sounds great, but i'm afraid that this is the reality: http://haxe.org/forum/thread/2988

So ?

which leaves you back to your desk working :-(

The whole "ideas are worth nothing" never made a lot of sense.

You know that's not what he's saying/implying right? edit: Okay did a double take: What determines if it was the idea or execution?

I never got the hacker obsession with idea vs execution. It seems fairly obvious to me that you need both to succeed?

Most of us have plenty of ideas and not enough time to execute most of them. So we're more impressed when someone shows us something cool that's actually usable rather than another article about how someone had a vague idea for a cool thing that's supposed to become practical in another 10 years, but which we doubt will ever actually get produced.

In short, it's a lot easier to come up with an idea when you don't have to actually do the work to make it feasible. See also: "I have an idea, I just need a programmer or two."

yeah, but it makes sense to focus on the bottlenecks.

crashplan is having a sale until tuesday, after that their regular prices will go up. http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl

i chose crashplan over mozy, after reading some bad mozy reviews (http://wonko.com/post/it_turns_out_mozy_isnt_so_hot_after_al... for instance) . I have the family plan and uploaded 200gb so far, their upload speeds are pretty good.

The only feature I'm still waiting for, is so you can specify different backup sets to archive to your local HD and to their online sevice, but that feature should be realeased with their next update. Other than that I love crashplan, especially the eature that you cannot disable it for longer than 24 hours.

You can also seed your initial backup, that way you don't have long upload times.

Interesting, but I note the article is three years old?

Does anybody know how this works for Europe? Going through the list at http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html I see European companies, but isn't the DCMA only a US thingy?

filevault & crashplan.com

i use filevault on osx. just remember that timemachine & filevault don't play along well. you will have to log out of your account to backup your home directory, defeating the whole timemachine purpose. i'd recommend crashplan.com in this case.

late 2007 mbp?

If i didn't have the three year warranty i could have thrown mine away:

1. the NVIDIA chip died > screen goes black: known issuse: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

basically if you have one of those macbooks, it will most likely die sooner or later, if it dies within the first three years you're lucky.

2. the trackpad stops working > known issue: the topcase needs to be replaced.

3. cd drive stopped working... well.

bad quality basically. but i would probably buy one again, because there are no slim pc-notebooks.

Linode doesn't say how much CPU you get, where other hosts (like vps.net) tell you. Isn't that an important info?

From http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-do-i-get-my-fair-share-of-... , they state that you get access to the full CPU of the box (if idle/best case), or access to your fair share of the CPU (if fully loaded/worst case). For the smallest plans this could mean 1/40th the overall CPU if under load. They only put accounts of the same size on each machine.

yeah i saw that, but still. how much is my minimum share? i scanned their site and couldn't find any hardware info, perhaps i'm missing it - maybe it's not really that important since i get to use more than the minimum if the CPU isn't maxed out.

Linode host boxen have dual quad core processors. Each Linode has access to 4 cores.

For their smallest plan (512MB/$19.95 a month), there are an average of 40 Linodes per box. So, on paper, you are "guaranteed" 1/20 of 4 cores. In reality (according to Linode staff), most host boxes are for all intents and purposes idle most of the time, so if you need to, you can max out those 4 cores.

i hope you're getting a good bonus for that!