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My work setup is nowhere near that crazy...

I have:

* (laptop)
* 20" Cinema Display (the SWOP certification makes it worth while)
* USB hub, connects to display
* 400GB USB drive (video & print projects really chew up drive space)
* 60GB iPod (have to have music to get through my day)
* Panatone huey PRO (USB gadget used for monitor calibration and automatic adjustments for light level changes)
* Bluetooth keyboard
* Bluetooth mouse

None of which sound as much fun as an engraver.

I'm sure there used to be a fourth thing on the USB hub under the desk, but damned if I can remember what it is.

Both of the games I own (Call of Duty 3, got at the same time as the PS3 in December last year; Resistance: Fall of Man, got just recently) are 720p - which is HD. 720p looks great on the 32" LCDs I've played it on.

I got it mostly to play movies.

No A2DP is kind of sad - I wonder if they can add that by a software update? (I wonder... does OS X support A2DP?). MMS? I've sent one in the 4 years I've owned MMS capable phones. Sample size is limited, but none of my friends in NZ, Canada or the UK have either. Of course that doesn't mean anything, but to (presumably) a sizeable chunk that won't matter at all. Battery life... that'll be 100 before it starts not lasting as long, not before it dies. All of my phones have tended to not last as long after 100 charges, but then I've never had one for longer than 14 months so I've never replaced a battery either.

You pay more for fewer? I pay O2 £35/month (USD $69.81) and get 600 minutes and 500 text messages. Of course, O2 are the devil, but still. Of course my plan doesn't include data (t-mobile is the devil who gets that cheque), but I don't pay for that anyway.

phreaks wrote:

Not trying to hijack this thread, but it got me wondering...

Since Solaris is now free, why aren't people using it in-place of various linux distros?

Is *nix generally thought of as being *better* than Solaris 10?

Of course Solaris 10 is a *nix...

I've played with OpenSolaris in a virtual machine (enough to verify I could deploy my rails web app, including all it's image manipulation and API libraries), and to be honest for non-full time sysadmins, it's not that compelling.

For those of us who run web/database/*nix based application servers, then dtrace and zones are definitely interesing, but then at my work we're still running on RHEL, because it works and (for us) it works well. (Except my PABX servers, they run Debian)

For personal stuff I still greatly prefer the wonderful package management system in Debian. OpenSolaris is getting better, but has nowhere near the breadth of packages available.

Easiest way is to use PuTTY (free!) to access it via SSH. There are options that'll let you get at X, VNC probably being the easiest to setup on the PC, but there are X servers available for windows (to connect to the X client on the linux box; yeah server & client roles are slightly confusing with X11), but for the life of me I can't remember their names.

iTunes embedding your Apple ID & Name on tracks you've purchased, that are clearly licensed for personal use only? Who exactly would this be taking the shine off for? The people who were going to buy tracks just to share on p2p networks?

Just because someone isn't doing the technical side doesn't mean what they're doing isn't important. Not just talking Scoble, but if you're ever in the process of recovering from a failure always, and I mean always, give credit to those who bring you drinks, run you around, keep everyone else off your back, and generally make it so you can focus only on doing the recovery. Otherwise they won't be there next time...

Your best bet is to use DNS to lookup the MX record for the domain part of an email address. What method are you using to send? Surely it's easier to use an existing SMTP transport (surely there is a library for .NET that sends emails...) that will take care of mapping a domain to its MX.

I'd say, with almost 100% certainty, that whoever made the screenshots for the page used Paint.NET to crop the images. Nothing nefarious here...