The browser integration is arguably as valuable as the multi-device syncing. They also have sharing features so that you can share certain passwords with other people.

I use an MVNO (puppy wireless) on verizon's network. Downside vs. vzw branded: no international coverage (incl canada, presumably mexico), no visual voice mail on iphone. Customer service mediocre, but i have had a couple problems and they have come through.

Upside vs. vzw branded: It's really cheap. $10/mo for a basic plan, and $.015/mb $.015/min $.01/txt PAYG. Or $30/mo for 1.5GB, 750min, 750txt.

MVNO's are by nature a little flakey, and i've seen warnings on web forums about the puppy operator being a previous scam artist. I've used it for a couple years with no issues.

Not quite a home haunt, and unfortunately I didn't take pictures, but I saw a guy driving a tardis down the street. He was following his kids as they did their trick or treating. He had built it using an electric wheelchair as the base. I don't give a crap about Dr Who but even I thought it was awesome. At one point he got out, said his wife had called and the lasers weren't working at home, told the kids to drive the tardis, and ran home. Unfortunately I didn't catch where he lived and we didn't see the house on our rounds.

My daughter (11) has done several classes and camps at gamestart. She produced some working code for a minor plugin on python, and in their more advanced class wrote a plugin in Java. She's mostly lost interest in the coding, but I don't think that's Gamestart's fault. They also have some digital art classes using photoshop & doing 2d & 3d animation - she's done some of that and enjoyed it.

The EPA recommends no more than .001 mg/kg/day of cadmium in food. The average male adult in the US weighs 195 lb (88.5 kg). For that person the limit translates to .09 mg/day.

It is an open question whether that is really a safe long term limit, as these things do tend to accumulate in the body.

Soylent 1.5 has 21.39g (.021 mg) of cadmium per 500 calorie serving. So, as per the EPA standard, if that person ate mostly soylent, 4 servings per day (2000 calories), you would have .084 mg of cadmium, right below acceptable limit.

Note the definition of mg/kg/day is how many mg of something you can consume per kg of body mass. The soylent guy's google spreadsheet reports mg/kg of the toxic substances in the soylent itself, which is irrelevant. This suggests that he doesn't understand what he is talking about. What a surprise.

The catalogs aren't available from the linked site, but archive.org has them. I'm having a great geek-out reading them.

Are those imperial or metric shitloads?

you can do this, but you lose a lot of quality. YOu are taking a lossy-compressed file, uncompressing it, and then lossy-compress it again. Without the original full version the lossy compression ends up worse.

They have not changed the App/home screen management options for iphones & ipads. You still can't resize the viewable area so you can see ALL of your iphone screens. It uses something like 640x480 on my 1920x1200 monitor. There is still no logical link from managing your apps on your device to managing your local app library. I have some crappy old app, i see it in the iphone management screen. I think, i should delete that. The only way to do so is exit the screen to go manage my local library, and delete it there. I haven't tested this for sure, but I bet there is still no way to save a layout/set of apps and locations. More times than I'd like I've had to do a full reset, and then manually rearrange all my apps. Doing a restore from backup is not a solution; that restores whatever was borked, requiring a reset.

Network Documentation Tool

"Netdot is an open source tool designed to help network administrators collect, organize and maintain network documentation."

https://osl.uoregon.edu/redmine/projects/netdot

https://osl.uoregon.edu/redmine/projects/netdot/wiki

rsync can handle hard links, yes.

What is difficult is that there are so many hard links and so many seeks required that it takes way too long to be practical.

~@backup3% df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3.7G 313M 3.4G 9% /backuppc

backuppc is backup software that does file-level deduplication via hard links on its backup store. Despite the name's suggestion that it is for backing up (presumably windows) PCs, it's great with *nix.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Its primary disadvantage is the logical consequence of all those hard links. Duplicating the backup store, so you can send it offsite, is basically impossible with filesystem-level tools. You have to copy the entire filesystem to the offsite media, typically with dd.

It also can make your life difficult if you're trying to restore a lot of data all at once, like after a disaster. You take your offsite disks that you've dd' copied, hook them up, and start to run restores.

The hard links mean lots and lots of disk head seeks, so you are doing random i/o on your restore. This is really slow. If I ever have to do this, my plan is to buy a bunch of SSD's to copy my backup onto. Since there are no seeks on SSDs it will be much faster.

"software activation" appears to be required for some features, but i've been running dd-wrt for years with no activation. I have the impression that dd-wrt has a wider hardware support base as well.

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/01/0081345

the visual design is worse; definitely way too much white space. It's also not really fresh; at first look it looks like you just re-skinned the existing design with different fonts and boxes. text has a minimum width rather than flowing when i narrow my browser. That width is wider than optimal for easy reading. I'm blown away that you override default font sizes. un-f-ing believable. On the non-negative side, I don't notice the bloat or any performance issues that others have mentioned. I have plenty of bandwidth, and i am not using noticeable CPU (safari/osx/core2-2.4).