You use borg backup and upload it to the cloud. Offsite backups are super important, but probably not ones that allow google to dig through and market for free. Although, I suppose you could accept that, and that's the "payment" for the offsite storage. Fortunately it's super cheap to not have anyone dig through your stuff, and just back it up encryptedly.

Yep. I've been using TinyTiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/) since the Original Google Reader went away. Syndicated webcomics is the way to go for those. Hosting my own, and paid for the Android APP. For news, I've not come up with a great solution.

This is really nice! Finally a multi-user replacement for microsoft project :D
I'm going to try it out today :D Not that slashdot cares :)

Could sub every "trac" in that post with "redmine" and it'd be the same thing.

I like the feel of redmine more than trac, but that's just about the only difference.

I do wish redmine had a more robust bug tracker. Some of the features that bugzilla has would be nice specifically this one (Yes I'm shamelessly pushing my bug on slashdot in the hopes that someone with more time than I have will get 'er done :D

Well, the book is called "Service Oriented Architecutres with Java."
If you're concerned about interoperability, then you will obviously test with other languages. But if you're building multiple services in your company/business for your use, and you're all using Java, then I don't see any reason to use another language. Although, I'd prefer to use OSGi as then you avoid the whole XML thingy.

I'm not certain that's correct. Aluminum will burn http://www.g2mil.com/aluminum.htm
So you've got ice there also, and when it vaporizes, it's adding more oxygen and hydrogen to the fire, thus keeping it burning, since in space, you don't have enough of those.

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/
Just turn on encryption in your favorite torrent client, and only allow encrypted connections. In combination with the Distributed Hash Table, Magnet Links, and Peer Exchange, an entirely decentralized file sharing system will work

I think that might be part of the reason I don't like Eclipse. I don't get the functionality I want without customizing the crap out of it. That might be useful for some, but not for me. I like power, but I also like convention, so long as it follows the convention I use.

I think that's fairly non-committal, which is what the slashdot summary stated.
Most of the comments state that they're missing out on something by not throwing their full weight behind Netbeans.
Then again, Oracle could just be waiting to see what they're gonna do...

Hmm, as a java development platform (and as a C/C++ development IDE) it is unrivaled by Eclipse. Things seem to work so much smoother in netbeans. You don't have to configure the shit out of it to use it. Most stuff follows the convention over configuration principle. At least that's the way it seems to me
Every time I use eclipse I'm surprised at the exceptional amount of options there are to do something simple. I rarely use them. Most of the options could be done with a couple bits of typing anyway.
As for the RCP stuff, I don't particularly care about that. I think eclipse has the upper hand in that stuff, as that's what it was designed to be in the first place, unlike Netbeans, which was designed to be a Java IDE.

Too bad the original goatse is gone. Oh the fun times.

You know, geocities is closing today, but it lives on at x10.com

from http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/Insteon It appears that you can actually use insteon quite well with Open Source stuff.

As of 2009/03, Insteon is fully supported for open source on unix or windows, but for this you must use a P(ower)L(ine)M(odem) (not a serial or USB PLC) and use it with misterhouse.

A favorite site of mine is Linux Home Automation. Decent amounts of good information.
I am of the opinion that Home Automation isn't as far along as it should be.

http://tinyurl.com/yg7pqg9 That should get you reasonably close

Etch the 1s and 0s into a steel plate. Then seal it in one of those food vacuum seal bags. Then put that bag in another bag.

That should do it. It'll last forever, and can be manually recovered easily.

Side note:
This was on the bottom of the page: " There's nothing like a girl with a plunging neckline to keep a man on his toes. "