommendation?

Linux didn't screw up their business, their business plan (which probably never mentioned Linux) is what screwed them.

Bill Nye, my kids have the theme song memorized.

Sid the Science Kid. Not bad really, drives the whole "it's not magic, figure it out!" thing.

And just to throw in some non-TV things:

Lego for the fine motor skills and figuring out how to make something cool

Find a sport your kid is into. I can't stand baseball and I like soccer (playing at least), I don't know if it's genetic or what, but my son is much the same. Sports are cool because of things like gravity and all his friends.